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Cervi was born in Rome, Italy. She is the daughter of director Tonino Cervi and granddaughter of the famous Italian actor Gino Cervi. Cervi started her acting career at age ten (in Carlo Cotti's 1986 Portami la luna). She also played an English-language role in Jane Campion's 1996 The Portrait of a Lady.
One of her most acclaimed roles was the 1997 film Artemisia, directed by Agnès Merlet and starring Valentina Cervi. It was loosely based on the painter Artemisia Gentileschi's life, but controversially portrayed the relationship between Agostino Tassi (played by Miki Manojlović) and Artemisia as a passionate affair rather than as rape.[1]
In 2011 she appeared (as Ariana) in BBC TV's Italian detective "mini-series" Zen, the London Times commenting on her role as follows: "Zen (Rufus Sewell) need only walk into a Lavazzatore for [a] B-movie-rank Gina Lollo to press her amples into his chest. An interview with onecourtesan [Cervi] was conducted ... with her in bra and fishnets, the interrogation interrupted by the command "zip" as he dressed and undressed her"
Selected filmography
| Acting filmography | |
|---|---|
| Zen - TV mini-series (2011) | Ariana |
| Miracle at St. Anna (2008) | Renata |
| "Vizio dell'amore, Il" – TV series (2008) | |
| "War and Peace" – TV mini-series (2007) | Marja Bolkonsky |
| Provincia meccanica (2005) | Silvia |
| Tempesta (2004) | Dina Gusmano |
| The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea (2004) | Cissie Colpitts |
| The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Part 3: From Sark to the Finish (2003) | Cissie Colpitts |
| The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Part 1: The Moab Story (2003) | Cissie Colpitts |
| Sansa (2003) | |
| Passato prossimo (aka Past Perfect) (2003) | Carola |
| Lena: The Bride of Ice (2003) | Lena |
| Anima gemella, L (aka Soul Mate) (2002) | Teresa |
| Hotel (2001) | Hotel Maid |
| James Dean (2001) | Pier Angeli |
| Quando si chiudono gli occhi (2000) | Lisa |
| Branchie (1999) | Livia |
| Rien sur Robert (1999) | Aurélie |
| Five Seconds to Spare (1999) | |
| La Via Degli Angeli (1999) | Ines |
| Figli Di Annibale (1998) | Rita |
| Artemisia (1997) | Artemisia Gentileschi |
| The Portrait of a Lady (1996) | Pansy Osmond |
| Escoriandoli (1996) | Sabrina |
| Oasi (1994) | Claudia |
| Mignon è' Partita (1998) | |
| Portami la luna (1986) | |
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