Valeria Golino

Valeria Golino

1965-10-22 Naples, Campania, Italy 114 Credits

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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Fuori

Fuori

2025

as Goliarda Sapienza

6.6
Acting

Rome. The 1980s. After the magnum opus The Art of Joy she has been working on for a decade is rejected by the Italian publishing world, writer Goliard...

Feeling Better

Feeling Better

2025

Producer

6.2
Producing

A man spends peacefully his days in hospital without too many worries. He has been hospitalized for a while but that condition seems like the best way...

Maria

Maria

2024

as Yakinthi Callas

6.5
Acting

Maria Callas, the world's greatest opera singer, lives the last days of her life in 1970s Paris, as she confronts her identity and life.

Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces

Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces

2024

as Self

7.5
Acting

A documentary exploring the life and legacy of renowned Italian actor Gian Maria Volonté, featuring insights from his colleagues, family, and never-be...

The Beautiful Game

The Beautiful Game

2024

as Gabriella

6.4
Acting

A group of advocates to end homelessness organize an annual tournament for homeless people to compete in a series of football matches known as The Hom...

I Told You So

I Told You So

2024

as Pupa

4.6
Acting

In Rome, during a January weekend a sudden heatwave arrives. The sun is initially pleasant, but the heat quickly escalates to a frightening degree, re...

The Art of Joy by Goliarda Sapienza: Writing for Emancipation

The Art of Joy by Goliarda Sapienza: Writing for Emancipation

2023

as Self

7.0
Acting

Between 1967 and 1976, Italian writer Goliarda Sapienza (1924-76) wrote The Art of Joy, a subversive novel about the dazzling social ascent of a rebel...

Marcel!

Marcel!

2022

as Analyst

4.7
Acting

The young girl, an insomniac. The mother, an artist. The dog, named Marcel. The little girl loves her mother immensely, but her mother loves Marcel mo...

The Invisible Thread

The Invisible Thread

2022

Producer

6.6
Producing

The teenage son of two fathers makes a documentary film about his parents but is surprised when a real-life plot twist occurs in his family.

The Catholic School

The Catholic School

2021

as Ilaria Arbus

6.2
Acting

Three well-off young men—former students at Rome’s prestigious all-boys Catholic high school San Leone Magno—brutally tortured, raped, and murdered tw...

Blue Eyes

Blue Eyes

2021

as Valeria

3.2
Acting
Land of the Sons

Land of the Sons

2021

as La strega

6.1
Acting

Civilisation is coming to an end. The death of his only relative gives a feral boy the pretext to journey beyond the confines of his home environment;...

Un confine incerto

Un confine incerto

2021

as Paola Cristiani

3.0
Acting
Fortuna

Fortuna

2021

as Rita / Gina

4.5
Acting

Fortuna (6 years old) lives with her mother in an anonymous suburb. She spends her time with two playmates, Nicola and Anna, dreaming of being Nancy, ...

Raphael: The Young Prodigy

Raphael: The Young Prodigy

2021

7.5
Acting

Raphael: The Young Prodigy tells the story of the artist from Urbino, beginning with his extraordinary early portraits of women - the Mother, the Frie...

You Came Back

You Came Back

2020

as Perla

5.5
Acting

Marco and Anita discover they are expecting a child. Finally a ray of light in Marco’s life after his heartbreak following the loss of Leo, his first ...

Volare

Volare

2019

as Elisa

6.6
Acting

The true story of Andrea and Franco Antonello, a father and autistic son who traveled by motorbike for three months between the United States and Sout...

Adults in the Room

Adults in the Room

2019

as Danae Stratou

6.5
Acting

A universal theme: a story of people trapped in an inhuman network of power. The brutal circle of the Eurogroup meetings, who impose on Greece the dic...

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

2019

as La Comtesse

8.1
Acting

On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.

5 Is the Perfect Number

5 Is the Perfect Number

2019

as Rita

6.3
Acting

Peppino, a retired hitman for the Camorra, has now fully passed on his job and know-how to his single son, Nino. But when Nino is brutally assassinate...

Casanova, Last Love

Casanova, Last Love

2019

as La Cornelys

4.9
Acting

Year 1763. Forced into exile, the famous libertine Giacomo Casanova leaves Paris and travels to London, where he meets Marianne de Charpillon, a young...

Euphoria

Euphoria

2018

Story, Screenplay, Director

6.5
Writing Directing

Matteo is a young successful businessman, audacious, charming and energetic. Ettore instead, is a calm, righteous, second grade teacher always living ...

The Summer House

The Summer House

2018

as Elena

5.0
Acting

A large and beautiful property on the French Riviera. A place that seems out of time and sheltered from the rest of the world. Anna goes there with he...

Daughter of Mine

Daughter of Mine

2018

as Tina

6.2
Acting

A daughter torn between two mothers, one who raised her with love and her biological mother, who instinctively claims her back.

The Invisible Boy: Second Generation

The Invisible Boy: Second Generation

2018

as Giovanna

6.4
Acting

Three years later Michele (The Invisible boy) meets his mother and his twin sister. Both have stories and superpowers but their intentions may not be ...

The Stand-In

The Stand-In

2017

4.4
Acting

A small film crew is wandering about Marrakesh and the surrounding desert. They are looking for locations for the remake of an American film in which ...

Emma

Emma

2017

as Emma

6.4
Acting

Teo has a good job, a fiancee, a lover, no intention to assume any responsibility in his life. Meeting Emma, a blind woman, will upset his convictions...

Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait

Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait

2017

Producer

7.3
Producing

A chronicle of the personal life and public career of the celebrated artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel.

La vita possibile

La vita possibile

2016

as Carla

6.1
Acting

Anna and her son Valerio run away from a husband and a father who has destroyed the love of their family with beatings and anger. They seek refuge in ...

The Very Private Life of Mister Sim

The Very Private Life of Mister Sim

2015

as Luigia

6.0
Acting

Mister Sim is of no concern whatsoever. At least, this is what he thinks about himself. His wife has left him, his job has left him, and when goes to ...

For Your Love

For Your Love

2015

as Anna Ruotolo

5.8
Acting

An extremely mannered and increasingly preposterous tale of a fortysomething woman who has to deal with an abusive, double-dealing husband and a hands...

The Time of a Young Man About to Kill

The Time of a Young Man About to Kill

2015

Co-Producer

7.5
Producing

In the mountains of Northern Albania, a young man seeks revenge for his father's death. The murderer has disappeared a few months ago and the police i...

An Italian Name

An Italian Name

2015

as Betta Pontecorvo

6.3
Acting

Paolo is an outgoing and handsome real estate broker married to Simona, a beautiful woman from the rough outskirts of Rome who has become an author of...

The Invisible Boy

The Invisible Boy

2014

as Giovanna

6.3
Acting

Michele is thirteen year old, shy, unpopular at school, and in love with Stella. After wearing a costume for a Halloween party, he finds out that he's...

Jacky in the Kingdom of Women

Jacky in the Kingdom of Women

2014

as Bradi Vune

5.5
Acting

In a country where women are in charge, a man goes to unusual lengths to make his dream of marrying the daughter of a military leader come true.

Human Capital

Human Capital

2013

as Roberta

7.5
Acting

The destinies of two families are irrevocably tied together after a cyclist is hit off the road by a jeep in the night before Christmas Eve.

Like the Wind

Like the Wind

2013

as Armida Miserere

6.7
Acting

The last few years in the life of Armida Miserere, female jail director who committed suicide

Honey

Honey

2013

Director, Screenplay, Story

6.7
Directing Writing

Irene, nicknamed 'Miele', has devote herself to people looking for help, and tries to alleviate their suffering even when they make extreme decisions....

Nuts

Nuts

2013

as Giovanna

5.2
Acting

François has everything he could ever want, until he is kicked out of the house by his wife after his umpteenth slip up; after moving back in with his...

Double

Double

2012

Producer

Producing

«Destroy your ego» states writing on a wall left by a friend who died in tragic circumstances. The sentence triggers a thought process in the author’...

Kryptonite!

Kryptonite!

2011

as Rosaria

6.4
Acting

Set in 1970s Naples, bullied nine year-old Peppino is watching the world around him as his extended dysfunctional family change. Psychedelic flower po...

A Butterfly Kiss

A Butterfly Kiss

2011

as Billie

5.0
Acting

Billie and Louis have the good fortune of loving each other passionately and of having a family. But then one day terrible news turns their existence ...

La scuola è finita

La scuola è finita

2010

as Daria Quarenghi

5.3
Acting

Some people say that school days are the best day of our lives... but there are plenty of exceptions. When chronically bored student Alex seems to hav...

Portrait Of My Father

Portrait Of My Father

2010

as Self

7.3
Acting

A labor of love documentary, in which a daughter, with the help of various talking heads, looks back on the life work of her father.

Dark Love

Dark Love

2010

as Psychologist

4.2
Acting

The aftermath of a rape seen through the parallel lives of the assailant and victim as they try to redeem and rebuild their lives respectively.

Armandino e il Madre

Armandino e il Madre

2010

Writer, Director

5.8
Writing Directing

An italian short comedy

The Cézanne Affair

The Cézanne Affair

2009

as Franca Rossetti

6.3
Acting

Gabriele returns home in southern Italy to bid farewell to his father Ernesto, a former stationmaster in a small town not far from Bari. The old man r...

The French Kissers

The French Kissers

2009

as La fille de la vidéo

5.8
Acting

An awkward adolescent boy and his angst-ridden friends try their best to fit in amongst a cast of varied characters.

Giulia Doesn't Date at Night

Giulia Doesn't Date at Night

2009

as Giulia

6.5
Acting

Guido, an acclaimed author, leads an idyllic life with his beautiful wife and teenage daughter. But despite his seemingly perfect existence, Guido's r...

The Germans' Factory

The Germans' Factory

2008

as Anna

5.6
Acting
Ca$h

Ca$h

2008

as Julia

5.7
Acting

A man meets up with two "good guys" to recover what is unlawfully his, taking them on his whirlwind ride, doing things they never would have imagined,...

Quiet Chaos

Quiet Chaos

2008

as Marta

6.5
Acting

Pietro is a successful businessman with a wife and a daughter. One day he helps his brother save two women from drowning at the beach. When he returns...

Actresses

Actresses

2007

as Nathalia Petrovna

5.1
Acting

Marcelline is an actress. Forty, single and childless, she begins rehearsals for Turgenev’s A Month in the Country. Denis, the director, admires her g...

Don't Waste Your Time, Johnny!

Don't Waste Your Time, Johnny!

2007

as Annamaria

6.3
Acting

A talented guitarist tries to make a living out of his music, ending up to collaborate with an unreliable manager and a famous pianist.

The Girl by the Lake

The Girl by the Lake

2007

as Chiara Canali

6.4
Acting

A cop investigates the murder of a beautiful teen girl left naked by a lake.

Black Sun

Black Sun

2007

as Agata

3.9
Acting

After learning the identity of the man who killed her husband, a young widow struggles with whether to forgive the killer or avenge her husband's deat...

My Place in the Sun

My Place in the Sun

2007

as Sandra

5.4
Acting

Three couples and a single guy, from different social and career backgrounds, and of various ages, struggle with finding happiness in their lives.

Our Country

Our Country

2006

as Rita

5.6
Acting

Set in Milan, where people's lives are invisibly lead by money in its different shapes: too much, too little, stolen, earned, visible and even impalpa...

Mario's War

Mario's War

2006

as Giulia

5.7
Acting

A court takes 9-year-old Mario away from his abusive family and entrusts him to a childless couple. For the three of them, living together is difficul...

Just Five Minutes

2006

as Valeria

6.0
Acting

A Donatello award nominated short feature about the difficulties faced by a wheelchair bound journalist who is trying to conduct an interview at the ...

Olé !

Olé !

2005

as Carmen Holgado

5.0
Acting

Ramon Holgado is the driver of a big boss, as well as his confidant, his golf partner, and the alibi of his escapades. His wife, Carmen, dreams of ret...

Texas

Texas

2005

as Maria

5.3
Acting

Enrico, Carlo, Davide, Cinzia, Elisa. Three Saturdays in the life of a group of friends in a quiet town in Piedmont. One night in November, one in Dec...

36th Precinct

36th Precinct

2004

as Camille Vrinks

6.9
Acting

In Paris, two cops are competing for the vacant job of chief of police, in the middle of the search for a gang of violent thieves. The movie is direct...

Alive

Alive

2004

as Elisa

5.5
Acting

To regain the one he loves and his children, Alex Meyer, composer and director of musicals, hard hit by his marital breakdown dating back three years,...

San Antonio

San Antonio

2004

as L'Italienne

3.5
Acting

While a terrorist epidemy strikes the world leaders, the commissaire San-Antonio and his partner, the lieutenant Bérurier, have to escort the French a...

Take Me Away

Take Me Away

2003

as Luciana

4.0
Acting

Thirteen-year-old Giampiero is the teenage son of a decaying family. He gets to know Romana, a girl of his age, and they fall for each other. The trou...

Frida

Frida

2002

as Lupe Marín

7.4
Acting

A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work.

Respiro

Respiro

2002

as Grazia

6.6
Acting

Grazia is a free-spirited mother-of-three married to shy fisherman Pietro and living on the idyllic but isolated island of Lampedusa in the Mediterran...

L'inverno

L'inverno

2002

as Anna

3.7
Acting

It's the story of a couple with some relationship's problems who meet another couple. It's a drama of incommunicability.

Hotel

Hotel

2001

as Italian Actress

3.3
Acting

A sex worker, a hired killer, and a movie crew cross paths in a Venice hotel where human meat is on the menu.

Word of Honour

Word of Honour

2001

as Afroditi

4.0
Acting

Drama set in 1940 about a peasant who traverses Cyprus to pray at a monastery.

Against the wind

Against the wind

2000

as Nina

5.2
Acting
Spanish Judges

Spanish Judges

2000

as Jamie

5.0
Acting

A con-artist hires two low-lifes to cover him during a deal, ending with three criminals, two dueling pistols, and one night they'll never forget

Ivansxtc

Ivansxtc

2000

as Constanza Vero

5.3
Acting

Ivan Beckman, Hollywood's most sought-after talent agent, the darling and crown prince of La La Land, is dead. How and why did it happen? Was it drugs...

Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her

Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her

2000

as Lilly (segment "Goodnight Lilly, Goodnight Christine")

5.8
Acting

In California, a group of women struggle with personal problems as their paths intertwine in unexpected ways. Dr. Elaine Keener, the sole caretaker fo...

Last Harem

Last Harem

1999

as Anita

5.5
Acting

A story of the impossible love between one of the Sultan's concubines and one of his eunuchs in a harem at the end of the Ottoman Empire.

Típota

1999

as L'attrice

Acting

A Donatello award nominated short drama about a wandering family, including a lady about to give birth, who get caught up in a the filming of a scene ...

Side Streets

Side Streets

1998

as Sylvie Otti

6.4
Acting

The lives of diverse characters in each of New York City's five boroughs overlap.

Shooting the Moon

Shooting the Moon

1998

as Silvia

6.3
Acting

14-year-old Siddharta, wise beyond his age, has to deal every day with his heroin-addict mother Silvia and an absent father. One day, his four-year-ol...

Le acrobate

Le acrobate

1997

as Maria

5.5
Acting

A chemical analyst and a supermarket clerk strike up a friendship after they are brought together by the death of an elderly woman.

An Occasional Hell

An Occasional Hell

1996

as Elizabeth Laughton

3.5
Acting

A former policeman-turned college professor of forensics, is asked by a widow to solve the murder of her unfaithful husband and the disappearance of h...

Escoriandoli

Escoriandoli

1996

as Ida

6.5
Acting

Slaughter of the Cock

1996

as Wife

1.5
Acting

Longing for a better life, Evagoras and Onisilios decide to emigrate to the Persian Gulf to earn enough money to start their own business. When they r...

Escape from L.A.

Escape from L.A.

1996

as Taslima

5.9
Acting

Into the 9.6-quaked Los Angeles of 2013 comes Snake Plissken. His job: wade through L.A.'s ruined landmarks to retrieve a doomsday device.

Four Rooms

Four Rooms

1995

as Athena

5.9
Acting

It's Ted the Bellhop's first night on the job...and the hotel's very unusual guests are about to place him in some outrageous predicaments. It seems t...

Red Wind

Red Wind

1995

as Eugenie Kolchenko

Acting

In 1940s, sympathetic African American L.A. shamus Philip Marlowe helps a dame in trouble whose lovers are offing each other over a possibly fake pear...

Leaving Las Vegas

Leaving Las Vegas

1995

as Terri

7.3
Acting

Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There,...

Submission

1995

8.7
Acting

Benicio del Toro's 1995 short film

Like Two Crocodiles

Like Two Crocodiles

1995

as Marta

7.6
Acting

A successful Italian man living in Paris returns to Italy to exact financial revenge upon his cruel half-brothers in this Italian-French drama. Gabrie...

Immortal Beloved

Immortal Beloved

1994

as Giulietta Guicciardi

7.1
Acting

A chronicle of the life of infamous classical composer Ludwig van Beethoven and his painful struggle with hearing loss. Following Beethoven's death in...

Clean Slate

Clean Slate

1994

as Sarah Novak / Beth Holly

5.8
Acting

Pogue is a private eye with a problem: every morning when he wakes up, he has total amnesia, waking up with a 'blank slate'. Since he is in the middle...

Hot Shots! Part Deux

Hot Shots! Part Deux

1993

as Ramada Rodham Hayman

6.6
Acting

Topper Harley is found to be working as an odd-job-man in a monastery. The CIA want him to lead a rescue mission into Iraq, to rescue the last rescue ...

Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology

Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology

1993

5.5
Acting

As part of the film's promotion, a mockumentary was aired on HBO. Titled Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology, the mockumentary parodi...

Puerto Escondido

Puerto Escondido

1992

as Anita

6.7
Acting

Targeted by a dirty cop after witnessing a murder, bank clerk Mario flees to Puerto Escondido, Mexico, where a couple of oddball Italian expats drags ...

The Indian Runner

The Indian Runner

1991

as Maria

6.5
Acting

Two brothers cannot overcome their opposite perceptions of life. One brother sees and feels bad in everyone and everything, subsequently he is violent...

Year of the Gun

Year of the Gun

1991

as Lia

5.0
Acting

American novelist David Raybourne accidentally becomes entangled in the Red Brigade's terrorist plan to kidnap Italian Premier Aldo Moro during a rese...

Hot Shots!

Hot Shots!

1991

as Ramada Thompson / Scarlett O'Hara / Lois Lane

6.6
Acting

The gang that created Airplane and The Naked Gun sets its sights on Top Gun in this often hilarious spoof starring Charlie Sheen, who previously only ...

The King's Whore

The King's Whore

1990

as Jeanne de Luynes

4.7
Acting

Set in the 17th-century, an Italian nobleman weds an impoverished countess, who is wooed by the King of Piedmont and faces pressure from his entire co...

Traces of an Amorous Life

Traces of an Amorous Life

1990

as Lucia Fontana

1.0
Acting

What is love? In how many forms can it manifest itself? 14 short episodes about love, spanning generations of lovers...to answer.

Torrents of Spring

Torrents of Spring

1989

as Gemma Rosselli

5.6
Acting

In 1840, a young Russian aristocrat, Dimitri Sanin, is returning home after a long tour of Europe. In Germany, he falls in love with a beautiful pastr...

Rain Man

Rain Man

1988

as Susanna

7.8
Acting

When car dealer Charlie Babbitt learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has a savant olde...

Big Top Pee-wee

Big Top Pee-wee

1988

as Gina Piccolapupula

4.9
Acting

Paul Reubens stars as Pee-wee Herman in his second full-length film about a farmer who joins the circus after a storm drops a big tent in his front ya...

Love and Fear

Love and Fear

1988

as Sandra

5.0
Acting

Three sisters, played by Fanny Ardant, Greta Scacchi and Valeria Golino, struggle with their illusions, goals and desires in Margarethe von Trotta’s f...

The Gold Rimmed Glasses

The Gold Rimmed Glasses

1987

as Nora Treves

6.2
Acting

A Jewish couple and a homosexual doctor fall to prejudice and scandal in 1938 Italy.

Last Summer in Tangiers

Last Summer in Tangiers

1987

as Claudia Marchetti

3.9
Acting

In 1956, with the independence of Morocco, the Fedala conference in Tangier is set in a city of turmoil.

Storia d'amore

Storia d'amore

1986

as Bruna

5.1
Acting

A young woman struggles to overcome the dehumanization of poverty.

Detective School Dropouts

Detective School Dropouts

1986

as Katerina

7.0
Acting

Two bumbling private detectives get themselves hired to find a missing person. They find themselves in the middle of a mob war when it turns out that ...

My Dearest Son

My Dearest Son

1985

as Francesca

4.3
Acting

A respectable lawyer finds out his son is a heroin addict. Heartbroken, he'll do anything to help his only child, even if it means sharing his hell.

Little Flames

Little Flames

1985

as Mara

4.6
Acting

Tommaso, a quiet, thoughtful child of five, lives in a world of his own, conversing daily with three imaginary friends. Seemingly loved by his parents...

Blind Date

Blind Date

1984

as Girl in Bikini

4.2
Acting

A man goes blind when remembering his lost girlfriend, but the doctors can't find anything wrong with his eyes. They fit him with an experimental devi...

A Joke of Destiny, Lying in Wait Around the Corner Like a Street Bandit

A Joke of Destiny, Lying in Wait Around the Corner Like a Street Bandit

1983

as Adalgisa De Andreiis

4.9
Acting

The Minister of the Interior gets stuck in his ultra-technological car and a rival Member of Parliament tries desperately to help him, while chaos spr...

Jours de chance

N/A

Acting

Breve storia d'amore

N/A

Acting

La gioia

N/A

Acting