In the "Tales from the Crypt" (1989) episode "You, Murderer", she spoofs her mother's Casablanca (1942) image.
Sister of Pia Lindström
Born at 6:07pm-CET
Daughter of Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini
Has a fraternal twin sister named Isotta who is a professor of Italian Renaissance literature at Columbia University (as of 1995).
Dated Gary Oldman (1994)
Chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the world. [1991]
Chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the world [1990]
Suffered from a spine injury which kept her bedridden for over a year when she was thirteen.
Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#84). [1995]
Maintains a home in the village of Bellport, NY
Was scheduled to appear in the David Lean-directed "Nostromo" in 1991, before Lean died, and the production came to a halt.
She suffered from scoliosis (progressive curvature of the spine) and underwent surgery to correct it. She was in a body cast for a year.
Virtually identical to her mother, Ingrid Bergman, but surprisingly was never given the opportunity to portray her mother in a biographical film. The closest she came was with an eerily accurate spoof of Ilsa Lund in an episode of "Tales from the Crypt" (1989).
Has a daughter, Elettra (named after her paternal grandmother), by Weidemann, and an adopted son called Roberto (named after her father).
Has a daughter, Elettra (b. 1985), with second husband, Wiedemann
Fluent in Italian, French and English.
Former model.
Sister of Renzo Rossellini and Roberto Ingmar Rosselini. Twin sister of Isotta Rossellini.
Isabella Rossellini Detailed Biography
Film actress, born in Rome, Italy, the daughter of Roberto Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman. She worked as a translator and journalist before making her first film appearance in 1976, playing a small part in her mother's film A Matter of Time. She appeared in several European television dramas before her starring role in the Italian film Il Prato (1979, The Meadow), then concentrated on a modelling career with the cosmetics firm Lançome for a number of years. Later films include Death Becomes Her (1992), Immortal Beloved (1994), Big Night (1996), and The Imposters (1998). For television she appeared in Merlin (1999).
