Bio: Isabella Rossellini, the Italian actress and model who has made her home in America since 1979 and holds dual Italian and American citizenship, was born cinema royalty when she made her debut on June 18, 1952 in Rome. She is the daughter of two legends, three-time Oscar-winning Swedish-born actress Ingrid Bergman and neo-realist master Italian director Roberto Rossellini. She was also the third wife of Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese from 1979 to 1982 and the partner of legendary director David Lynch.She made her movie debut in Vincente Minnelli's A Matter of Time (1976), which starred her mother. She then made a couple of Italian pictures and worked as an American correspondent for Italian television network RAI before appearing in Taylor Hackford's Cold War drama White Nights (1985) in 1985. She followed that up with her most memorable role, as the abused chanteuse in Lynch's masterpiece Blue Velvet (1986), she earned an Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead. She then went on to win a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress, for her performance as Lisle, the mysterious socialite, forever in her youth in Death Becomes Her (1992). In 1997, she was nominated for an Emmy Award as Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for a guest appearance on Chicago Hope (1994).
Tivia: Is the daughter of legends Roberto Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman.Twin sister of Isotta Rossellini, a professor of literature who has taught at Columbia, NYU, Princeton and Harvard universities.She suffered from scoliosis (progressive curvature of the spine) and underwent surgery to correct it. She was in a body cast for a year.Dated Gary Oldman in the 1990s. He postponed their planned wedding in order to go to rehab for substance abuse. After meeting another woman in rehab, he called their engagement off.In 1983, Time magazine reported Rossellini's modeling salary of a then $9,000 a day.Fluent in Italian, French and English.Is an avid dog lover and helps train puppies for the blind.Says her feminine style has been influenced by Georgia O'Keeffe and Jacqueline Kennedy (aka Jackie Kennedy Onassis).Considers her time with ex-boyfriend David Lynch as her "most significant relationship".Was engaged to director David Lynch from 1986 to 1990.Virtually identical to her mother, Ingrid Bergman, but surprisingly had few opportunities to portray her mother in a biographical film. One occasion was an eerily accurate spoof of Ilsa Lund in an episode of Tales from the Crypt (1989). More recently, in the movie My Dad Is 100 Years Old (2005) for which she wrote the script, she did a moving portrayal of her mother.Mother of Elettra Wiedemann (born July 26, 1983) from her marriage to Jon Wiedemann. She also has an adopted son, Roberto Rossellini (born 1993).In the Tales from the Crypt (1989) episode, You, Murderer (1995), she spoofs her mother's Casablanca (1942) image.Appeared in photographs for Madonna's coffee table book "Sex".Her favorite Hollywood-film that her mother made is Notorious (1946). Her favorite films of her father, made without her mother, are The Taking of Power by Louis XIV (1966) and The Flowers of St. Francis (1950).Rossellini earned an MA in Animal Behavior & Conservation from Hunter College in New York in May of 2019.Brother, Roberto Rossellini, was engaged to Princess Caroline of Monaco in the 1980s.Former model, most notably for Lancome, and former journalist for Italian television.Half sister of Pia Lindstr?m. Half sister of Renzo Rossellini. Sister of Roberto Ingmar Rossellini and twin sister of Isotta Rossellini.Her daughter Elettra Wiedemann was also at one point a Lancome Cosmetics spokes model, the company that Isabella also represented for many years.She is 34 minutes older than twin sister Isotta.Her father was Italian, born in Rome, from a family originally from Tuscany and Veneto. Her mother, who was Swedish, was born in Stockholm, to a Swedish father and a German mother.Chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the world in 1990 and 1991.Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#84) in 1995.In 1991 she was scheduled to play Emilia Gould in David Lean's adaptation of the Joseph Conrad novel, Nostromo. Lean's death in April 1991 brought the production to an end.Discovered by photographer friend Bruce Weber who kick-started her modeling career.Published an autobiography called "Some of me".Has worked to preserve the films of her parents through both archival work and biographical pieces.President of the 'Official Competition' jury at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival in 2011.Is a huge fan of Buster Keaton and Charles Chaplin.Maintains a home in the village of Bellport, Long Island, New York.Will narrate Guy Maddin's silent film "Brand Upon the Brain" as part of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra's New Music Festival at the Winnipeg Centennial Concert Hall. (January 2008)Aunt of Tommaso Rossellini, Alessandro Rossellini, Justin Daly, and Nick Daly.Just finished another series of Green Porno short films for the Sundance Channel. (January 2009)Starring on Broadway in The Stendahl Syndrome. (February 2004)Her surname was originally Rosellini.Isabella weighed 6 lbs 15 oz at birth according to the birth announcement published in the June 30th 1952 Milestones column of Time Magazine.President of the 'Un Certain Regard' jury at the 68th Cannes International Film Festival in 2015.Winnipeg, Canada - filming Guy Maddin's The Saddest Music in the World (2003). (March 2003)Born at 6:07pm-CET.Born on the same day as actress Carol Kane.