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Isabella Rossellini

Acting

Born June 18, 1952 · Rome, Lazio, Italy

Also known as Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini

Biography

Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini (born June 18, 1952) is an Italian actress, filmmaker, author, philanthropist, and model. Rossellini is noted for her 14-year tenure as a Lancôme model, and for her roles in films such as Blue Velvet and Death Becomes Her.

Awards & recognition

  • European Film Academy Achievement in World Cinema Award · 2024
  • European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award · 2024
  • Rachel Carson Award · 2010
  • Nastro d'ArgentoBest New Actress · 1980
  • Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
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  • Saturn AwardBest Supporting Actress
  • Academy AwardBest Supporting Actress · 2025 · nominated
  • Golden Raspberry AwardWorst Supporting Actress · 1988 · nominated

Filmography50+ titles

A Season with Isabella Rossellini

2023as Self

The Owl House

2020as Bat Queen (voice)

Friends

1994as Isabella Rossellini

The Simpsons

1989as Astrid Weller (voice)

Tales from the Crypt

1989as Betty Spinelli

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

2021as Connie (voice)

The Blacklist

2013as Floriana Campo

Blue Velvet

1986as Dorothy Vallens

Incredibles 2

2018as Ambassador (voice)

Thus Spoke De Crescenzo

2017

30 Rock

2006as Bianca

Iconoclasts

as Self

La Chimera

2023as Flora

Julia

2022as Simone 'Simca' Beck

Conclave

2024as Sister Agnes

Paolo Conte, via con me

2020as Self

The Graham Norton Show

2007as Self

The Odyssey

1997as Athena

Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words

2015as Self

My Dad Is 100 Years Old

2006as Self / Alfred Hitchcock / David O. Selznick / Federico Fellini / Charlie Chaplin / Ingrid Bergman / Roberto Rossellini

Immortal Beloved

1994as Anna Marie Erdödy

Closet Monster

2015as Buffy (voice)

Chicken with Plums

2011as Parvine

Big Night

1996as Gabriella

Wild at Heart

1990as Perdita Durango

Blue Velvet Revisited

2016as Self

Two Lovers

2008as Ruth Kraditor

Merlin

1998as Nimue

Fearless

1993as Laura Klein

Problemista

2023as Narrator (voice)

Domina

2021as Balbina

Vita & Virginia

2018as Lady Sackville

Larger than Life: The Kevyn Aucoin Story

2017as Self

Enemy

2013as Mother

The Saddest Music in the World

2003as Lady Helen Port-Huntley

Napoléon

2002as Joséphine de Beauharnais

Alias

2001as Katya Derevko

Wyatt Earp

1994as Big Nose Kate

Death Becomes Her

1992as Lisle von Rhuman

Spaceman

2024as Commissioner Tůmová

The Zigzag Kid

2012as Lola Ciperola

The Dandelions

2012as Madame Trebla

Ingrid Bergman Remembered

1996as Self

White Nights

1985as Darya Greenwood

Joy

2015as Trudy

Trespassing Bergman

2013as Self

Dark Eyes

1987as Claudia (uncredited)

The Beauty

2026as Franny Forst

Seduce Me: Noah's Ark

2010Director

Infamous

2006as Marella Agnelli