A daughter of art who enters the world of entertainment as a model and then wants to become an actress does not receive a great welcome from the star sytem. For Isabella Rossellini, however, this was not the case, on the contrary, through a series of independent productions she managed to make herself loved in all her guises.
Who is Isabella Rossellini
Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini (Rome, June 18, 1952) is an Italian actress and model. It was born in the capital from the union of art couple composed by director Roberto Rossellini and actress Ingrid Bergman. Despite the divorce of his parents at a young age, he spent his childhood peacefully among various people movie sets realizing that she is fascinated by stage costumes. So, after high school, he enrolled at the Academy of Costume and Fashion in Rome where he was able to start entering the sector.
At 19 he decides to leave for New York working for Rai as a translator and journalist, moving away from her initial project. She is remembered in particular for her debut as an external correspondent in the program “L’altra Sunday” by Renzo Arbore.
At the age of 28 he then made his debut as model collaborating with some important names in photography and then appearing on the most famous covers of international newspapers.
Isabella Rossellini and the great career
Through this profession he approaches the world of cosmetics becoming the face of Lancome for a long time. He later decides to launch his own line of cosmetics from the name “Manifesto of Isabella Rossellini”. After the period in this sector he decides to make his debut in world of cinema taking part in “Nina” by Vincente Minnelli and then getting a major part in “Il prato”.
The Italian projects are followed by American ones such as “The sun at midnight” and “Blue velvet” in which she plays night club singer Dorothy Vallens. There are also projects such as “Cousins”, “Death makes you beautiful”, “Fearless – Without fear” and above all “The Odyssey” of 1997. In addition to films, he dedicates time to television documentaries as “Iconoclasts” alongside Dean Kamen.
THE numerous projects however, they do not end here. In fact, in addition to being an actress and model, she is the director of the Howard Gilman Foundation which she deals with preserve works of art but also artistic disciplines. He also wrote three booksincluding his autobiography in 1997 and two other projects that recall the story of his life with the desire to pay homage to his father.
Private life of Isabella Rossellini
As a public figure, they know each other different information about his private life. Note the story of her twin Isotta Ingrid Rossellini, who teaches at New York University, and her brother Roberto Ingmar Rossellini who works on TV. From the various subsequent marriages the producer Renzo Rossellini Jr. and Gil Rossellini were born.
Of his love stories we know the 1979 marriage with Martin Scorsese with whom he lives in New York until 1982, the year of their divorce. The following year she marries Jon Wiedemann, the model with which she gives birth to Elettra, her first daughter followed by the adoption of Roberto. Also this report ends and others follow, including the one with David Lynch, Gary Oldman, Christian De Sica and Luciano De Crescenzo.