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Isabella Rossellini
Isabella Rossellini is the daughter of two legends, three-time Oscar-winning Swedish-born actress Ingrid Bergman and neo-realist master Italian director Roberto Rossellini. She was debuted as a dresser in her father’s film. Then she begun a career as a journalist on Italian television while accepting small roles for directors like Vincente Minnelli and the Taviani brothers before the modeling including Lancôme she has been the face from 1983 to 1995. Shortly little, she moved to to cinema as an actress accepting roles located at the antipodes of “glamour” of the cosmetics world, Blue Velvet and Wild at Heart by David Lynch, tough Guys Do not Dance by Norman Mailer.
Isabella was married to Martin Scorsese from 1979 to 1983 and was also the companion of David Lynch, Gary Oldman and Daniel Toscan du Plantier. She was also married his second wife, Jonathan Wiedemann (also a model) and they had a daughter, Elettra , which became a model like her parents. She was also at one point a Lancome Cosmetics spokes model, the company that Isabella represented for many years. She adopted a child , Roberto. Isabella has a twin sister Isotta Rossellini, university professor of Italian literature.
Her acting career is quite intense but seems to follow no plan as it interprets the most diverse roles in the Anglo-Saxon cinema, Italian and French. On television, she appeared notably in his role in an episode of Friends and also participated in series like Alias, Life at all costs (Chicago Hope) and 30 Rock.His role in the miniseries Napoleon in 2002 Yves Simoneau, where she performed the Empress Josephine alongside Christian Clavier, Gerard Depardieu and John Malkovich is one of its main French-speaking roles.
In 2008, the actress wrote and directed a series of eight short films entitled Green Porno , in which she plays, costume, various insects to illustrate their sexual mores.
Discovered by photographer friend Bruce Weber who kick-started her modeling career.In 1983, Time magazine reported Rossellini’s modeling salary of a then $9,000 a day.
Appeared in photographs for Madonna’s coffee table book “Sex”.
Published an autobiography called “Some of me”.
Is an avid dog lover and helps train puppies for the blind.
Chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the world in 1990 and 1991 and Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history in 1995.
Jury president of the 2011 Berlin Film Festival.
Says her feminine style has been influenced by Georgia O’Keeffe and Jackie Kennedy Onassis).
Personal Quotes
— If you go to a therapist, they say, ‘Are you sure? How do you feel about your wrinkles?’ And I say, ‘I don’t know, because I don’t really see them.’ I see my hands, but I don’t see my face, so it’s not a torment. I only see it for five minutes in the morning when I brush my teeth! When you read women’s magazines you always read about this drama of getting old, about anti-aging cream and plastic surgery and whatever else. But I think if you’re independent, like I have grown to be, it’s welcome.
— When I was hot as a model, I always knew my entire schedule for the next eight months in advance, every moment was planned and filled. And this lasted for 10 years!
— There is no question for me about the Electra complex. You know, exaggerated love of the father – I have it, or some version. I loved my mother, but I was my dad’s girl.
— There’s nothing wrong with modeling, except that it doesn’t last. I had the stereotype most people have, that it’s stupid, but it wasn’t stupid at all. I loved spending a day with Richard Avedon. People who are so artistic, so intelligent — You are interpreting what they are trying to express. You have taken a trip into this brain, you are a tourist in this fantastically interesting brain. People always say to me that I do such strange films, but it’s not that I’m looking for something so different necessarily, it’s simply that I meet a person who strikes me as intelligent and interesting and I want to take a trip into their brain.
I like to see a film where I don’t need to look at the titles to know who did it, where one image is enough to say this is David Lynch, this is Alfred Hitchcock, this is Spike Lee.
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