Valeria Golino
Date of birth: 1965-10-22
Place of birth: Naples, Campania, Italy
Known for: Acting
Also known as:
Biography
Valeria Golino is an Italian actress and director. She is best known to English-language audiences for her roles in Rain Man, Big Top Pee-wee, and the two Hot Shots! movies, particularly the olive-in-the-belly-button scene. In addition to the awards David di Donatello, Silver Ribbon, Golden Ciak, and Italian Golden Globe, she is also one of the three actresses who has won the Best Actress award at the Venice Film Festival twice.
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Four Rooms
1995-12-09
It's Ted the Bellhop's first night on the job...and the hotel's very unusual guests are about to pla
Rain Man
1988-12-12
When car dealer Charlie Babbitt learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincin
Leaving Las Vegas
1995-10-27
Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arri
Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology
1993-05-20
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Escape from L.A.
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Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
2000-05-27
In California, a group of women struggle with personal problems as their paths intertwine in unexpec
Big Top Pee-wee
1988-07-22
Paul Reubens stars as Pee-wee Herman in his second full-length film about a farmer who joins the cir
36th Precinct
2004-11-24
In Paris, two cops are competing for the vacant job of chief of police, in the middle of the search
Quiet Chaos
2008-02-08
Pietro is a successful businessman with a wife and a daughter. One day he helps his brother save two
Mario's War
2006-03-03
A court takes 9-year-old Mario away from his abusive family and entrusts him to a childless couple.
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The Indian Runner
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Respiro
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Hot Shots! Part Deux
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Hot Shots!
1991-07-31
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Ca$h
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Immortal Beloved
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The Girl by the Lake
2007-09-14
A cop investigates the murder of a beautiful teen girl left naked by a lake.
Giulia Doesn't Date at Night
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Guido, an acclaimed author, leads an idyllic life with his beautiful wife and teenage daughter. But
Alive
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To regain the one he loves and his children, Alex Meyer, composer and director of musicals, hard hit
Torrents of Spring
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In 1840, a young Russian aristocrat, Dimitri Sanin, is returning home after a long tour of Europe. I
Last Summer in Tangiers
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Texas
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Enrico, Carlo, Davide, Cinzia, Elisa. Three Saturdays in the life of a group of friends in a quiet t
Olé !
2005-12-07
Ramon Holgado is the driver of a big boss, as well as his confidant, his golf partner, and the alibi
The Germans' Factory
2008-09-12
Le acrobate
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A chemical analyst and a supermarket clerk strike up a friendship after they are brought together by
Dark Love
2010-09-03
The aftermath of a rape seen through the parallel lives of the assailant and victim as they try to r
The Cézanne Affair
2009-12-03
Gabriele returns home in southern Italy to bid farewell to his father Ernesto, a former stationmaste
Like Two Crocodiles
1995-03-31
A successful Italian man living in Paris returns to Italy to exact financial revenge upon his cruel
Our Country
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Set in Milan, where people's lives are invisibly lead by money in its different shapes: too much, to
A Butterfly Kiss
2011-06-01
Billie and Louis have the good fortune of loving each other passionately and of having a family. But
Kryptonite!
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Set in 1970s Naples, bullied nine year-old Peppino is watching the world around him as his extended
Black Sun
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After learning the identity of the man who killed her husband, a young widow struggles with whether
An Occasional Hell
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A former policeman-turned college professor of forensics, is asked by a widow to solve the murder of
Spanish Judges
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While a terrorist epidemy strikes the world leaders, the commissaire San-Antonio and his partner, th
Love and Fear
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Take Me Away
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Side Streets
1998-09-05
The lives of diverse characters in each of New York City's five boroughs overlap.
Traces of an Amorous Life
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What is love? In how many forms can it manifest itself? 14 short episodes about love, spanning gene
Shooting the Moon
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Escoriandoli
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The young girl, an insomniac. The mother, an artist. The dog, named Marcel. The little girl loves he
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Mister Sim is of no concern whatsoever. At least, this is what he thinks about himself. His wife has
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Word of Honour
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Submission
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Benicio del Toro's 1995 short film
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Red Wind
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The Invisible Boy: Second Generation
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The Stand-In
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A small film crew is wandering about Marrakesh and the surrounding desert. They are looking for loca
The Gold Rimmed Glasses
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A Jewish couple and a homosexual doctor fall to prejudice and scandal in 1938 Italy.
Detective School Dropouts
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Two bumbling private detectives get themselves hired to find a missing person. They find themselves
Daughter of Mine
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A daughter torn between two mothers, one who raised her with love and her biological mother, who ins
L'inverno
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It's the story of a couple with some relationship's problems who meet another couple. It's a drama o
Frida
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A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous
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Peppino, a retired hitman for the Camorra, has now fully passed on his job and know-how to his singl
Volare
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The true story of Andrea and Franco Antonello, a father and autistic son who traveled by motorbike f
Adults in the Room
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A universal theme: a story of people trapped in an inhuman network of power. The brutal circle of th
You Came Back
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Marco and Anita discover they are expecting a child. Finally a ray of light in Marco’s life after hi
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