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Valeria Golino (born 22 October 1966) is an Italian-Greek[1] film and television actress. She is perhaps best known to U.S. audiences for the 1988 Academy Award-winning film Rain Man and the 1988 comedy Big Top Pee-wee, and to international audiences for the Hot Shots! films alongside Charlie Sheen. She has won the David di Donatello, Silver Ribbon, and Coppa Volpiawards.
Early life
Golino was born in Naples, Italy to an Italian father who was a Germanist and scholar and a Greek mother who was a painter; one of her grandmothers was Egyptian-French.[2][3] She grew up in an "artistic household"[4] and was raised between Athens and Naples.[5] Golino is the niece of L'Espresso journalist Enzo Golino; her brother is a musician. She started work as amodel in Athens and then dropped out of high school after her first film, after having been discovered by the film's director, Lina Wertmuller.
Career
Golino obtained her first starring role in 1985's Little Fires and won the Best Actress Award at the Venice Film Festival for Storia d'amore in 1986. She began to work in Hollywood in 1988 with the movie Big Top Pee-wee and received roles in prominent films such as Rain Man, as the girlfriend of Tom Cruise, and the comedy films Hot Shots! and Hot Shots! Part Deux co-starring with Charlie Sheen.
More recently, she had a supporting role in the successful French thriller 36, Quai des Orfèvres.
Filmography
- Scherzo del destino in agguato dietro l'angolo come un brigante da strada (1983)
- Sotto... sotto (1984) - cameo
- Blind Date (1984) - Girl in Bikini
- Figlio mio infinitamente caro (1985) - Francesca
- Piccoli fuochi (1985) - Mara
- Storia d'amore (1986) - Bruna Assecondati
- Detective School Dropouts (1986) - Caterina
- Dernier été à Tanger (1987) - Claudia Marchetti
- Gli occhiali d'oro (1987) - Nora Treves
- Paura e amore (1988) - Sandra Parini
- Big Top Pee-wee (1988) - Gina Piccolapupula
- Rain Man (1988) - Susanna
- Torrents of Spring (1989) - Gemma Rosselli
- Traces of an Amorous Life (1990)
- The King's Whore (1990) - Jeanne de Luynes
- Hot Shots! (1991) - Ramada Thompson
- The Indian Runner (1991) - Maria
- Year of the Gun (1991) - Lia
- Puerto Escondido (1992) - Anita
- Fallen Angels (TV series) - segment Red Wind (1993) - Eugenie Kolchenko
- Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993) - Ramada Rodham Hayman
- Clean Slate (1994) - Sarah Novak/Beth Holly
- Come due coccodrilli (1994) - Marta
- Immortal Beloved (1994) - Giulietta Guicciardi
- Submission (1995 short)
- Leaving Las Vegas (1995) - Terri
- Four Rooms (1995) - Athena (segment \"The Missing Ingredient\")
- Il fratello minore (1996 short)
- Danza della fata confetto (1996 short) - Secretary
- Escoriandoli (1996) - Ida
- Escape from L.A. (1996) - Taslima
- I Sfagi tou kokora (1996)
- An Occasional Hell (1996) - Elizabeth Laughton
- Le Acrobate (1997) - Maria
- Alexandria Hotel (1998) - Justine
- L'Albero delle Pere (1998) - Silvia
- Side Streets (1998) - Sylvie Otti
- Spanish Judges (1999) - Jamie
- La vita che verrà (1999 TV mini-series) - Nunzia
- Harem Suaré (1999) - Anita
- Tipota (1999 short) - Actress
- To Tama (2000)
- Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (2000) - Lilly (segment \"Goodnight Lilly, Goodnight Christine\")
- Ivansxtc (2000) - Constanza Vero
- Controvento (2000) - Nina
- Hotel (2001) - Italian Actress
- L'Inverno (2002) - Anna
- Respiro (2002) - Grazia
- Frida (2002) - Lupe Marín
- Julius Caesar (2002 TV movie) - Calpurnia
- Take Me Away (2003) - Luciana
- San-Antonio (2004) - The Italian woman
- Alive (2004) - Elisa
- 36 Quai des Orfèvres (2004) - Camille Vrinks
- Mario's War (2005) - Giulia
- Texas (2005) - Maria
- Olé! (2005) - Carmen Holgado
- Il Sole nero (2006) - Agata
- Ma place au soleil (2006)
- Actrices (2006)
- La ragazza del lago (2006) - Chiara
- A Casa Nostra (2006) - Rita
- Lascia perdere Johnny (2007)
- Caos calmo (2008)
- Ca$h (2008)
- La Fabbrica dei Tedeschi (2008)
- Giulia non esce la sera (2009)
- Les Beaux gosses (2009)
- L'uomo nero (2009)
- L'amore buio (2010)
- Laria (2010)
- Come un soffio (2010 short)
- Armandino e il Madre (2010 short)
- Un Baiser Papillon (2011)
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