Isabella Rossellini

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Biography

Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini (born June 18, 1952) is an Italian actress, filmmaker, author, philanthropist, and model. Rossellini is noted for her 14-year tenure as a Lancôme model, and for her roles in films such as Blue Velvet and Death Becomes Her.

Known For

Incredibles 2

Ambassador (voice)

The Simpsons

Astrid Weller (voice)

Friends

Isabella Rossellini

Enemy

Mother

Joy

Trudy

Blue Velvet

Dorothy Vallens

The Blacklist

Floriana Campo

Conclave

Sister Agnes

Full Filmography

Year	Title	Role
2026	The Beauty TV	Franny Forst
2026	The Beauty: Official Podcast TV	Self
2025	Roberto Rossellini - Più di una vita MOVIE	Isabella Rossellini
2025	Mr. Scorsese TV	Self
2025	Welcome to Lynchland MOVIE	Self - Actor
2025	Unanimal MOVIE	Voice-over
2024	Conclave MOVIE	Sister Agnes
2024	Jurassic World: Chaos Theory TV	Nonna (voice)
2024	Can Creativity Save the World? MOVIE	Self
2024	Problemista MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
2024	Spaceman MOVIE	Commissioner Tůmová
2023	Silent Life: The Story of the Lady in Black MOVIE	Gabriella Guglielmi
2023	A Season with Isabella Rossellini MOVIE	Self
2023	La Chimera MOVIE	Flora
2023	Cat Person MOVIE	Dr. Enid Zabala
2023	Unknown Beauty: François Nars MOVIE	Self
2023	Louis I., King of the Sheep MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
2023	Italia: Fire and Ashes MOVIE	Self - Narrator (voice)
2023	Beau geste TV	Self
2022	Land of Dreams MOVIE	Jane
2022	Marcel the Shell with Shoes On MOVIE	Connie (voice)
2022	Julia TV	Simone 'Simca' Beck
2021	Soul of a Farmer MOVIE	Self
2021	The Rossellinis MOVIE	Self
2021	Morceaux de Cannes MOVIE	Self
2021	Domina TV	Balbina
2021	Corona Film Club MOVIE	Self
2020	Fox Film MOVIE	Narrator
2020	Pompeii: Sin City MOVIE	self
2020	Paolo Conte, Come Away with Me MOVIE	Self
2020	Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful MOVIE	Self
2020	Darwin, What? MOVIE	Self
2020	The Rabbit Hunters MOVIE	Self
2020	The Owl House TV	Bat Queen (voice)
2019	The Kelly Clarkson Show TV	Self
2019	Los Espookys TV	Isabella Rossellini
2019	Vita & Virginia MOVIE	Lady Sackville
2019	American Style TV	Self
2018	Incredibles 2 MOVIE	Ambassador (voice)
2018	Belve TV	Sé stessa
2018	Hollywood: No Sex, Please! MOVIE	Self
2017	Larger than Life: The Kevyn Aucoin Story MOVIE	Self
2017	Thus Spoke De Crescenzo MOVIE	Self
2017	Cinema Through the Eye of Magnum MOVIE	Interviewee
2017	A Winter Fable MOVIE	Self
2016	Shut Eye TV	Rita Marks
2016	Blue Velvet Revisited MOVIE	Self
2016	Master of Photography TV	Presenter
2016	Closet Monster MOVIE	Buffy (voice)
2016	Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider MOVIE	Self
2016	Koko: The Gorilla Who Talks to People MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2015	Joy MOVIE	Trudy
2015	Viva Ingrid! MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
2015	The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin MOVIE	Self
2015	The Late Show with Stephen Colbert TV	Self
2015	Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words MOVIE	Self
2015	Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn MOVIE	Ingrid Bergman (voice)
2015	Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno Live MOVIE	Self
2015	Senza Lucio MOVIE	Self
2014	Variety Studio: Actors on Actors TV	Self
2014	Enemy MOVIE	Mother
2013	The Blacklist TV	Floriana Campo
2013	Trespassing Bergman MOVIE	Self
2013	Mammas TV	Self
2012	The Zigzag Kid MOVIE	Lola Ciperola
2012	The Dandelions MOVIE	Madame Trebla
2012	About Face: Supermodels Then and Now MOVIE	Herself
2012	BAM150 MOVIE	Self
2012	Finding Your Roots TV	Self
2012	Square TV	Self
2011	Blue Velvet: The Lost Footage MOVIE	Dorothy Vallens
2011	Chicken with Plums MOVIE	Parvine
2011	Keyhole MOVIE	Hyacinth
2011	Late Bloomers MOVIE	Mary
2011	Animals Distract Me MOVIE	Self
2011	L'era legale MOVIE	Self
2010	Paavo, a Life in Five Courses MOVIE	Self
2010	Seduce Me: Noah's Ark MOVIE	Self
2010	The Solitude of Prime Numbers MOVIE	Adele
2010	Seduce Me MOVIE	Self
2010	Seduce Me TV	Self
2010	Isabella Rossellini - Aus dem Leben eines Schmetterlings MOVIE	Self
2010	My Dog Tulip MOVIE	Ms. Canvenini (voice)
2009	The Phantom TV	Dr. Bella Lithia
2009	Flat Love MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
2009	Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious' MOVIE	Self
2009	La Traversée du désir MOVIE	Self
2009	Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair MOVIE	Self
2008	Two Lovers MOVIE	Ruth Kraditor
2008	Infected MOVIE	Carla Plume
2008	Green Porno TV	Various
2008	The Accidental Husband MOVIE	Mrs. Greta Bollenbecker
2008	Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies MOVIE	Self
2007	Voom Portraits MOVIE	Self
2007	Filthy Gorgeous MOVIE	Antonia
2007	Brand Upon the Brain! MOVIE	Interlocuter
2007	The Last Jews of Libya MOVIE	Herself
2007	The Graham Norton Show TV	Self
2006	My Dad Is 100 Years Old MOVIE	Self / Alfred Hitchcock / David O. Selznick / Federico Fellini / Charlie Chaplin / Ingrid Bergman / Roberto Rossellini
2006	The Architect MOVIE	Julia Waters
2006	Sartoria Tirelli - Vestire il cinema MOVIE	Self
2006	Infamous MOVIE	Marella Agnelli
2006	30 Rock TV	Bianca
2006	Pas de Deux: Making 'White Nights' MOVIE	Self
2006	Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City' MOVIE	Self
2006	The Feast of the Goat MOVIE	Urania
2005	Iconoclasts TV	Self
2005	Kill Gil - Vol. 1 MOVIE	self
2005	Notes on My Father: An Interview with Isabella Rossellini MOVIE	Self
2005	Heights MOVIE	Liz
2005	A Life in Suitcases: A History of Tulse Luper MOVIE	Madame Moitessier
2005	The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish MOVIE	Madame Moitessier
2005	The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson TV	Self
2004	Legend of Earthsea TV	High Priestess Thar
2004	The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea MOVIE	Madame Moitessier
2004	King of the Corner MOVIE	Rachel Spivak
2004	Leçon de Cinéma TV	Self
2003	The Saddest Music in the World MOVIE	Lady Helen Port-Huntley
2003	The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story MOVIE	Madame Moitessier
2003	Un film et son époque TV	Self
2003	Jimmy Kimmel Live! TV	Self
2003	Monte Walsh MOVIE	'Countess' Martine
2002	Empire MOVIE	La Colombiana
2002	Napoleon TV	Joséphine de Beauharnais
2002	Roger Dodger MOVIE	Joyce
2002	Gero von Boehm begegnet... TV	Self
2002	Mysteries of Love MOVIE	Self
2001	Alias TV	Katya Derevko
2001	Roberto Rossellini: Fragments and Jokes MOVIE	Self
2000	Don Quixote MOVIE	The Duchess
2000	The Sky Is Falling MOVIE	Katchen
1999	Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection MOVIE	Betty Spinelli
1999	Beckmann TV	Self
1998	The Impostors MOVIE	The Veiled Queen
1998	Merlin TV	Nimue
1998	Left Luggage MOVIE	Mrs. Kalman
1997	The Odyssey TV	Athena
1997	Roberto Rossellini: Il mestiere di uomo MOVIE	Self - Presenter
1996	Big Night MOVIE	Gabriella
1996	Crime of the Century MOVIE	Anna Hauptmann
1996	The Daily Show TV	Self
1996	Ingrid Bergman Remembered MOVIE	Self
1996	The Funeral MOVIE	Clara Tempio
1995	Die Harald Schmidt Show TV	Self
1995	Croce e Delizia MOVIE	Henriette
1995	Kulturzeit TV	self
1994	Immortal Beloved MOVIE	Anna Marie Erdödy
1994	Friends TV	Isabella Rossellini
1994	Chicago Hope TV	Marina Giannini
1994	Wyatt Earp MOVIE	Big Nose Kate
1993	Fearless MOVIE	Laura Klein
1993	The Innocent MOVIE	Maria
1993	Late Night with Conan O'Brien TV	Self - Guest
1993	Late Show with David Letterman TV	Self - Guest
1993	Fallen Angels TV	Babe Lonsdale
1993	Rossellini Through His Own Eyes MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1993	The Pickle MOVIE	Planet Cleveland Woman (uncredited)
1992	Sex MOVIE	Self
1992	Madonna: The Making of SEX Book MOVIE	Self
1992	Tales from the Crypt - Uncut TV	Self
1992	Death Becomes Her MOVIE	Lisle von Rhuman
1992	Morgenmagazin TV	Self
1992	HBO First Look TV	Self / Anna Marie Erdödy
1991	The Siege of Venice MOVIE	Self
1991	Lies of the Twins MOVIE	Rachel Marks
1991	Boulevard Bio TV	Self
1990	Gallant Ladies MOVIE	Victoire
1990	Ivory Hunters MOVIE	Maria DiConti
1990	Wild at Heart MOVIE	Perdita Durango
1990	Rossellini MOVIE	Self
1989	The Simpsons TV	Astrid Weller (voice)
1989	Tales from the Crypt TV	Betty Spinelli
1989	Cousins MOVIE	Maria Hardy
1988	LIVE with Kelly and Mark TV	Self
1988	LIVE with Kelly and Mark TV	Self - Guest
1988	Zelly & Me MOVIE	Mademoiselle Zelly
1988	No Frank in Lumberton MOVIE	Self
1987	Siesta MOVIE	Marie
1987	Blue Peanuts MOVIE	Lucy (Voice)
1987	Tough Guys Don't Dance MOVIE	Madeleine Regency
1987	Red Riding Hood MOVIE	Lady Jean
1987	Dark Eyes MOVIE	Claudia (uncredited)
1986	Blue Velvet MOVIE	Dorothy Vallens
1985	White Nights MOVIE	Darya Greenwood
1984	Goldene Kamera TV	Self
1980	In the Pope's Eye MOVIE	self
1980	Il resto del Pap'occhio MOVIE	self
1979	All Star Tribute to Ingrid Bergman MOVIE	Self
1979	The Meadow MOVIE	Eugenia
1976	A Matter of Time MOVIE	Sister Pia
1976	Domenica In TV	Self
1975	Les Rendez-vous du dimanche TV	Self
1967	Omnibus TV	Self
1953	A Brief Encounter with the Rossellini Family MOVIE	Self
1953	The Oscars TV	Self
1944	Golden Globe Awards TV	Self - Nominee
	Naya: Legend of the Golden Dolphin MOVIE	Queen Maya (voice)
	The Temptation Of Gracie MOVIE	Self
	Silent Retreat MOVIE	Michelle Keaton
	The Duchess and I MOVIE	Suzanne Blum
	The Painted Bride MOVIE	(voice)
	Sequestered - Inside Conclave MOVIE	Self

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