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Valeria Golino

 
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Valeria Golino

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  • Born: Oct 22, 1966 in Naples, Italy
  • Occupation: Actor
  • Active: '80s-2000s
  • Major Genres: Drama, Comedy
  • Career Highlights: Leaving Las Vegas, Rain Man, Four Rooms
  • First Major Screen Credit: Detective School Dropouts (1985)

Biography

Wholesomely sexy Italian actress Valeria Golino was a teen model when she appeared in her first film, Lina Wertmuller's Joke of Destiny (1984). Conversant (if not proficient) in several languages, Golino thrived in international films bearing such provocative titles as Little Fires (1985), Last Summer in Tangiers (1987) and Love Story (1987). One of her first important American roles was as Tom Cruise's voice-of-conscience girlfriend in the Oscar-winning Rain Man (1988), after which she portrayed the trapeze artist who falls in love with Pee-Wee Herman in Big Top Pee-Wee (1988). Blessed with a subtle, sparkle-eyed sense of humor, Golino has been seen to good advantage in the adventure-film spoofs Hot Shots! (1991) and Hot Shots Part Deux (1992); her deadly serious delivery of the most ridiculous of lines ("What do you do with an elephant with three balls?") has been attributed by some to expert comic timing, and by others to Golino's alleged habit of learning her English dialogue by rote. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Valeria Golino

Golino on the red carpet at the 60th Annual Academy Awards
Born 22 October 1966 (1966-10-22) (age 43)
Naples, Italy
Years active 1983–present
Domestic partner(s) Engaged to Benicio Del Toro 1988-1992
Engaged to actor Fabrizio Bentivoglio 1993-2001
Engaged to actor Riccardo Scamarcio since April 2006

Valeria Golino (born 22 October 1966) is an Italian-Greek[1] film and television actress. She is perhaps best known to U.S. audiences for the 1988 Academy Award-winning film Rain Man and the 1988 comedy Big Top Pee-wee, and to international audiences for the Hot Shots! films alongside Charlie Sheen. She has won the David di Donatello, Silver Ribbon, and Coppa Volpi awards.

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Early life

Golino was born in Naples, Italy to an Italian father who was a Germanist and scholar and a Greek mother who was a painter; one of her grandmothers was Egyptian-French.[2][3] She grew up in an "artistic household"[4] and was raised between Athens and Naples.[5] Golino is the niece of L'Espresso journalist Enzo Golino; her brother is a musician. She started work as a model in Athens and then dropped out of high school after her first film, after having been discovered by the film's director, Lina Wertmuller.

Career

Golino obtained her first starring role in 1985's Little Fires and won the Best Actress Award at the Venice Film Festival for Storia d'amore in 1986. She began to work in Hollywood in 1988 with the movie Big Top Pee-wee and received roles in prominent films such as Rain Man, as the girlfriend of Tom Cruise, and the comedy films Hot Shots! and Hot Shots! Part Deux co-starring with Charlie Sheen.

More recently, she had a supporting role in the successful French thriller 36, Quai des Orfèvres.

Appeared in R.E.M.'s Bittersweet Me video-clip (1996).

Filmography

  • Scherzo del destino in agguato dietro l'angolo come un brigante da strada (1983)
  • Sotto... sotto (1984) - cameo
  • Blind Date (1984) - Girl in Bikini
  • Figlio mio infinitamente caro (1985) - Francesca
  • Piccoli fuochi (1985) - Mara
  • Storia d'amore (1986) - Bruna Assecondati
  • Detective School Dropouts (1986) - Caterina
  • Dernier été à Tanger (1987) - Claudia Marchetti
  • Gli occhiali d'oro (1987) - Nora Treves
  • Paura e amore (1988) - Sandra Parini
  • Big Top Pee-wee (1988) - Gina Piccolapupula
  • Rain Man (1988) - Susanna
  • Torrents of Spring (1989) - Gemma Rosselli
  • Traces of an Amorous Life (1990)
  • The King's Whore (1990) - Jeanne de Luynes
  • Hot Shots! (1991) - Ramada Thompson
  • The Indian Runner (1991) - Maria
  • Year of the Gun (1991) - Lia
  • Puerto Escondido (1992) - Anita
  • Fallen Angels (TV series) - segment Red Wind (1993) - Eugenie Kolchenko
  • Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993) - Ramada Rodham Hayman
  • Clean Slate (1994) - Sarah Novak/Beth Holly
  • Come due coccodrilli (1994) - Marta
  • Immortal Beloved (1994) - Giulietta Guicciardi
  • Submission (1995 short)
  • Leaving Las Vegas (1995) - Terri
  • Four Rooms (1995) - Athena (segment \"The Missing Ingredient\")
  • Il fratello minore (1996 short)
  • Danza della fata confetto (1996 short) - Secretary
  • Escoriandoli (1996) - Ida
  • Escape from L.A. (1996) - Taslima
  • I Sfagi tou kokora (1996)
  • An Occasional Hell (1996) - Elizabeth Laughton
  • Le Acrobate (1997) - Maria
  • Alexandria Hotel (1998) - Justine
  • L'Albero delle Pere (1998) - Silvia
  • Side Streets (1998) - Sylvie Otti
  • Spanish Judges (1999) - Jamie
  • La vita che verrà (1999 TV mini-series) - Nunzia
  • Harem Suaré (1999) - Anita
  • Tipota (1999 short) - Actress
  • To Tama (2000)
  • Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (2000) - Lilly (segment \"Goodnight Lilly, Goodnight Christine\")
  • Ivansxtc (2000) - Constanza Vero
  • Controvento (2000) - Nina
  • Hotel (2001) - Italian Actress
  • L'Inverno (2002) - Anna
  • Respiro (2002) - Grazia
  • Frida (2002) - Lupe Marín
  • Julius Caesar (2002 TV movie) - Calpurnia
  • Take Me Away (2003) - Luciana
  • San-Antonio (2004) - The Italian woman
  • Alive (2004) - Elisa
  • 36 Quai des Orfèvres (2004) - Camille Vrinks
  • Mario's War (2005) - Giulia
  • Texas (2005) - Maria
  • Olé! (2005) - Carmen Holgado
  • Il Sole nero (2006) - Agata
  • Ma place au soleil (2006)
  • Actrices (2006)
  • La ragazza del lago (2006) - Chiara
  • A Casa Nostra (2006) - Rita
  • Lascia perdere Johnny (2007)
  • Caos calmo (2008)
  • Ca$h (2008)
  • La Fabbrica dei Tedeschi (2008)
  • Giulia non esce la sera (2009)
  • Les Beaux gosses (2009)
  • L'uomo nero (2009)
  • L'amore buio (2010)
  • Laria (2010)
  • Come un soffio (2010 short)
  • Armandino e il MADRE (2010 short)

References

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  1. ^ Heavy-breathing 'Respiro' a fitting film for sexy Golino
  2. ^ Up and coming: Valeria Golino; She Made Her Name Popping an Olive - New York Times
  3. ^ Valeria Golino Biography (1966-)
  4. ^ "Viva Valeria!": Film Freak Central Interviews Actress Valeria Golino
  5. ^ Valeria Golino | The Indian Runner | Close-up | Movies | Entertainment Weekly

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