Isabella Rossellini, the Italian actress and model who has made her home in America since 1979 and holds dual Italian and American citizenship, was born cinema royalty when she made her debut on June 18, 1952 in Rome. She is the daughter of two legends, three-time Oscar-winning Swedish-born actress 'Ingrid Bergman .
In the "Tales from the Crypt" episode, "Tales from the Crypt" {You, Murderer (#6.15)} , she spoofs her mothers Casablanca image.
Born at 6:07pm-CET.
Twin sister of Isotta Rossellini , a professor of literature who has taught at Columbia, NYU, Princeton and Harvard universities.
Chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the world in 1990 and 1991.
Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#84) in 1995.
Maintains a home in the village of Bellport, Long Island, New York.
Was scheduled to appear in the David Lean -directed "Nostromo" in 1991, before Lean died, and the production came to a halt.
She suffered from scoliosis (progressive curvature of the spine) and underwent surgery to correct it. She was in a body cast for a year.
Virtually identical to her mother, Ingrid Bergman , but surprisingly had few opportunities to portray her mother in a biographical film. One occasion was an eerily accurate spoof of Ilsa Lund in an episode of "Tales from the Crypt" . More recently, in the movie My Dad Is 100 Years Old for which she wrote the script, she did a moving portrayal of her mother.
Mother of Elettra Wiedemann (born July 26, 1983) from her marriage to Jon Wiedemann. She also has an adopted son, Roberto Rossellini .
Published an autobiography called "Some of me".
Fluent in Italian, French and English.
Former model, most notably for Lancome, and former journalist for Italian television.
Half sister of Pia Lindstrm. Half sister of Renzo Rossellini. Sister of Roberto Ingmar Rossellini and twin sister of Isotta Rossellini.
She is 34 minutes older than twin sister Isotta.
Her father was Italian, born in Rome, from a family originally from Tuscany and Veneto. Her mother, who was Swedish, was born in Stockholm, to a Swedish father and a German mother.
Is the daughter of legends Roberto Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman.
Was engaged to director David Lynch from 1986 to 1990.
Her favorite Hollywood-film that her mother made is Notorious . Her favorite film of her father, made without her mother, is La prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV and Francesco, giullare di Dio .
Appeared in photographs for Madonna s coffee table book "Sex".
Her daughter Elettra Wiedemann was also at one point a Lancome Cosmetics spokes model, the company that Isabella also represented for many years.
In 1983, Time magazine reported Rossellinis modeling salary of a then $9,000 a day.
Is an avid dog lover and helps train puppies for the blind.
Is a huge fan of Buster Keaton and Charles Chaplin.
Aunt of Tommaso Rossellini , Alessandro Rossellini , Justin Daly , and Nick Daly.
Jury president of the 2011 Berlin Film Festival.
Says her feminine style has been influenced by Georgia OKeeffe and Jacqueline Kennedy (aka Jackie Kennedy Onassis).
Discovered by photographer friend Bruce Weber who kick-started her modeling career.
(February 2004) Starring on Broadway in The Stendahl Syndrome.
(January 2008) Will narrate Guy Maddin s silent film "Brand Upon the Brain" as part of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestras New Music Festival at the Winnipeg Centennial Concert Hall.
(March 2003) Winnipeg, Canada - filming Guy Maddin s The Saddest Music in the World .
(January 2009) Just finished another series of Green Porno short films for the Sundance Channel.
Her surname was originally Rosellini.
Brother, Roberto Rossellini, was engaged to Princess Caroline of Monaco in the 1980s.
Dated Gary Oldman in the 1990s. He postponed their planned wedding in order to go to rehab for substance abuse. After meeting another woman in rehab, he called their engagement off.
Has worked to preserve the films of her parents through both archival work and biographical pieces.
Considers her time with ex-boyfriend David Lynch as her "most significant relationship".
Isabella weighed 6 lbs 15 oz at birth according to the birth announcement published in the June 30th 1952 Milestones column of Time Magazine.
President of the Un Certain Regard jury at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.
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When I grew up, we always had our chickens, and we ate our eggs, and we ate our chickens. The family always had a pig, and we would kill it at Christmas and eat it for three or four months afterwards.
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I graduated from Academy of Fashion and Costume Design in Rome. At first, I thought I was going to be a costume designer for films, and then I ended up working in fashion - not as a designer, but mostly as a model.
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