Valentina Cervi
Valentina Cervi (born 13 April 1976) is an Italian film and television actress.
Cervi was born in Rome. She is the daughter of director Tonino Cervi and granddaughter of actor Gino Cervi. Her mother is the Italian producer of Austrian-Hungarian origin Marina Gefter. Cervi started her acting career at age ten in Carlo Cotti's 1986 film Portami la luna. She also played an English-language role in Jane Campion's 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 Gentileschi's 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 TV's Italian detective mini-series Zen. She also appeared as "Valentina" in Canale 5's series Distretto di Polizia in 2011.
Cervi appeared as Bertha Mason in Cary Fukunaga's 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 (born 2013) and a son (born 2016).
She received the America Award of the Italy–USA Foundation in 2018.
Acted in
Oltre il tempo, l'amore
2024
The Order of Time
2023
as Greta
Marcel!
2022
as Cousin
The Invisible Thread
2022
as Monica Ferrari
The Catholic School
2021
as Eleonora Rummo
Code: Karim
2021
Stolen Kisses: Homosexual Love in Fascist Italy
2021
as Additional Voice (voice)
The Last Paradiso
2021
as Lucia
The Players
2020
as Lisa
I ragazzi dello Zecchino d’Oro
2019
as Ernestina
Vivere
2019
as Azzurra
Euphoria
2018
as Tatiana
Agadah
2017
as Ines
Where I've Never Lived
2017
as Laura
Lasciami per sempre
2017
as Aida
I Have Friends in Heaven
2017
Medici: Masters of Florence
2016
as Alessandra Ricco
Senza lasciare traccia
2016
as Elena
Solo per amore
2015
as Gloria Keller
Mi rifaccio vivo
2013
as Amanda
In a Rush
2012
as Ada
Palais Royal
2011
Research in the Interest of Families
2011
as Valérie Monnereau
Jane Eyre
2011
as Bertha Mason
Zen
2011
as Arianna von Falkenhayn
Zen
2011
Sleepless - Senza sonno
2009
as Olga
Donne assassine
2008
as Margherita
Miracle at St. Anna
2008
as Renata
Lena: The Bride of Ice
2008
as Lena
True Blood
2008
as Salomé
The Rest of the Night
2008
as Francesca
Life Sentence
2008
as Daniela Perrone
War and Peace
2007
as Maria Bolkonskaya
Part Deux
2007
Provincia meccanica
2005
as Silvia
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish
2004
as Cissie Colpitts
Tempesta
2004
as Dina Gusmano
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea
2004
as Cissie Colpitts
Sansa
2004
as Valentina
The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Antwerp
2003
as Cissie Colpitts
Dream Generation
2003
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story
2003
as Cissie Colpitts
Past Perfect
2003
as Carola
Soul Mate
2002
as Teresa
Hotel
2001
as Hotel Maid
James Dean
2001
as Pier Angeli
Five Seconds to Spare
2000
as Madeline
Midsummer Night Dance
1999
as Ines
Branchie: An Indian Dream
1999
as Maria / Livia
Nothing About Robert
1999
as Aurélie Coquille
Children of Hannibal
1998
as Rita
Artemisia
1997
as Artemisia Gentileschi
The Portrait of a Lady
1996
as Pansy Osmond
Escoriandoli
1996
as Sabrina
The Night and the Moment
1995
The Blonde
1993
Mignon Has Left
1988
as Valentina
The Prominents
as Monica Di Rossi
