Isabella Rossellini is known in the world of cinema as an actress. But she managed to try her hand at both directorial work and as a model. The charming and direct movie star was remembered by the audience for the films "Blue Velvet", "Napoleon", "Death Becomes Her". However, success in cinema did not bring Isabella happiness in her personal life.
From the biography of Isabella Rossellini
The future actress and model was born on June 18, 1952 in Rome, the capital of Italy. Her parents were in show business. Isabella's father is the famous director Roberto Rossellini, mother is the equally famous Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman. Isabella has an older brother and a twin sister.
Isabella was only two years old when her father broke up with his wife. At first, the children were raised by their mother, but when she got married for the second time, the father took the children to himself and began to raise them himself.
At the age of 13, Isabella was diagnosed with scoliosis. She was bedridden. The child was nursed by his stepmother - she almost never left the sick girl. The disease progressed. Isabella underwent surgery, which was successful. Only scars on the back remained in memory of the operation.
After graduating from school, Isabella went to New York. Here the girl studied in college, worked as a television reporter and translator. But most of all, Isabella dreamed of a career in cinema.
Isabella Rossellini's career
In 1985, Isabella made her film debut. She got a small role in the film "White Nights". A year later, the young actress was invited to star in the thriller Blue Velvet. The role in this motion picture made Isabella famous all over the world.
A year later, Rossellini starred in one of the episodes of the film "Black Eyes", filmed by Nikita Mikhalkov based on the works of Chekhov.
The collaboration of the actress with David Lynch turned out to be very fruitful. Over the years, Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern became her partners on the set. In 1991, Isabella once again appeared in the Russian film, this time she starred in the comedy "The Siege of Venice", where she played together with Innokentiy Smoktunovsky, Alexander Abdulov, Alexander Shirvindt.
In Death Becomes Her, Rossellini worked alongside Meryl Streep and Bruce Willis. Here the actress had to resort to the help of a stunt double.
The peak of Isabella's career came at the end of the century, when she took part in three significant projects at once. After that, Rossellini began to appear on the screens less and less. Among her works of recent decades are the films "Impostors", "Abandoned Baggage", "Empire", "Wizard of Earthsea", "Clairvoyant", "Black List",.
Isabella Rossellini's personal life
The actress has repeatedly admitted that her personal life is more important for her than cinema. Since childhood, the image of a "beautiful knight" was created in her imagination, generous, talented and magnanimous: such was her father.
The first husband of Isabella was Martin Scorsese. The marriage lasted about three years. Shortly after the divorce, Isabella remarried, this time to Jonathan Weidemann, a fashion model. But this union was short-lived: it turned out that her husband was not able to support her and her daughter Elettra.
The most turbulent was Isabella's romance with David Lynch. However, the famous director left his beloved without giving any reason.
Gary Oldman saved the actress from the deep depression that followed the breakup. But the actor's addiction to alcohol prevented the creation of a lasting union. Since then, the actress has not dreamed of finding her personal happiness. Isabella devotes most of her time to raising children: at the age of forty, she adopted a boy, Roberto.
