Isabella Rossellini
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Beautiful daughter of Ingrid Bergman (whom she closely resembles) and director Roberto Rossellini who turned to acting in the midst of a long, successful modeling career and now wears both hats with ease. She initially worked as a TV journalist in Europe; her first movie appearance, opposite her mother in Vincente Minnelli's little-seen A Matter of Time (1976), was more or less a lark. American audiences next saw her in 1985's White Nights in which she appeared with then-lover, ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov. Rossellini took a gamble on her modeling futureshe was earning millions of dollars as the primary model in all Lancôme cosmetics advertising-by appearing in a distinctly unglamorous, explicit, even unpleasant role in David Lynch's Blue Velvet (1986). (The director and actress were companions for a few years thereafter, and appeared together in the 1988 feature Zelly and Me.) She has almost consis- tently chosen roles in non-mainstream pictures, an exception being Cousins (1989), a Hollywood remake of the French comedy Cousin, Cousine. Her other films include Siesta, Tough Guys Don't Dance (both 1987), and Lynch's Wild at Heart (1990)-all of which indicate a decidedly iconoclastic attitude toward stardom. She took a colorful supporting role in Death Becomes Her (1992), then gave her best performance to date as Jeff Bridges' wife in Fearless (1993), and appeared in Wyatt Earp (1994). She was briefly married to director Martin Scorsese. |