Isabella Rossellini
Isabella Rossellini
Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini is an Italian-American actress, filmmaker, author, philanthropist, and model. The daughter of Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman, Rossellini is noted for her successful tenure as a Lancôme model, and for her roles in films such as Blue Velvetand Death Becomes Her. She also received a Golden Globe Award nomination for her performance in Crime of the Century...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth18 June 1952
CityRome, Italy
CountryItaly
Market research shows that older women like seeing older women in ads, and that younger women do, too - because they see them and are not frightened of growing older.
When David left me I became totally brokenhearted.
I am now at an age when they wanted me to play her mother.
I never really think about what I have to do to stick to my image. I just follow what I like to do. Sometimes it's glamorous, sometimes it's not.
I believe in a set of values I cannot live by. I set high goals for myself, I seek perfection, dream of exotic faraway places. But ultimately, what I long for isn't far away at all. It's in my own backyard. Imperfection charms me, familiar things move me... a celebration of what we have, instead of what we long for. That for me, is glamor.
True elegance is for me the manifestation of an independent mind.
Women who stay true to themselves are always more interesting and beautiful to me: women like Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe and Anna Magnani - women who have style, chic, allure and elegance. They didn't submit to any standard of beauty - they defined it.
If we are completely honest with ourselves, everyone has a dark side to their personalities.
A lot of the advertisement is done by saying: first of all, have a complex about who you are.
My father used to say that you could only access culture before cinema by learning to read and write, but that once cinema was invented, knowledge was available to anybody.
I have the most fun writing and directing. And I always choose myself as the lead actor.
The reason of my life is not to be the most beautiful woman in the world.
I am much more radical in my beliefs than my products represent me to be.
But I don't really see myself as a role model. I'm not a dictator, or someone who wants to be adored!