Valeria Golino

Valeria Golino was born on Oct 22, 1965 in Italy. Valeria Golino's big-screen debut came with A Joke of Destiny, Lying in Wait Around the Corner Like a Bandit directed by Lina Wertmüller in 1983. Valeria Golino is known for Portrait of a Lady on Fire directed by Céline Sciamma, Noémie Merlant stars as Marianne and Adèle Haenel as Héloïse. Valeria Golino has got 69 awards and 78 nominations so far. The most recent award Valeria Golino achieved is David di Donatello Awards. The upcoming new movie Valeria Golino plays is The Catholic School which will be released on Sep 14, 2022.

The second child of an Italian germanist and a Greek painter, Valeria Golino grew up in Naples until her parents parted. After three years in Athens with her mother and another three in Naples with her father, she began to work as a model. She left high school after her first movie and didn't study performing arts at all. In 1985 she got the leading role in Piccoli fuochi (1985) by Peter Del Monte and the next year won the Best Actress Award at the Venice Film Festival for Storia d'amore (1986). After some European co-productions (Dernier été à Tanger (1987), Les lunettes d'or (1987), Trois soeurs (1988)) she began to work in Hollywood (Big Top Pee-wee (1988)). She soon gained prominent roles in Rain Man (1988), Hot Shots! (1991) and Hot Shots! 2 (1993). Now she works in the US (Trou de mémoire (1994), Aux portes de l'enfer (1996)), Europe (La putain du roi (1990), Ludwig van B. (1994)) and in Italy. too, especially with young directors (Comme deux crocodiles (1994), Le acrobate (1997), L'albero delle pere (1998)). In 1994 she produced and acted in I sfagi tou kokora (1996) by Greek director Andreas Pantzis. Her voice is more appreciated in Hollywood (where she took speech therapy) than in Italy (where she is sometimes dubbed); in "The Slaughter of the Cock" she acts as a deaf and dumb woman. She speaks four languages: Italian, Greek, French and English. Her brother is a musician and their uncle Enzo Golino is a famous journalist.