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Place of Birth: Rome, Lazio, Italy
About Valentina Cervi
- Valentina Cervi (born 13 April 1976) is an Italian film and television actress. 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 film 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 lead in the 1997 film Artemisia, directed by Agnès Merlet.
- It was loosely based on the painter Artemisia Gentileschi's life, but controversially portrayed the relationship between Agostino Tassi (played by Miki Manojlovic) and Artemisia as a passionate affair rather than as rape.In 2011, she appeared as Arianna in BBC TV's Italian detective mini-series Zen.
- The Times said: "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 one courtesan [Cervi] was conducted ...
- with her in bra and fishnets, the interrogation interrupted by the command 'zip' as he dressed and undressed her".
- She also appeared as "Valentina" in Canale 5's series Distretto di Polizia in 2011. Cervi appeared as Bertha Mason in Cary Fukunaga's 2011 film adaptation of Jane Eyre.
- She was cast as the ancient vampire Salome in the HBO television drama True Blood.She is married to director Stefano Mordini and has two children, Margherita (b.
- 2013) and a son (b.
- 2016). She received the America Award of the Italy-USA Foundation in 2018.
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