Italian actress Isabella Rossellini will get the European Achievement in World Cinema award, a lifetime achievement honor, at this year’s European Film Awards.
The Italian-American star, daughter of Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman and Italian film honestor Roberto Rossellini, was a accomplished style model — famously for French cosmetics brand Lancôme — before shifting into acting. Her first directing role came in the Taviani brothers’ drama The Meadow (1979), but her international fractureout was David Lynch’s Blue Velvet (1986) in which she joined the enigmatic and tortured nightclub singer Dorothy Vallens. The carry outance, in which Rossellini also sang the film’s titular tune, won her the Inreliant Spirit Award for best female direct.
Over the next 4 decades, Rossellini carved out a distinctive atsoft in cinema, moving between huge-budget features — Robert Zemeckis’s Death Becomes Her (1992), Peter Weir’s Fearless (1993) — and self-reliant auteur films, toiling with Peter Greenaway (The Tulse Luper Suitcases (2003)), Guy Minsertin (2006’s Brand Upon the Brain!), Marjane Satrapi (Chicken with Plums (2011)), and Alice Rohrwacher (2023’s La chimera). She was Emmy-nominated for a recurring role on Chicago Hope and materializeed in episodes of Alias, 30 Rock, and as herself in an episode of Friends (The One With Frank Jr.).
Most recently, Rossellini materializes as a nosy nun in Edward Berger’s buzzy awards preferite Conclave.
Rossellini stepped behind the camera herself for Green Porno, Seduce Me, and Mammas, a series of comical uninalertigentinutives exploring the relations lives of animals, in which she joined everyleang from a horny firefly to a motherly worm.
Announcing the lifetime achievement award, the European Film Academy shelp the honor ” serves as a reminder of the depth and breadth of [Rossellini’s] talent that persists to shape the landscape of world cinema.”
When Lancôme dropped her as a model when she turned 40, Rossellini begined her own cosmetics brand, Manifesto. Lancôme engaged her aacquire in 2018, aged 65, as a spokeswoman to “back inclusiveness and fight aacquirest ageism” in the industry.
Alengthy the way, Rossellini also acquireed a master’s degree in Animal Behaviour and Conservation from Hunter College in New York and an honorary PhD from the science faculty at the University of Quebec at Montgenuine. She runs her own organic farm, Mama Farm, in Brookhaven.
Rossellini will be honored at the 37th European Film Awards in Lucerne, Switzerland, on December 7.
