ACTOR

Valentina Cortese

1923 - 2019

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Valentina Cortese (1 January 1923 – 10 July 2019), sometimes credited as Valentina Cortesa, was an Italian film and theatre actress. In her 50 years spanning career, she appeared in films of Italian and international directors like Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini, Franco Zeffirelli, François Truffaut, Terry Gilliam, Joseph L. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Valentina Cortese has received more than 704,026 page views. Her biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Valentina Cortese is the 1,115th most popular actor (down from 1,012th in 2019), the 1,667th most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,546th in 2019) and the 45th most popular Italian Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 700k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.18

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Valentina Cortese ranks 1,115 out of 13,578Before her are Jerry Stiller, Mira Furlan, Henry Cavill, Florinda Bolkan, Michael Ironside, and Daryl Hannah. After her are Ricardo Montalbán, Lee Remick, Christiane Martel, Eddie Constantine, Jean Arthur, and Frances Conroy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Valentina Cortese ranks 85Before her are Ernest Mandel, Alicia de Larrocha, Richard Avedon, Hank Williams, Zarifa Aliyeva, and Ousmane Sembène. After her are André Gorz, Richard Pipes, Yaşar Kemal, Uri Avnery, Rudolph A. Marcus, and Uziel Gal. Among people deceased in 2019, Valentina Cortese ranks 92Before her are Yukiya Amano, Tomi Ungerer, Jonas Mekas, Köbi Kuhn, Dina bint Abdul-Hamid, and Valery Bykovsky. After her are Rafi Eitan, Mirjana Marković, Alasdair Gray, Robert Frank, Dušan Makavejev, and Ginger Baker.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Valentina Cortese ranks 1,667 out of 5,161Before her are Nereo Rocco (1912), Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat (1652), Antipope Constantine II (710), Giovanni Battista Moroni (1525), Stefano Landi (1587), and Maria, Queen of Sicily (1363). After her are Cesare Prandelli (1957), Giovanni Legrenzi (1626), Francesco Francia (1450), Gnaeus Pompeius (-80), Agostino Barbarigo (1420), and Pier Giorgio Frassati (1901).

Among ACTORS In Italy

Among actors born in Italy, Valentina Cortese ranks 45Before her are Gabriele Ferzetti (1925), Amy Adams (1974), Anita Pallenberg (1942), Lea Massari (1933), Gino Cervi (1901), and Paolo Villaggio (1932). After her are Pietro Germi (1914), Nino Manfredi (1921), Eduardo De Filippo (1900), Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (1964), Fabio Testi (1941), and Isa Miranda (1909).