Isabella Rossellini to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award From European Film Academy
variety.comNick Vivarelli International Correspondent Isabella Rossellini will be honoured during the upcoming European Film Awards with a lifetime achievement award celebrating her body of work as an actor and filmmaker.
The Italian model and movie star, who is the daughter of Swedish actor Ingrid Bergman and Italian director Roberto Rossellini, made her acting debut in 1979 in the Taviani brothers’ film “Il Prato” before breaking out internationally in David Lynch’s “Blue Velvet” in 1986, followed by prominent roles in films such as Taylor Hackford’s “White Nights,” Robert Zemeckis’s “Death Becomes Her,” and Peter Weir’s “Fearless,” to name a few.
Rossellini, who is 72, has more recently resurfaced as standout character actress, with meaty parts in Alice Rohrwacher “La Chimera,” alongside Josh O’ Connor, “Spaceman” with Adam Sandler and Carey Mulligan, and Edward Berger’s soon-to-be-released “Conclave” in which she plays a scene-stealing nun.
A longtime resident of Long Island, where she lives on a farm, Rossellini has a master’s degree in animal behaviour and conservation from Hunter College in New York City which served her well when she stepped behind the camera herself for “Green Porno,” “Seduce Me,” and “Mammas,” a series of funny shorts exploring the sex lives of animals.
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