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Years active
  
1976–present

Role
  
Actress

Name
  
Isabella Rossellini

Isabella Rossellini ISABELLA ROSSELLINI ROOM Verdoux
Full Name
  
Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini

Born
  
18 June 1952 (age 71) (
1952-06-18
)
Rome, Italy

Occupation
  
Actressfilmmakerauthormodelphilanthropist

Partner(s)
  
David Lynch (1986–91)Gary Oldman (1994–96)

Siblings
  
Ingrid Rossellini, Pia Lindstrom

Spouse
  
Jonathan Wiedemann (m. 1983–1986), Martin Scorsese (m. 1979–1982)

Movies and TV shows
  
Similar People
  
Ingrid Bergman, Roberto Rossellini, Ingrid Rossellini, Elettra Rossellini Wiedemann, Pia Lindstrom

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Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini (born 18 June 1952) is an Italian actress, filmmaker, author, philanthropist, and model. Rossellini is noted for her 14-year tenure as a Lancome model, and for her roles in films such as Blue Velvet and Death Becomes Her. She has been nominated for a Golden Globe for her performance in Crime of the Century (1996).

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Background and early life

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Rossellini was born in Rome, the daughter of Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman, of Swedish and German descent, and Italian director Roberto Rossellini, who was born in Rome from a family originally from Pisa, Tuscany. She has three siblings from her mother: her twin sister Isotta Ingrid Rossellini, who is an adjunct professor of Italian literature; a brother, Robertino Ingmar Rossellini; and a half-sister, Pia Lindstrom, who formerly worked on television and is from her mother's first marriage with Petter Lindstrom. She has four other siblings from her father's two other marriages: Romano (died at age nine), Renzo, Gil, and Raffaella.

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Rossellini was raised in Rome, as well as in Santa Marinella and Paris. She underwent an operation for appendicitis at the age of five. At 11, she was diagnosed with scoliosis. In order to correct it, she had to undergo an 18-month ordeal of painful stretchings, body casts, and surgery on her spine using pieces of one of her shin bones. Consequently, she has permanent incision scars on her back and shin.

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At 19, she went to New York, where she attended Finch College, while working as a translator and a RAI television reporter. She also appeared intermittently on L'altra Domenica ("The Other Sunday"), a TV show featuring Roberto Benigni. However, she did not decide to stay full-time in New York until her marriage to Martin Scorsese (1979–1982).

Modeling

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At the age of 28, her modeling career began, when she was photographed by Bruce Weber for British Vogue and by Bill King for American Vogue. During her career, she has also worked with many other renowned photographers, including Richard Avedon, Steven Meisel, Helmut Newton, Peter Lindbergh, Norman Parkinson, Eve Arnold, Francesco Scavullo, Annie Leibovitz, Denis Piel, and Robert Mapplethorpe. Her image has appeared on such magazines as Marie Claire, Harper's Bazaar, Vanity Fair, and Elle. In March 1988, an exhibition dedicated to photographs of her, called Portrait of a Woman, was held at the Musee d'Art Moderne in Paris.

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Rossellini's modeling career led her into the world of cosmetics, when she became the exclusive spokesmodel for the international cosmetics brand Lancome in 1982, replacing Nancy Dutiel in the United States and Carol Alt in Europe. At Lancome, in 1990, she was involved in product development for the fragrance Tresor. In 1996, when she was 44, she was removed as the face of Lancome for being "too old."

In October 1992, Rossellini modelled for Madonna's controversial book Sex. Rossellini also appeared in Madonna's music video for her successful Top 5 hit song "Erotica", released in the autumn/fall of 1992. In 1995, Rossellini worked with the Coty Group and developed her own brand of cosmetics, "Isabella Rossellini's Manifesto". She is signed to Trump Model Management.

Rossellini was the inaugural brand ambassador for the Italian Silversea Cruises company in 2004, and she appeared in print ads and on their website. Barbara Muckermann, the senior vice-president of worldwide marketing and communications in 2004, said at the time of the announcement, "Isabella is the ideal personification of Silversea's exclusive standard of elegance, glamour and sophistication."

Film and television

Rossellini made her film debut with a brief appearance as a nun opposite her mother in the 1976 film A Matter of Time. Her first role was the 1979 film Il Prato, and then in 1980 she appeared in Renzo Arbore's film Il pap'occhio with Martin Scorsese.

Following her mother's death in 1982, Rossellini was cast in her first American film, White Nights (1985). This was followed by her notable role as the tortured nightclub singer Dorothy Vallens in the David Lynch film Blue Velvet, in which she also contributed her own singing. Other significant film roles during this period include her work in Cousins (1989), Death Becomes Her (1992), Fearless, and Immortal Beloved (1994). In 1996, she appeared as herself in an episode of the TV series Friends called "The One With Frank Jr."

In 2003, Rossellini was a recurring character on the television series Alias. In that same year, she also appeared in the Canadian film The Saddest Music in the World, directed by Guy Maddin. In 2004, she played the High Priestess Thar in the Sci-Fi Channel miniseries Legend of Earthsea, and director Robert Lieberman stated that Rossellini "brings a very big persona to the screen. She carries a great deal of beauty. We needed someone who had a feeling of authority to be this kind of mother superior type and at the same time not be totally dour and unattractive."

In 2006, Rossellini appeared in several television documentaries. First, she narrated a two-hour television special on Italy for the Discovery Channel's Discovery Atlas series. Then, alongside Segway PT inventor Dean Kamen, she spoke about her past and current activities on an episode of Iconoclasts'', a series that featured on the Sundance Channel (known as SundanceTV from 2014 onwards), an independent film network founded by film industry veteran Robert Redford. The Sundance Channel then purchased the 2006 Guy Maddin-directed short film My Dad Is 100 Years Old, a tribute that Rossellini created for her father. In the film, she played almost every role, including Federico Fellini, Alfred Hitchcock, and her mother Ingrid Bergman. Rossellini's twin sister, Isotta Ingrid, criticized the short film, calling it an "inappropriate" tribute.

In 2007, Rossellini guest starred on two episodes of the television show 30 Rock, playing Alec Baldwin's character's ex-wife. Around the same time, Rossellini enrolled at Hunter College in New York, US to study Animal Behavior, and the Sundance Channel commissioned her to contribute a short-film project to the environmental program The Green. Rossellini explained in a 2013 interview:

They contacted me again when they had allocated some money to experiment in making a web series. At first, I thought I didn't know what to say, I didn't know what to write and then thought it might be really fun to do little short films about animals. This is how the first three episodes of Green Porno came about. When I showed them the pilot, Sundance commissioned eight more. It was a huge hit!

Debuting in 2008, the first series of Green Porno garnered over 4 million views on YouTube and two further seasons were produced; there is a total of 18 episodes in the series. Rossellini worked with a small budget for Green Porno and she was responsible for the scripts, helped to design the creatures, directed the episodes, and is the primary actor in the series. In each of the episodes Rossellini acts out the mating rituals and reproductive behaviour of various animals while commentary is concurrently played.

Green Porno was followed by two other animal-themed television productions: Seduce Me: The Spawn of Green Porno and Mammas. Seduce Me: The Spawn of Green Porno is a five-episode online series that premiered in mid-2010 and explores the topic of animal courtship—as with Green Porno, Rossellini wrote, directed, and acted in the series (she is also a producer of the series). Rossellini explained in 2010, " I always wanted to make films about animals there's not an enormous audience, but there's an enormous audience for sex."

Mammas debuted in the United States on 12 May 2013, Mother's Day weekend, and is a celebration of the maternal aspects of the animal world. Rossellini is again the primary actor and plays the maternal versions of animals such as spiders and hamsters. Rossellini explained in a 2013 interview part of the research process for Mammas: "First of all it's about diversity. When talking about motherhood, I would find examples of ten different species that either don't get pregnant in the belly but in the mouth or back. Or species that abandon their children all-together so that I don't tell ten stories that are too similar."

Since the completion of her Green Porno productions, Rossellini acted in the film Enemy, alongside Jake Gyllenhaal, which was shown at the 2013 Toronto Film Festival (TIFF). Rossellini praised the film during a TIFF interview: "I love the subtlety of the film. It reminded me of Kafka. It’s very metaphysical, but yet it’s also a solid thriller. It made me leap up out of my seat at the end." Rossellini also plays silent film actor Rudolph Valentino's mother in Vlad Kozlov's Silent Life, a feature-length version of the director’s silent, black-and-white short film Daydreams of Rudolph Valentino. Kozlov's film was due for release in 2012, but, as of February 2014, the film has not been officially released.

Rossellini was the President of the Jury for the 61st Berlin International Film Festival in 2011. In April 2015 she was announced as the President of the Jury for the Un Certain Regard section of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.

Writing

Rossellini has written three books: her self-described fictional memoir, Some of Me (1997), Looking at Me (on pictures and photographers, 2002), and In the name of the Father, the Daughter and the Holy Spirits: Remembering Roberto Rossellini (2006). In the name of the Father, the Daughter and the Holy Spirits: Remembering Roberto Rossellini was published as a written tribute alongside the short film, My Dad Is 100 Years Old, and used the script from the short film as its basis.

As an accompaniment to the third series of Green Porno, Rossellini produced a multimedia collection that contains a book and DVD, both of which serve as additional information for the series' third season, that was released in 2008.

Stage and live performance

In 2004, Rossellini acted in an Off-Broadway production of Terrence McNally's The Stendhal Syndrome, alongside Richard Thomas.

Rossellini's friend Carole Bouquet, also a model who later became an actress, suggested that Green Porno could be transformed into a lecture format with a longer duration. Bouquet then introduced Rossellini to French filmmaker and screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere, and the pair created a 70-minute-long monologue that expands upon the Green Porno films. The structure of the performance is in accordance with the types of reproductive systems:

Some animals reproduce with male and female; some animals change sex – they start female and they end male or vice-versa. Some fish do that. Some animals are hermaphrodites – they don’t need anybody, they have both vaginas and penises. Then we have animals that don’t need sex at all, they just clone themselves.

In the live show, Rossellini explores the topics of homosexuality (“I think society has made the mistake of seeing the act of making love or mating as an act of reproduction, when actually it is used for other things, too. Animals use it for social events, bonding, solving conflict and so on.") and maternal instincts, and has explained that her research has influenced her perspective on societal notions of beauty: "If you look at nature, there is no perfection. Everything is always evolving and adapting according to whatever the environmental pressure. The more diversity there is, the more things are going to survive."

Rossellini debuted the live version of Green Porno at the Adelaide Festival of Arts on 15 March 2014 and was warmly received by the audience. The show was the first of the 2014 program to sell out.

Activism

Rossellini is involved in conservation efforts. She is the current president and director of the Howard Gilman Foundation—a leading institution focused on the preservation of wildlife, arts, photography and dance—and she previously was a board member of the Wildlife Conservation Network. She received $100,000 from Disney to help with her conservation efforts in those two organizations. She has also helped with the Central Park Conservancy, and is a major benefactor of the Bellport-Brookhaven Historical Society of Bellport, Long Island, where she is a part-time resident.

Rossellini is involved in training guide dogs for the blind. She is a former trustee of the George Eastman House and a 1997 George Eastman Award honoree for her support of film preservation. She is also a National Ambassador for the U.S. Fund for UNICEF.

Awards

Rossellini received a 1987 Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead for her role in Blue Velvet. In 1997, she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV for her role in Crime of the Century and an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her work on the television series Chicago Hope. Also in 1997, Rossellini was awarded The George Eastman Award. In 1998, she received an Honourable Mention at the 48th Berlin International Film Festival for her role in the film Left Luggage. At the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival she is to be awarded with the Berlinale Camera.

Personal life

Rossellini holds dual Italian and United States citizenship.

She was married to Martin Scorsese from 1979 to 1982. After her marriage to Scorsese ended, she married Jon Wiedemann (1983–1986), a Harvard-educated and former fashion model from Texas (now a Microsoft design manager). Later, she dated David Lynch, Gary Oldman and Gregory Mosher.

She has a daughter, Elettra Rossellini Wiedemann (born 1983) and a son, Roberto (born 1993).

She has always lived near her twin sister Isotta Ingrid, while growing up in Rome, Italy or residing in New York City, US. Because of this, her twin sister's children Tommaso and Francesca grew up closely with their Cousins Elettra and Roberto.

Filmography

Actress
-
Arrivederci (announced) as
Francesca
-
Conclave (filming) as
Sister Agnes
-
La chimera (post-production)
-
Silent Retreat (post-production) as
Michelle Keaton
2023
Spaceman (post-production)
2023
Silent Life: The Story of the Lady in Black (post-production) as
Gabriella Guglielmi
2023
Problemista as
Narrator
2023
Cat Person as
Dr. Enid Zabala
2022
Los Espookys (TV Series) as
Isabella Rossellini
- El Eclipse (The Eclipse) (2022) - Isabella Rossellini
2022
Julia (TV Series) as
Simone 'Simca' Beck
- Chocolate Souffle (2022) - Simone 'Simca' Beck
- Breads (2022) - Simone 'Simca' Beck
- Omelette (2022) - Simone 'Simca' Beck
2021
Wuthering Cats - Floodland (Video short)
2021
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On as
Connie (voice)
2021
Land of Dreams as
Jane
2020
The Owl House (TV Series) as
Bat Queen
- Hunting Palismen (2021) - Bat Queen (voice)
- Escape of the Palisman (2020) - Bat Queen (voice)
- Lost in Language (2020) - Bat Queen (voice)
2021
Domina (TV Series) as
Balbina
- Rise (2021) - Balbina
2020
The Rabbit Hunters (Short) as
Fellini
2019
Preludio (Short)
2019
Tuca & Bertie (TV Series) as
Pat
- The Jelly Lakes (2019) - Pat (voice)
2018
Vita & Virginia as
Lady Sackville
2018
LEGO The Incredibles (Video Game) as
Ambassador (voice)
2018
Incredibles 2 as
Ambassador (voice)
2016
Shut Eye (TV Series) as
Rita Marks
- There's No Place Like Home (2017) - Rita Marks
- Vérité (2017) - Rita Marks
- Karma Chameleon (2017) - Rita Marks
- Purple Hearts (2017) - Rita Marks
- Crimes and Punishments (2017) - Rita Marks
- Charles the Magnificent (2017) - Rita Marks
- Are You Listening? (2017) - Rita Marks
- Guys and Dolls (2017) - Rita Marks
- Shortchanged (2017) - Rita Marks
- We're Not in Kansas Anymore (2017) - Rita Marks
- Ace of Swords (2016) - Rita Marks
- Wheel of Fortune (2016) - Rita Marks
- Five of Cups (2016) - Rita Marks
- Two of Swords (2016) - Rita Marks
- Judgment (2016) - Rita Marks
- The Magician (2016) - Rita Marks
- The Tower - Reversed (2016) - Rita Marks
- The Hanged Man (2016) - Rita Marks
- The Fool (2016) - Rita Marks
- Death (2016) - Rita Marks
2015
Joy as
Trudy
2015
Closet Monster as
Buffy (voice)
2014
Blue Velvet Lost Footage as
Dorothy Vallens
2013
Mammas (TV Series short) as
isabella Rossellini
- Maternal Instinct (2013) - isabella Rossellini
- Le pluvier siffleur (2013)
- Le coléoptère de pétrole (2013)
- Le passereau (2013)
- Le crapaud du Surinam (2013)
- Le poisson cichlide (2013)
- Le hamster (2013)
- L'araignée (2013)
- Le coucou (2013)
- La guêpe (2013)
- L'instinct maternel (2013)
2013
The Blacklist (TV Series) as
Floriana Campo
- The Freelancer (No. 145) (2013) - Floriana Campo
2013
Enemy as
Mother
2012
Treme (TV Series) as
Theresa Talarico
- I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say (2012) - Theresa Talarico
2012
The Zigzag Kid as
Lola
2012
The Dandelions as
Madame Trebla
2011
Keyhole as
Hyacinth
2011
Chicken with Plums as
Parvine
2011
Late Bloomers as
Mary
2010
Bon appétit! (TV Short)
2010
The Solitude of Prime Numbers as
Adele
2008
Green Porno (TV Series) as
Male Whale / Male Bee
- Whale (2009) - Male Whale
- Worm (2008)
- Snail (2008)
- Mantis (2008)
- Fly (2008)
- Bee (2008) - Male Bee
- Spider (2008)
- Firefly (2008)
- Dragonfly (2008)
2009
The Phantom (TV Mini Series) as
Dr. Bella Lithia
- Episode #1.2 (2009) - Dr. Bella Lithia
- Episode #1.1 (2009) - Dr. Bella Lithia
2009
Flat Love (Short) as
Narrator (voice)
2009
My Dog Tulip as
Ms. Canvenini (voice)
2009
Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair (Short) as
Woman
2008
Infected (TV Movie) as
Carla Plume
2008
Two Lovers as
Ruth Kraditor
2008
The Accidental Husband as
Mrs. Bollenbecker
2007
30 Rock (TV Series) as
Bianca
- Up All Night (2007) - Bianca
- Black Tie (2007) - Bianca
2006
Filthy Gorgeous (TV Movie) as
Antonia
2006
Brand Upon the Brain! as
Narrator (voice)
2006
Infamous as
Marella Agnelli
2006
The Architect as
Julia Waters
2005
A Life in Suitcases as
Mme. Moitessier
2005
La fiesta del Chivo as
Urania
2004
Alias (TV Series) as
Katya Derevko
- The Descent (2005) - Katya Derevko
- Pandora (2005) - Katya Derevko
- Resurrection (2004) - Katya Derevko
- Legacy (2004) - Katya Derevko
- Crossings (2004) - Katya Derevko
2005
Heights as
Liz
2005
Earthsea (TV Mini Series) as
Thar
- Episode #1.2 (2005) - Thar
- Episode #1.1 (2005) - Thar
2004
The Stendhal Syndrome (Video) as
Tour Guide
2004
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish as
Mme Moitessier
2004
King of the Corner as
Rachel Spivak
2004
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea as
Mme. Moitessier
2003
The Saddest Music in the World as
Lady Helen Port-Huntley
2003
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story as
Mme. Moitessier
2003
Monte Walsh (TV Movie) as
'Countess' Martine
2002
Napoléon (TV Mini Series) as
Joséphine de Beauharnais
- 1812-1821 (2002) - Joséphine de Beauharnais
- 1807-1812 (2002) - Joséphine de Beauharnais
- 1800-1807 (2002) - Joséphine de Beauharnais
- 1795-1800 (2002) - Joséphine de Beauharnais
2002
Roger Dodger as
Joyce
2002
Empire as
La Colombiana
2000
Il cielo cade as
Katchen
2000
Don Quixote (TV Movie) as
The Duchess
1999
The Simpsons (TV Series) as
Astrid Weller
- Mom and Pop Art (1999) - Astrid Weller (voice)
1998
The Impostors as
The Veiled Queen
1998
Merlin (TV Mini Series) as
Nimue
- Part 2 (1998) - Nimue
- Part 1 (1998) - Nimue
1998
Left Luggage as
Mrs. Kalman
1997
Ceremony of Innocence (Video Game) as
Sabine Strohem (voice)
1992
The Odyssey (TV Mini Series) as
Athena
- Part II (1997) - Athena
- Part I (1992) - Athena
1997
Chicago Hope (TV Series) as
Prof. Marina Giannini
- Mother, May I? (1997) - Prof. Marina Giannini
- Missed Conception (1997) - Prof. Marina Giannini
1996
Goosebumps: Escape from Horrorland (Video Game) as
Lady Cadaver
1996
Friends (TV Series) as
Isabella Rossellini
- The One with Frank Jr. (1996) - Isabella Rossellini
1996
Crime of the Century (TV Movie) as
Anna Hauptmann
1996
The Funeral as
Clara
1996
Big Night as
Gabriella
1995
Croce e delizia as
Henriette
1995
Tales from the Crypt (TV Series) as
Betty Spinelli
- You, Murderer (1995) - Betty Spinelli
1994
Immortal Beloved as
Anna Marie Erdödy
1994
Dave Stewart: Jealousy (Music Video short) as
Wife
1994
The Gift (TV Movie) as
Gabriella
1994
Wyatt Earp as
Big Nose Kate
1993
Fearless as
Laura Klein
1993
The Innocent as
Maria
1993
Fallen Angels (TV Series) as
Babe Lonsdale
- The Frightening Frammis (1993) - Babe Lonsdale
1992
Death Becomes Her as
Lisle Von Rhuman
1991
Caccia alla vedova as
Rosanna
1991
Lies of the Twins (TV Movie) as
Rachel Marks
1990
Dames galantes as
Victoire
1990
Ivory Hunters (TV Movie) as
Maria DiConti
1990
Wild at Heart as
Perdita
1989
The Tracey Ullman Show (TV Series) as
Mae / Ilenia
- Ginny Eats Escrow (1990) - Mae
- My Date with Il Duce (1989) - Ilenia
- -And God Created Tillman (1989) - Mae
1989
Cousins as
Maria / Tom's wife
1988
Red Riding Hood as
Lady Jean
1988
Zelly and Me as
Mademoiselle
1987
Siesta as
Marie
1987
Tough Guys Don't Dance as
Madeleine / Tim's ex-girlfriend
1987
Oci ciornie as
La Signora (uncredited)
1986
Blue Velvet as
Dorothy Vallens
1985
White Nights as
Darya Greenwood
1980
Il pap'occhio as
Isabella
1979
Il prato as
Eugenia
1976
A Matter of Time as
Sister Pia
1976
L'Altra Domenica (TV Series)(1976-1979)
Director
2013
Mammas (TV Series short) (11 episodes)
- Maternal Instinct (2013)
- Le pluvier siffleur (2013)
- Le coléoptère de pétrole (2013)
- Le passereau (2013)
- Le crapaud du Surinam (2013)
- Le poisson cichlide (2013)
- Le hamster (2013)
- L'araignée (2013)
- Le coucou (2013)
- La guêpe (2013)
- L'instinct maternel (2013)
2011
Animals Distract Me (Documentary)
2010
Bon appétit! (TV Short)
2010
Seduce Me (TV Series)
2010
Isabella Rossellini - Aus dem Leben eines Schmetterlings (TV Movie documentary)
-
Green Porno (TV Series) (9 episodes, 2008 - 2009) (co-director - 1 episode, 2009)
- Why Vagina (2009) - (co-director)
- Whale (2009)
- Worm (2008)
- Snail (2008)
- Mantis (2008)
- Fly (2008)
- Bee (2008)
- Spider (2008)
- Firefly (2008)
- Dragonfly (2008)
2006
Oh La La (Short)
Writer
2015
Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno Live (TV Movie documentary) (monologues written by)
2013
Mammas (TV Series short) (10 episodes)
- Le pluvier siffleur (2013)
- Le coléoptère de pétrole (2013)
- Le passereau (2013)
- Le crapaud du Surinam (2013)
- Le poisson cichlide (2013)
- Le hamster (2013)
- L'araignée (2013)
- Le coucou (2013)
- La guêpe (2013)
- L'instinct maternel (2013)
2011
Animals Distract Me (Documentary) (written by)
2010
Seduce Me (TV Series)
2008
Green Porno (TV Series) (writer - 8 episodes)
- Worm (2008) - (writer)
- Snail (2008) - (writer)
- Mantis (2008) - (writer)
- Fly (2008) - (writer)
- Bee (2008) - (writer)
- Spider (2008) - (writer)
- Firefly (2008) - (writer)
- Dragonfly (2008) - (writer)
2005
My Dad Is 100 Years Old (Documentary short)
Producer
2013
Burt's Buzz (Documentary) (executive producer)
2010
Seduce Me (TV Series) (producer)
2008
Green Porno (TV Series) (producer - 10 episodes)
- Why Vagina (2009) - (producer)
- Whale (2009) - (producer)
- Worm (2008) - (producer)
- Snail (2008) - (producer)
- Mantis (2008) - (producer)
- Fly (2008) - (producer)
- Bee (2008) - (producer)
- Spider (2008) - (producer)
- Firefly (2008) - (producer)
- Dragonfly (2008) - (producer)
Camera Department
2005
Kill Gil Volume 1 (Documentary) (videographer)
1999
My Voyage to Italy (Documentary) (still photographer)
Costume Department
1972
Augustine of Hippo (TV Movie) (assistant costumes)
1972
Blaise Pascal (TV Movie) (assistant costumes)
Soundtrack
1988
Red Riding Hood (performer: "You Won't Be Here in the Morning")
1986
Blue Velvet (performer: "Blue Star", "Blue Velvet")
Miscellaneous
1993
Rossellini visto da Rossellini (Documentary) (footage courtesy of)
Thanks
2020
Weather Report (TV Series) (happy birthday - 1 episode)
- 6/18/20 (2020) - (happy birthday)
2019
La Boîte à curiosités (TV Series documentary) (thanks - 4 episodes)
- La reproduction de la Baudroie abyssale (2020) - (thanks)
- Les super-pouvoirs du Tardigrade (2020) - (thanks)
- La chorégraphie de l'araignée paon (2020) - (thanks)
- La reproduction de la limace léopard (2019) - (thanks)
2009
La pacificazione (Short) (thanks)
2007
Rossellini - Bergman, l'amour du cinéma (TV Movie documentary) (special thanks)
2006
No Day But Today: The Story of 'Rent' (Video documentary) (special thanks)
2005
Game 6 (very special thanks)
1996
Ingrid Bergman Remembered (TV Movie documentary) (thanks)
1995
The Crypt Keeper Presents: A Spine-Tingling Look at Tales from the Crypt (Documentary short) (special thanks)
1984
Ingrid (Documentary) (thanks)
Self
2022
Heirloom (Documentary short) as
Self
2022
Live with Kelly and Mark (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Isabella Rosellini/Maia Mitchell/Live's Foodfluencer Friday Face-Off (2022) - Self - Guest
2021
Italia. Il fuoco, la cenere (Documentary) as
Narrator (voice)
2021
The Holstein Dilemma (Documentary) as
Self
2021
Corona Film Club (Documentary) as
Self
2021
Pompeii: Sin City (Documentary) as
Self - Presenter
1986
Domenica in (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 24 January 2021 (2021) - Self
- Episode dated 2 December 2018 (2018) - Self
- Domenica in 1986 (1986) - Self
2018
Skavlan (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Avsnitt 11 (2020) - Self - Guest
- Linn och Leo Wågberg/Erling Kagge/Janne Josefsson/Isabella Rossellini (2018) - Self - Guest
2020
The Rossellinis (Documentary) as
Self
2020
Paolo Conte, via con me (Documentary) as
Self
2020
Leçon de cinéma (TV Mini Series) as
Self
- Isabella Rossellini (2020) - Self
2020
Quotidien (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 3 March 2020 (2020) - Self
2020
Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful (Documentary) as
Self
2020
Overheard (TV Series) as
Self - Interviewee
- Isabella Rossellini (2020) - Self - Interviewee
2019
Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (TV Series documentary) as
Self - Guest
- Hollywood Royalty (2019) - Self - Guest
2019
American Style (TV Series documentary)
- 21st Century Vogue (2019)
- War Boots to Work Suits (2019)
2018
Dolce&Gabbana: Spring/Summer 2019 Women's Fashion Show (Video short) as
Self - Model
2018
Ok! TV (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode #3.205 (2018) - Self
2018
Working in the Theatre (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Theatrical Animals (2018) - Self
2018
Imagine (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Ingrid Bergman in Her Own Words (2018) - Self - Guest
2017
Larger Than Life: The Kevyn Aucoin Story (Documentary) as
Self
2017
The Gospel According to André (Documentary) as
Self
2017
Le cinéma dans l'oeil de Magnum (TV Movie documentary) as
Self - Interviewee
2016
Red Carpet Report (TV Series short) as
Self
- Premiere of Shut Eye (2016) - Self
2016
Blue Velvet Revisited (Documentary) as
Self
2016
Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider (Documentary) as
Self
2016
Master of Photography (TV Series) as
Self - host
- Places and Faces (2016) - Self - host
- Home Sweet Home (2016) - Self - host
- Irish Landscape (2016) - Self - host
- London Backstage (2016) - Self - host
- Celebrity Portrait (2016) - Self - host
- The Body (2016) - Self - host
- Berlin Nightlife (2016) - Self - host
- The Beauty of Rome (2016) - Self - host
2016
Koko: The Gorilla Who Talks to People (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
2016
Così parlò De Crescenzo (Documentary) as
Self
2016
Joy, Strength and Perseverance (Documentary short) as
Self
2016
Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn (Documentary) as
Ingrid Bergman (voice)
2016
LA Times: The Envelope (TV Series) as
Self
- Supporting Actress Roundtable (2016) - Self
2016
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode #3.3 (2016) - Self
2015
Good Morning America (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Episode dated 29 December 2015 (2015) - Self - Guest
2015
Made in Hollywood (TV Series) as
Self
- Joy/Daddy's Home/Point Breaks (2015) - Self
2015
Reel Pieces with Annette Insdorf (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- David O. Russell and Isabella Rossellini on Joy (2015) - Self - Guest
- David O. Russell and Isabella Rossellini (2015) - Self - Guest
2015
Entertainment Tonight (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 14 December 2015 (2015) - Self
2015
The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Maddin (Documentary)
2014
Talk Stoop (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Royals (2015) - Self - Guest
- Legends (2014) - Self - Guest
2015
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words (Documentary) as
Self
2015
Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno Live (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
2014
Senza Lucio (Documentary) as
Self
2014
Last Call with Carson Daly (TV Series) as
Self - Closet Monster
- Isabella Rossellini/Jessimae Peluso/The Acid (2014) - Self - Closet Monster
2014
My Italian Secret: The Forgotten Heroes (Documentary)(voice)
2013
Ingrid and Isabella Rossellini on Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini (Documentary short) as
Self
2013
Trespassing Bergman (Documentary) as
Self - Interviewee
2013
Ce soir (ou jamais!) (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 24 May 2013 (2013) - Self
2013
C à vous (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 22 May 2013 (2013) - Self
2013
Morgenmagazin (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 8 February 2013 (2013) - Self
2012
Bergmans video (TV Mini Series documentary) as
Self
- Exclusion (2012) - Self
2012
Bam150 (Documentary)
2012
About Face: Supermodels Then and Now (Documentary) as
Self
2011
9-11 Memories (TV Mini Series documentary short) as
Self
2011
L'era legale as
Self
2011
CBS News Sunday Morning (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Episode dated 17 July 2011 (2011) - Self - Guest
- Episode dated 10 April 2011 (2011) - Self - Guest
2011
Na Nai'a: Legend of the Dolphins (Documentary) as
Narrator (voice)
2009
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Episode #7.140 (2011) - Self - Guest
- Episode #5.128 (2009) - Self - Guest
2011
Court-circuit (TV Series) as
Self
- Schwerpunkt Isabella Rossellini (2011) - Self
2011
Animals Distract Me (Documentary) as
Self / Darwin
2010
Arcimboldo: Nature and Fantasy (Video documentary short)(voice)
2010
Quel Pap'occhio di 30 anni fa (Video documentary) as
Self
2010
Paavo, a Life in Five Courses as
Self
2010
Seduce Me (TV Series) as
Self - Host
2010
Isabella Rossellini - Aus dem Leben eines Schmetterlings (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
2010
Che tempo che fa (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 30 January 2010 (2010) - Self
2009
Green Porno (TV Series) as
Self - Host
- Why Vagina (2009) - Self - Host
2009
The Hour (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Episode dated 9 November 2009 (2009) - Self - Guest
2009
The Graham Norton Show (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Episode #6.4 (2009) - Self - Guest
- Episode #5.11 (2009) - Self - Guest
2009
Beckmann (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 19 October 2009 (2009) - Self
2009
Madonna: Celebration - The Video Collection (Video) as
Self (segment "Erotica")
2006
Il était une fois... (TV Mini Series documentary) as
Self
- Les enchaînés (2009) - Self
- Sailor et Lula (2009) - Self
- Rome, ville ouverte (2006) - Self
2009
La traversée du désir (Documentary) as
Self
2008
Cinema 16 World Short Films as
Self
2008
Rachael Ray (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Episode #2.175 (2008) - Self - Guest
2008
AFI's 10 Top 10: America's 10 Greatest Films in 10 Classic Genres (TV Special) as
Self
2008
Jimmy Kimmel Live! (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Episode #6.70 (2008) - Self - Guest
2008
Shootout (TV Series) as
Self
- Tribeca Film Festival (2008) - Self
1993
Late Show with David Letterman (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
2008
Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies (Documentary) as
Self
2008
Festival Updates (TV Series) as
Self (2008)
2007
Giganten (TV Series) as
Self
- Beethoven - Genie am Abgrund (2007) - Self
2007
The Last Jews of Libya (Documentary) as
Narrator (voice)
2006
Kill Gil, Volume 2 (Documentary) as
Self
2006
Iconoclasts (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Isabella Rossellini & Dean Kamen (2006) - Self
2006
Sartoria Tirelli - Vestire il cinema (Documentary) as
Narrator (voice)
2006
Discovery Atlas (TV Series documentary) as
Narrator
- Italy Revealed (2006) - Narrator (voice)
2006
Richard & Judy (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Episode dated 3 July 2006 (2006) - Self - Guest
1995
Charlie Rose (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Episode dated 23 May 2006 (2006) - Self - Guest
- Episode dated 9 April 2004 (2004) - Self - Guest
- Episode dated 13 June 1997 (1997) - Self - Guest
- Episode dated 3 January 1995 (1995) - Self - Guest
1993
Corazón, corazón (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 25 February 2006 (2006) - Self
- Episode dated 24 October 1999 (1999) - Self
- Episode dated 21 September 1996 (1996) - Self
- Episode dated 6 November 1993 (1993) - Self
2005
Icons (TV Series) as
Self
- Isabella Rossillini (2005) - Self
2005
Kobra (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Mödrar (2005) - Self
2005
Art in the Twenty-First Century (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Memory (2005) - Self
2005
My Dad Is 100 Years Old (Documentary short) as
Isabella Rossellini / Alfred Hitchcock / David O. Selznick / ...
2005
Kill Gil Volume 1 (Documentary) as
Self
2005
Notes on My Father: An Interview with Isabella Rossellini (Video documentary short) as
Self
2004
Pas de Deux: Making 'White Nights' (Video documentary short) as
Self
2004
The Daily Show (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Isabella Rossellini (2004) - Self - Guest
2004
Pulse (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Episode #3.4 (2004) - Self
2004
The Ellen DeGeneres Show (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Episode #1.143 (2004) - Self - Guest
2003
Larry King Live (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Episode dated 4 December 2003 (2003) - Self - Guest
2003
Teardrops in the Snow: The Making of 'The Saddest Music in the World' (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
2003
Tribeca Film Festival Presents (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
2003
Until the Violence Stops as
Self
2003
Na plovárne (TV Series) as
Self
- Na plovárne s Isabellou Rossellini (2003) - Self
2002
Film Genre (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- World War Two (2002) - Self
2002
Leute heute (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Episode dated 4 November 2002 (2002) - Self
2002
Gero von Boehm begegnet... (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Isabella Rossellini (2002) - Self
2002
Mysteries of Love (Video documentary) as
Self
2002
Kulturzeit (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 16 April 2002 (2002) - Self
2002
Die Harald Schmidt Show (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Episode dated 9 April 2002 (2002) - Self - Guest
2001
Gomorron (TV Series) as
Self
- Malou möter Isabella Rossellini (2001) - Self
2001
Først & sist (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode #6.4 (2001) - Self
2001
Mein Leben (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Isabella Rossellini (2001) - Self
2001
Nulle part ailleurs cinéma (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 4 April 2001 (2001) - Self
2001
Roberto Rossellini: Frammenti e battute (Documentary) as
Self
1997
The Rosie O'Donnell Show (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Episode dated 30 March 2001 (2001) - Self - Guest
- Episode dated 27 April 1998 (1998) - Self - Guest
- Episode #1.230 (1997) - Self - Guest
2001
The 10 Commandments of Creativity (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
1999
Mundo VIP (TV Series) as
Self
- Show nº229 (2000) - Self
- Show nº176 (1999) - Self
2000
Nulle part ailleurs (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 2 October 2000 (2000) - Self
1995
Intimate Portrait (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Laura Dern (1999) - Self
- Ingrid Bergman (1995) - Self
1999
Boulevard Bio (TV Series) as
Self
- Frauen am Rande des Nervenzusammenbruchs (1999) - Self
1994
Late Night with Conan O'Brien (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Isabella Rossellini/Eric Idle/Tom Shillue (1999) - Self - Guest
- Isabella Rossellini/David Arquette/Cake (1998) - Self - Guest
- Isabella Rossellini/Jerry O'Connell/The Derailers (1998) - Self - Guest
- Isabella Rossellini/Thomas Haden Church/Jeffrey Ross (1997) - Self - Guest
- Isabella Rossellini/Art Buchwald/Jeff Stilson (1996) - Self - Guest
- Isabella Rossellini/Burt Ward/Dr. John (1995) - Self - Guest
- Isabella Rossellini/Bill Geist/Combustible Edison (1994) - Self - Guest
- Isabella Rossellini/Dave Foley/Jonathan Richman (1994) - Self - Guest
1999
Wild City (TV Movie documentary) as
Self - Hostess
1998
The Magical Making of Merlin (TV Short documentary) as
Self - 'Nimue'
1998
World Fashion Premiere from Paris (TV Movie documentary) as
Self - Hostess
1997
Roberto Rossellini: Il mestiere di uomo (Documentary) as
Self / presenter
1988
La nuit des Césars (TV Series documentary) as
Self / Self - Presenter
- 22ème nuit des Césars (1997) - Self
- 13ème nuit des Césars (1988) - Self - Presenter
1997
54th Golden Globe Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Nominee
1996
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Episode #4.225 (1996) - Self - Guest
1996
Omnibus (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Eve Arnold in Retrospect (1996) - Self
1996
Ingrid Bergman Remembered (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
1995
The Crypt Keeper Presents: A Spine-Tingling Look at Tales from the Crypt (Documentary short) as
Self
1995
Lauren Hutton and... (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Isabella Rossellini (1995) - Self - Guest
1995
Showbiz Today (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 16 July 1995 (1995) - Self
1995
Taxi (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 11 June 1995 (1995) - Self
1994
HBO First Look (TV Series documentary short) as
Self / Anna Marie Erdödy
- Beethoven's Untold Love Story: The Making of 'Inmortal Beloved' (1994) - Self / Anna Marie Erdödy
1993
John & Leeza from Hollywood (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode #1.11 (1993) - Self
1992
Sex (Video documentary) as
Self
1992
Madonna: Erotica (Music Video) as
Self
1983
Late Night with David Letterman (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Episode dated 12 August 1992 (1992) - Self - Guest
- Episode dated 20 August 1991 (1991) - Self - Guest
- Episode dated 11 December 1990 (1990) - Self - Guest
- Episode dated 27 April 1989 (1989) - Self - Guest
- Episode dated 21 November 1983 (1983) - Self - Guest
1992
Blast 'Em (Documentary) as
Self (uncredited)
1992
The 57th Annual New York Film Critics Circle Awards (TV Special) as
Self
1991
The Fifth Annual Genesis Awards (TV Special) as
Self
1991
Wogan (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode #11.128 (1991) - Self
1991
The 6th Annual Independent Spirit Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Presenter
1987
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (TV Series) as
Self - Guest / Self
- James Woods, Isabella Rossellini, The Trinity Irish Dancers (1991) - Self - Guest
- Martin Short/Isabella Rossellini/Gene Fleming (1989) - Self
- Episode #26.128 (1987) - Self - Guest
1990
Cinémode (TV Series documentary) as
Self - Host
- Episode dated 14 December 1990 (1990) - Self - Host
1987
Cannes Film Festival (TV Series) as
Self - Audience Member / Self - Presenter
- Cérémonie de clôture du 43ème festival de Cannes (1990) - Self - Audience Member
- Cérémonie de clôture du 42ème festival de Cannes (1989) - Self - Presenter
- Cérémonie d'ouverture du 40ème festival de Cannes (1987) - Self - Audience Member
1990
Arena (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Roberto Rossellini (1990) - Self
1988
Lunettes noires pour nuits blanches (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 12 November 1988 (1988) - Self
1988
No Frank in Lumberton (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
1987
The 1987 IFP/West Independent Spirit Awards (TV Special) as
Self
1987
The 59th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Presenter
1987
C'est encore mieux l'après-midi (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 15 January 1987 (1987) - Self
1983
Nöjesmaskinen (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Episode #3.4 (1983) - Self - Guest
1982
The Merv Griffin Show (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Episode dated 12 November 1982 (1982) - Self - Guest
1981
The 53rd Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
1980
Les rendez-vous du dimanche (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 30 March 1980 (1980) - Self
1980
Il resto del Pap'occhio (Video) as
Self
1976
Film '72 (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode #5.35 (1976) - Self
1953
Kort möte med familjen Rossellini (Short) as
Self
Archive Footage
2021
Morceaux de Cannes (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
2019
The Development of: Fearless (Video short) as
Self
2019
Milk (Documentary) as
Self
2018
Hollywood, No Sex Please! (Documentary) as
Dorothy Vallens
2015
Entertainment Tonight (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 19 December 2015 (2015) - Self
2013
Welcome to the Basement (TV Series) as
Madeleine Regency
- Ishtar (2015) - Madeleine Regency
- Bedazzled (2013) - Madeleine Regency
- Tough Guys Don't Dance (2013) - Madeleine Regency
2015
The Wolfpack (Documentary) as
Self (uncredited)
2014
The Greatest 80s Movies (TV Movie documentary) as
Self (1986)
2013
Massimo racconta Troisi (Documentary) as
Self (uncredited)
2013
Dai nostri inviati: La Rai racconta la Mostra del cinema di Venezia 1980-1989 (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
2011
Dai nostri inviati: La Rai racconta la Mostra del cinema 1968-1979 (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
2009
The Graham Norton Show (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode #6.12 (2009) - Self
2006
Marcello Mastroianni: Il fascino discreto della normalità (Documentary) as
Self
2005
De Caunes/Garcia - Le meilleur de Nulle Part Ailleurs 2... suite et fin! (Video) as
Self
2005
80s (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Episode #1.4 (2005) - Self (uncredited)
2005
Premio Donostia a Willem Dafoe (TV Special) as
Perdita (uncredited)
2005
Cinema mil (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Episode #1.1 (2005) - Self
2004
Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche (TV Movie documentary) as
Lady Port-Huntley
2002
Heart of the Festival (TV Movie) as
Self
1999
Biography (TV Series documentary) as
Self - Ingrid Bergman's Daughter
- Ingrid Bergman: A Passionate Life (1999) - Self - Ingrid Bergman's Daughter
1993
Rossellini visto da Rossellini (Documentary) as
Self
1987
¡Qué noche la de aquel año! (TV Series) as
Darya Greenwood
- Episode dated 24 November 1987 (1987) - Darya Greenwood (uncredited)

References

Isabella Rossellini Wikipedia