38 Facts About Isabella Rossellini

Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini is an Italian-American actress.

Isabella Rossellini gained recognition as an actress after her breakthrough role in David Lynch's Blue Velvet for which she received the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead.

Isabella Rossellini is known for her voice roles in Incredibles 2, and Marcel the Shell with Shoes On.

Isabella Rossellini received a Golden Globe Award nomination for the HBO movie Crime of the Century.

Isabella Rossellini received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series nomination for Chicago Hope.

Isabella Rossellini has guest starred in the sitcoms Friends and 30 Rock as well as the dramas Alias and The Blacklist.

Isabella Rossellini portrayed Simone Beck in the HBO series Julia.

Isabella Rossellini was born in Rome, the daughter of Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman, who was of Swedish and German descent, and Italian director Roberto Isabella Rossellini, who was born in Rome from a family originally from Pisa, Tuscany.

Isabella Rossellini has four other siblings from her father's two other marriages: Romano, Renzo, Gil, and Raffaella.

Isabella Rossellini was raised in Rome, as well as in Santa Marinella and Paris.

Isabella Rossellini underwent an operation for appendicitis at the age of five.

Isabella Rossellini appeared intermittently on L'altra Domenica, a TV show featuring Roberto Benigni.

Isabella Rossellini's image has appeared on such magazines as Marie Claire, Harper's Bazaar, Vanity Fair, and Elle.

Isabella Rossellini appeared in Madonna's music video for her successful Top 5 hit song "Erotica", released in autumn 1992.

Isabella Rossellini was the inaugural brand ambassador for the Italian Silversea Cruises company in 2004, and she appeared in print ads and on their website.

Isabella Rossellini made her film debut with a brief appearance as a nun opposite her mother in the 1976 film A Matter of Time.

In 2003, Isabella Rossellini was a recurring character on the television series Alias.

The Sundance Channel then purchased the 2006 Guy Maddin-directed short film My Dad Is 100 Years Old, a tribute that Isabella Rossellini created for her father.

In 2007, Isabella Rossellini guest starred on two episodes of the television show 30 Rock, playing Alec Baldwin's character's ex-wife.

Around the same time, Isabella 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.

Isabella 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.

Isabella Rossellini is again the primary actor and plays the maternal versions of animals such as spiders and hamsters.

Isabella Rossellini was the President of the Jury for the 61st Berlin International Film Festival in 2011.

In 2016, Isabella Rossellini was cast as Rita Marks, the matriarch of the Marks crime family in the Hulu original series, Shut Eye.

In 2004, Isabella Rossellini acted in an Off-Broadway production of Terrence McNally's The Stendhal Syndrome, with Richard Thomas.

Isabella 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.

Isabella Rossellini performed "Link Link Circus" 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.

In promoting the show, which was performed twice at The Gateway, Isabella Rossellini appeared in Long Island's Newsday.

Isabella 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.

Isabella Rossellini received US$100,000 from Disney to help with her conservation efforts in those two organizations.

Isabella Rossellini has helped with the Central Park Conservancy, and is a major benefactor of the Bellport-Brookhaven Historical Society in Bellport, Long Island, where she is a part-time resident.

Isabella Rossellini is involved in training guide dogs for the blind.

Isabella Rossellini is a former trustee of the George Eastman House and a 1997 George Eastman Award honoree for her support of film preservation.

Isabella Rossellini is a National Ambassador for the US Fund for UNICEF.

Isabella Rossellini was married to filmmaker Martin Scorsese from 1979 to 1982.

Isabella Rossellini was engaged to English actor Gary Oldman from 1994 to 1996.

Isabella Rossellini has always lived near her fraternal twin sister Isotta Ingrid, while growing up in Rome, Italy or residing in New York City.

Also in 1997, Isabella Rossellini was awarded The George Eastman Award.