Valentina Cervi

Valentina Cervi (born 13 April 1974) is an Italian film and television actress.Cervi was born in Rome, Italy. She is the daughter of director Tonino Cervi and granddaughter of the famous Italian actor Gino Cervi. Cervi started her acting career at age ten in Carlo Cottis 1986 film Portami la luna. She also played an English-language role in Jane Campions 1996 The Portrait of a Lady.One of her most acclaimed roles was the lead in the 1997 film Artemisia, directed by Agnès Merlet. It was loosely based on the painter Artemisia Gentileschis life, but controversially portrayed the relationship between Agostino Tassi (played by Miki Manojlović) and Artemisia as a passionate affair rather than as rape.In 2011, she appeared as Arianna in BBC TVs Italian detective mini-series Zen. The Times said: Zen (Rufus Sewell) need only walk into a Lavazzatore for [a] B-movie-rank Gina Lollo to press her amples into his chest. An interview with one courtesan [Cervi] was conducted ... with her in bra and fishnets, the interrogation interrupted by the command zip as he dressed and undressed her. She also appeared as Valentina in Canale 5s series Distretto di Polizia in 2011.Cervi appeared as Bertha Mason in Cary Fukunagas 2011 film adaptation of Jane Eyre. She was cast as the ancient vampire Salome in the HBO television drama True Blood.She is married to director Stefano Mordini and has two children, Margherita (b. 2013) and a son (b. 2016).

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