Valeria Golino
Valeria Golino
Valeria Golino is an Italian actress and director. She is best known to English-language audiences for her role in the film Rain Man, and the Hot Shots! films. In addition to David di Donatello, Silver Ribbon, Golden Ciak and Italian Golden Globe awards, she is also one of the three actresses who won the Best Actress award at the Venice Film Festival multiple times...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth22 October 1965
CityNaples, Italy
CountryItaly
When I think of Italy now, I think of accessories, possessions, bad TV, fake boobs, BMWs.
I can touch my toes, but I bend in a strange way. I'll never be in the Olympics.
I worked with fantastic actors, fantastic directors. People I would never otherwise have met. Was I limited? Yes. Did I use it as I could have? No. But I was always ambivalent about Hollywood and what I wanted. And ambivalence in our business is no good for success.
I came to Hollywood and I loved it. It was a great time, but in my head I was still elsewhere, in Europe. I believed in a certain cinema, which I still do believe in - a certain European cinema - and as a young woman being in America, I thought I was being taken away from that.
I love acting. I've been doing it since I was 16, and it's in my nature. It's the thing I do best. But as much as I love acting, I love cinema more. I always had a thing about creating images.
As an actress you can participate, you can be a co-author, help the director. But I always wanted to be able to make the big decisions.
What I am really curious about is the visuals of cinema... the form.
I've learned so many things from directors in my acting career. There are even some things I've learned that I didn't want to do. There are those directors who've really made me shine and others who've made me opaque.