Isabella Rossellini - Wikipedia

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Isabella Rossellini - Wikipedia
Isabella Rossellini
Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini
Isabella Rossellini
(Italian: [izabˈɛlla ros͡ sellˈinɪ]; born 18 June 1952)[1] is an
Italian-American actress. The daughter of Swedish actress
Ingrid Bergman and Italian film director Roberto Rossellini,
she is noted for her successful tenure as a Lancôme model.
She gained recognition as an actress after her breakthrough

role in David Lynch's Blue Velvet (1986) for which she
received the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead.
Other notable films include Cousins (1989), Wild at Heart
(1990), Death Becomes Her (1992), Fearless (1993), Wyatt
Earp (1994), Big Night (1996), Roger Dodger (2002),
Infamous (2006), Two Lovers (2008), Enemy (2013), Joy
(2015), and La chimera (2023). She is also known for her
voice roles in Incredibles 2 (2018), and Marcel the Shell with
Shoes On (2021).
Rossellini received a Golden Globe Award nomination for the

HBO movie Crime of the Century (1996). She received a Rossellini at the 2015 Cannes Film
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a
Festival
Drama Series nomination for Chicago Hope (1997). She also
has guest starred in the sitcoms Friends and 30 Rock as well Born Isabella Fiorella
as the dramas Alias and The Blacklist. She portrayed Simone Elettra Giovanna
Beck in the HBO series Julia (2022). Rossellini
18 June 1952
Early life Rome, Italy
Citizenship Italian · American
Rossellini was born in Rome, the daughter of Swedish actress Occupation Actress
Ingrid Bergman, who was of Swedish and German descent,
and Italian director Roberto Rossellini, who was born in Rome Years active 1976–present
from a family originally from Pisa, Tuscany. She has three Spouses Martin Scorsese
siblings from her mother: her fraternal twin sister Isotta
(m. 1979; div. 1982)
Rossellini, who is an adjunct professor of Italian literature; a
Jonathan
brother, Robertino Ingmar Rossellini;[2] and a half-sister, Pia Wiedemann
Lindström, who formerly worked on television and is from her
(m. 1983; div. 1986)
mother's first marriage with Petter Lindström. She has four
other siblings from her father's two other marriages: Romano Partners David Lynch (1986–
(who died at age nine), Renzo, Gil, and Raffaella.[3] Growing 1991)
up, she received "a liberal Catholic education".[4] Gary Oldman (1994–
1996)
Rossellini was raised in Rome, as well as in Santa Marinella
and Paris. She underwent an operation for appendicitis at the Children 2, including Elettra
age of five.[5] At 11, she was diagnosed with scoliosis.[6] In Rossellini
order to correct it, she had to undergo an 18-month ordeal of Wiedemann
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painful stretchings, body casts and surgery on her spine using Parents Roberto Rossellini
pieces of one of her shin bones. Consequently, she has incision (father)
scars on her back and shin.
Ingrid Bergman
At 19, she went to New York City, where she attended Finch (mother)
College, while working as a translator and as a television Relatives Pia Lindström
reporter for RAI.[7] She also appeared intermittently on
(maternal half-sister)
L'altra Domenica (The Other Sunday), a TV show featuring
Roberto Benigni. However, she decided not to stay full-time in Renzo Rossellini
New York until her marriage to Martin Scorsese (1979–1982), (paternal half-brother)
whom she met when she interviewed him for RAI.[8]
Career
Modeling
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.
Rossellini's modeling career led her into the world of cosmetics, when she became the exclusive
spokesmodel for the French cosmetics brand Lancôme in 1982, replacing Nancy Dutiel in the
United States and Carol Alt in Europe. At Lancôme, in 1990, she was involved in product
development for the fragrance Trésor. In 1996, when she was 43, she was removed as the face of
Lancôme for being "too old". In 2016, at the age of 63, she was rehired by Lancôme's new female
CEO, Francoise Lehmann, as a global brand ambassador for the company.[9]
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 autumn
1992.[10]
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."[11][12]
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 (1993), 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 the
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 Rossellini on location at Tempelhof
kind of mother superior type and at the same time not be Airport in Berlin in 1992 to shoot
some scenes for the film The
totally dour and unattractive."[13]
Innocent
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.[14] The
Sundance Channel then purchased the 2006 Guy Maddin-directed short film My Dad Is 100 Years
Old,[15] 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,[16] criticized the short film, calling it an "inappropriate" tribute.[17]
In 2007, Rossellini guest starred on two episodes of the television show 30 Rock, playing Alec
Baldwin's character's ex-wife.[18] Around the same time, Rossellini enrolled at Hunter College in
New York to study animal behavior, and the Sundance Channel commissioned her to contribute a
short-film project to the environmental program The Green.[15] 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![15]
Debuting in 2008, the first series of Green Porno had over

4 million views on YouTube and two further seasons were
produced; there are 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, she acts out the mating rituals and reproductive
behaviour of various animals while commentary is played.[19]
Rossellini worked on Green Porno
with Jody Shapiro. 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 was 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."[20]
Mammas debuted in the United States on 12 May 2013, Mother's Day

weekend there, 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.[21] 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."[15]
After the completion of her Green Porno productions, Rossellini acted in

Rossellini at the 2013
the film Enemy, with Jake Gyllenhaal, which was shown at the 2013
Toronto Film Festival
Toronto International 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 played the silent film actor Rudolph
Valentino's mother[22] in Vlad Kozlov's Silent Life, a feature-length version of the director's silent,
black-and-white short film Daydreams of Rudolph Valentino.[23] Kozlov's film was due for release
in 2012, but, as of February 2014, the film has not been officially released.[24]
Rossellini was the President of the Jury for the 61st Berlin International Film Festival in 2011.[25]
In April 2015, she was announced as the President of the Jury for the Un Certain Regard section of
the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.[26]
In 2016, Rossellini was cast as Rita Marks, the matriarch of the Marks crime family in the Hulu
original series, Shut Eye.
Stage and live performance

In 2004, Rossellini acted in an Off-Broadway production of Terrence McNally's The Stendhal
Syndrome, with Richard Thomas.[27]
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 the French filmmaker and screenwriter, Jean-Claude Carrière, and they
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.[19]
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."[19]
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.[28] Much of the production and backstage documentary footage was shot and directed by her
nephew, Tommaso Rossellini.
Rossellini's "smallest circus in the world", a stage play exploring the ability of animals to think,
was premiered in May 2018, at the Jerome Robbins Theater of the Baryshnikov Arts Center. The
play "addresses the scientific discoveries about animal minds, intelligence, and emotions. Joined
onstage by various animals portrayed by Pan, her trained dog, Rossellini transforms herself into
Aristotle, Descartes, B.F. Skinner, Charles Darwin, and more, to deliver a vivid monologue about
the brilliance of the animal kingdom".[29]
Rossellini performed "Link Link Circus" (as in Ring Ring) as a benefit for The Gateway Performing
Arts Center of Suffolk County, in Bellport, New York, the south shore Long Island village where
she is a local organic farmer. "Link Link Circus" is performed by Rossellini in a black and red
ringmaster's tailcoat, with the assistance of her dog, Peter Pan, who performs a few tricks and is
costumed as other animals including a chicken and a dinosaur. In addition to Rossellini and Pan,
the production includes puppets, handled by puppeteer Schuyler Beeman, and still photos, home
movies, animation and excerpts from her "Green Porno" film series projected on a large screen
behind the set decorated with Rossellini's childhood toys, including a marionette stage and a toy
upright piano, which Rossellini plays in the show. The set was designed by Andy Byers, who is also
the costume designer and composer for the show. In promoting the show, which was performed
twice at The Gateway, Rossellini appeared in Long Island's Newsday.[30] Proceeds from The
Gateway production of "Link Link Circus" also benefited The Plaza Cinema & Media Arts Center, a
non-profit located near Rossellini's Bellport home in Patchogue, New York.
Rossellini has been a frequent guest narrator at Disney's Candlelight Processional at Walt Disney
World, most recently appearing in the 2019 and 2022 seasons. [31]
Activism
Rossellini is involved in conservation efforts. She is the president and director of the Howard
Gilman Foundation — a leading institution focused on the preservation of wildlife, arts,
photography and dance[32] — and she has been a board member of the Wildlife Conservation
Network.[33] She received US$100,000 from Disney to help with her conservation efforts in those
two organizations.[34] She has also helped with the Central Park Conservancy,[35] and is a major
benefactor of the Bellport-Brookhaven Historical Society in Bellport, Long Island, where she is a
part-time resident.[36]
Rossellini is involved in training guide dogs for the blind.[37] She is a former trustee of the George
Eastman House and a 1997 George Eastman Award honoree for her support of film
preservation.[38] She is also a National Ambassador for the U.S. Fund for UNICEF.[39]
Personal life
Rossellini holds dual Italian and United States citizenship.[11][40]
She was married to filmmaker Martin Scorsese from 1979 to 1982.[41] After her marriage to
Scorsese ended, she was married to Jon Wiedemann from 1983 to 1986.[42]
She has a daughter, Elettra Rossellini Wiedemann[12] (born

1983) and an adopted son, Roberto Rossellini (born 1993).[43]
Filmmaker David Lynch and Rossellini were a couple from

1986/1987 to 1990/1991. Rossellini was engaged to English
actor Gary Oldman from 1994 to 1996.[44]
Rossellini with David Lynch at the

Cannes Film Festival (1990)
She has always lived near her fraternal twin sister Isotta Ingrid,[16] while growing up in Rome,
Italy or residing in New York City.
Filmography
Film
Year Title Role Notes
1976 A Matter of Time Sister Pia

1979 The Meadow Eugenia
1980 In the Pope's Eye Isabella
1985 White Nights Darya Greenwood

1986 Blue Velvet Dorothy Vallens
Tough Guys Don't Dance Madeleine Regency

1987
Siesta Marie
1988 Zelly and Me Mademoiselle Zelly
Cousins Maria
1989
Red Riding Hood Lady Jean
Wild at Heart Perdita Durango

1990
Dames Galantes Victoire
1991 Caccia Alla Vedova Rosanna
1992 Death Becomes Her Lisle von Rhuman
The Pickle Planet Cleveland Woman Uncredited

1993 The Innocent Maria
Fearless Laura Klein
Wyatt Earp Big Nose Kate

1994
Immortal Beloved Anne Marie
1995 Croce e delizia Henriette
Big Night Gabriella

1996
The Funeral Clara
Left Luggage Mrs. Kalman

1998
The Impostors The Veiled Queen
2000 Il Cielo cade Kathcen
Empire La Colombiana
2002
Roger Dodger Joyce
The Tulse Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story Mme. Moitessier
2003
The Saddest Music in the World Lady Helen Port-Huntley
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vauz to the Sea Mme. Moitessier
2004 Heights Liz
King of the Corner Rachel Spivak

La Fiesta Del Chivo Urania

2005
My Dad Is 100 Years Old Herself
The Architect Julia Walters
2006
Infamous Marella Agnelli
2007 The Last Jews of Libya Narrator

2008 The Accidental Husband Mrs. Bollenbecker
Two Lovers Ruth Kraditor

2009
My Dog Tulip Ms. Cavenenini Voice
2010 The Solitude of Prime Numbers Adele
Keyhole Haycinth
Chicken with Plums Parvine

2011
Silent Life Gabriella
Late Bloomers Mary
2013 Enemy Mother

2014 The Zigzag Kid Lola
Closet Monster Buffy Voice

2015
Joy Trudy
Incredibles 2 Ambassador Henrietta Selick Voice

2018
Vita & Virginia Lady Sackville
2019 Preludio- Il Film Voice
Land of Dreams Jane

2021
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On Connie Voice
Cat Person Dr. Enid Zabala
Problemista Narrator
La Chimera Completed
2023
Silent Retreat Michelle Keaton Post-production
Spaceman TBA Post-production
Conclave Sister Agnes Filming
Television
1989– The Tracey Ullman

Mae 3 episodes
1990 Show
1990 Ivory Hunters Maria DiConti Television movie

1991 Lies of the Twins Rachel Marks Television movie
1993 Fallen Angels Babe Lonsdale Episode: "The Frightening Frammis"
1994 The Gift Gabriella Television movie
1995 Tales from the Crypt Betty Spinelli Episode: "You, Murderer"
1996 Friends Herself Episode: "The One with Frank Jr."

1996 Crime of the Century Anna Hauptmann Television movie
1997 Chicago Hope Professor Marina Giannini 2 episodes
1997 The Odyssey Athena Miniseries; 2 episodes

1998 Merlin Nimue Miniseries; 2 episodes
1999 The Simpsons Astrid Weller (voice) Episode: "Mom and Pop Art"
2000 Don Quixote The Duchess Television movie

Joséphine de
2002 Napoléon 4 episodes
Beauharnais
2003 Monte Walsh Countess Martine Television movie
2004 Earthsea Thar Miniseries; 2 episodes

2004–
Alias Katya Derevko 5 episodes
2005
2006 Infected Carla Plume Television movie
2006 Filthy Gorgeous Antonia Television movie

2007 30 Rock Bianca Donaghy 2 episodes
2008– Various animals and

Green Porno 18 episodes
2009 insects
2009 The Phantom Dr. Bella Lithia 2 episodes
Episode: "I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden

2012 Treme Theresa
Say"
2013 The Blacklist Floriana Campo Episode: "The Freelancer"

2016–
Shut Eye Rita Marks 20 episodes
2017
2019 Tuca & Bertie Pat (voice) Episode: "The Jelly Lakes"
2020–
The Owl House Bat Queen (voice) 3 episodes
2021
2021 Domina Balbina Episode: "Rise"
2022 Julia Simone Beck 3 episodes
2022 Los Espookys Herself Episode: "El Eclipse (The Eclipse)"
Video games
1996 Goosebumps: Escape from Horrorland Lady Cadaver Voice role
1997 Ceremony of Innocence Sabine Strohem Voice role
Music videos
1992 "Erotica" Herself Cameo
Accolades
Also in 1997, Rossellini was awarded The George Eastman Award.[45] In 1998, she received an
Honourable Mention at the 48th Berlin International Film Festival for her role in the film Left
Luggage. In 2013, she was awarded with the Berlinale Camera at the 63rd Berlin International
Film Festival. In 2016, she was granted an honorary doctorate by the Université du Québec à
Montréal.[46]
Year Association Category Work Result Ref.
1986 Independent Spirit Award Best Female Lead Blue Velvet Won [47]
Best Actress in a Mini-Series or Crime of the [48]

1996 Golden Globe Award Nominated
Television Film Century
Outstanding Guest Actress in a [49]

1997 Primetime Emmy Award Chicago Hope Nominated
Drama Series
1998 Special Mention Left Luggage Honored [50]

Berlin International Film
Festival [51]
2013 Berlinale Camera Honored
Bibliography
Rossellini has written three books:
Some of Me (1997)
Looking at Me (2002)
In the name of the Father, the Daughter and the Holy Spirits: Remembering Roberto Rossellini
(2006).
The latter 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.[52] To accompany the third series of Green
Porno, Rossellini produced a multimedia collection that contains a book and DVD, both of which
give additional information for the series' third season. These were released in 2008. Further
backstage material was released filmed by her nephew, Tommaso.[53]
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oclaststv.com/). Iconoclasts. Sundance Channel L.L.C. Archived from the original (http://www.ic
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Rossellini, Isabella (1997). Some of Me (https://archive.org/details/someofme00ross). New
York: Random House. ISBN 0-679-45252-4.
Rossellini, Isabella (2002). Looking at Me: On Pictures and Photographers. Munich: Schirmer
Art. ISBN 3-8296-0057-7.
Rossellini, Isabella (2006). In the Name of the Father, the Daughter and the Holy Spirits:
Remembering Roberto Rossellini. London: Haus Publishing. ISBN 1-904950-91-4.
External links
The Babelgum Metropolis Art Prize, of which Isabella Rossellini is the head judge. (https://web.
archive.org/web/20100223083731/http://www.babelgum.com/metropolisartprize)
Isabella Rossellini (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000618/) at IMDb
Isabella Rossellini (https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/165789%
7C*) at the TCM Movie Database
Isabella Rossellini (https://www.fashionmodeldirectory.com/models/isabella_rossellini/) at
Fashion Model Directory
Isabella Rossellini (https://web.archive.org/web/20070926235740/http://www.lortel.org/LLA_arc
hive/index.cfm?search_by=people&first=Isabella&middle=&last=Rossellini) at the Internet Off-
Broadway Database (http://www.iobdb.com)
Interview with Isabella Rossellini before the release of The Saddest Music in the World. (http://
ae.philly.com/entertainment/ui/philly/film.html?id=127217&reviewId=15096)
Interview with Isabella Rossellini after 14 years with Lancôme (https://web.archive.org/web/200

71014065938/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1285/is_n2_v26/ai_18082731/pg_1)
Graham Fuller, "It's a family affair" (http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,,20728
28,00.html), The Guardian, 5 May 2007. (Interview with Isabella Rossellini about her career
and her parents' legacy.)
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She gained recognition as an actress after her breakthrough

Rossellini received a Golden Globe Award nomination for the

Film and television

film roles during this period include her work in Cousins

In 2003, Rossellini was a recurring character on the television

Debuting in 2008, the first series of Green Porno had over

Mammas debuted in the United States on 12 May 2013, Mother's Day

After the completion of her Green Porno productions, Rossellini acted in

Stage and live performance

She has a daughter, Elettra Rossellini Wiedemann[12] (born

Filmmaker David Lynch and Rossellini were a couple from

Rossellini with David Lynch at the

Year Title Role Notes

1976 A Matter of Time Sister Pia

1980 In the Pope's Eye Isabella

1985 White Nights Darya Greenwood

Tough Guys Don't Dance Madeleine Regency

Wild at Heart Perdita Durango

1992 Death Becomes Her Lisle von Rhuman

The Pickle Planet Cleveland Woman Uncredited

Fearless Laura Klein

Wyatt Earp Big Nose Kate

1995 Croce e delizia Henriette

Big Night Gabriella

Left Luggage Mrs. Kalman

King of the Corner Rachel Spivak

Year Title Role Notes

La Fiesta Del Chivo Urania

2007 The Last Jews of Libya Narrator

Two Lovers Ruth Kraditor

Chicken with Plums Parvine

Late Bloomers Mary

2013 Enemy Mother

Closet Monster Buffy Voice

Incredibles 2 Ambassador Henrietta Selick Voice

Land of Dreams Jane

Spaceman TBA Post-production

Conclave Sister Agnes Filming

Year Title Role Notes

1989– The Tracey Ullman

1990 Ivory Hunters Maria DiConti Television movie

1993 Fallen Angels Babe Lonsdale Episode: "The Frightening Frammis"

1994 The Gift Gabriella Television movie

Year Title Role Notes

1996 Friends Herself Episode: "The One with Frank Jr."

1997 Chicago Hope Professor Marina Giannini 2 episodes

1997 The Odyssey Athena Miniseries; 2 episodes

2000 Don Quixote The Duchess Television movie

2003 Monte Walsh Countess Martine Television movie

2004 Earthsea Thar Miniseries; 2 episodes

2006 Infected Carla Plume Television movie

2006 Filthy Gorgeous Antonia Television movie

2008– Various animals and

Episode: "I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden

2013 The Blacklist Floriana Campo Episode: "The Freelancer"

2022 Julia Simone Beck 3 episodes

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