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Isabella Rossellini

Bio

Isabella Rossellini as Ruth Kraditor Isabella Rossellini grew up in Paris and Rome. At the age of 19, she moved to New York, where she became a translator and later a reporter for RAI-Italian Television. Her popular segments led to appearances as the New York correspondent for the weekly Italian comedy show “The Other Sunday,â€� with Roberto Benigni. At 28, Ms. Rossellini was discovered by Bruce Weber and photographed for British Vogue. A modeling career followed, during which Ms. Rossellini worked with the industry's most distinguished photographers including Richard Avedon, Steven Meisel, Helmut Newton and Peter Lindbergh. She appeared on the cover of Vogue, Elle, Marie Claire, Bazaar and Vanity Fair and in 1988, an exhibition of her photographs titled ‘Portrait of a Woman’, was held at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris. Ms. Rossellini made her cinematic debut in 1979 in Paolo and Vittorio Taviani's Il Prato (The Meadow). Her American film debut was opposite Mikhail Baryshnikov and Gregory Hines in Taylor Hackford's White Nights. In 1986, she starred opposite Dennis Hopper as ‘Dorothy Vallens,’ the tortured lounge singer, in David Lynch's haunting and controversial Blue Velvet. She recently starred in the short film directed by Guy Maddin, My Dad Is 100 Years Old, about her father Roberto Rossellini, which she also wrote and produced. Ms. Rossellini and Maddin worked together previously on The Saddest Music in The World. Her most recent film credits include; The Architect, Luis Llosa's screen adaptation of Mario Vargas Llosa's novel “The Feast of The Goatâ€� and Doug McGrath's Infamous. She will next be seen in The Accidental Husband directed by Griffin Dunne, co-starring Uma Thurman and Colin Firth.

Appearing as:

Ruth Kraditor