Valeria Golino

Infobox actor


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Valeria Golino ( _el. Βαλέρια Γκολίνο; born October 22 1966) is an Italian-Greek [ [http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/movies/127402_respiro20q.html Heavy-breathing 'Respiro' a fitting film for sexy Golino] ] film and television actress. She is perhaps best known to U.S. audiences for the Academy Award-winning film "Rain Man", and has won the David di Donatello, Silver Ribbon, and Coppa Volpi awards.

Biography

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. [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE3DB143EF935A35755C0A965958260 UP AND COMING: Valeria Golino; She Made Her Name Popping an Olive - New York Times ] ] [ [http://www.filmreference.com/film/18/Valeria-Golino.html Valeria Golino Biography (1966-) ] ] She grew up in an "artistic household" [ [http://filmfreakcentral.net/notes/vgolinointerview.htm "VIVA VALERIA!": Film Freak Central Interviews Actress Valeria Golino ] ] and was raised between Athens and Naples. [ [http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,315581,00.html VALERIA GOLINO | The Indian Runner | Close-up | Movies | Entertainment Weekly ] ] 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 movie, after having been discovered by the movie'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 love interest of Tom Cruise, and the comedy films "Hot Shots!" and "Hot Shots! Part Deux" co-starring with Charlie Sheen. She had also been considered for the starring role in "Pretty Woman", but the role went to Julia Roberts because Golino still had a prominent Italian accent.

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

Personal life

Golino speaks Italian, English, French, and Greek. She was engaged to comedian actor Paul Reubens, aka Pee-wee Herman (1987 - 1988), to actor Benicio del Toro for 4 years (1988 - 1992; they lived together in Golino's LA apartment), and to Italian sex-symbol Riccardo Scamarcio, since the spring of 2006.Fact|date=May 2008

Filmography

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

References

External links

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