Valentina Cervi (born thirteen April 1976) is an Italian film and tv actress.
Cervi was born in Rome, Italy. She is that the daughter of director Tonino Cervi and granddaughter of the famous Italian actor Gino Cervi. Cervi started her acting career at age 10 in Carlo Cotti's 1986 film Portami la luna. She additionally played an English-language role in Jane Campion's 1996 The Portrait of a woman.
One of her most acclaimed roles was the lead within the 1997 film Artemisia, directed by Agnès Merlet. it absolutely was loosely based mostly on the painter Artemisia Gentileschi's life, however controversially portrayed the link between Agostino Tassi (played by Miki Manojlović) and Artemisia as an ardent affair instead of as rape.
In 2011, she appeared as Arianna in BBC TV's Italian detective mini-series Zen. The London Times commenting on her role as follows: "Zen (Rufus Sewell) want solely 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 ... together with her in bra and fishnets, the interrogation interrupted by the command 'zip' as he dressed and undressed her".[2] She additionally appeared as "Valentina" in Canale 5's series Distretto di Polizia in 2011.
Cervi appeared as Bertha in Cary Fukunaga's 2011 film adaptation of Jane Eyre. She was solid because the ancient vampire Salome within the HBO tv drama True Blood.
Portami la luna (1986)
Mignon è' Partita (1998)
Oasi (1994) Claudia
Escoriandoli (1996) Sabrina
The Portrait of a Lady (1996) Pansy Osmond
Artemisia (1997) Artemisia Gentileschi
Figli Di Annibale (1998) Rita
La Via Degli Angeli (1999) Ines
Five Seconds to Spare (1999)
Rien sur Robert (1999) Aurélie
Branchie (1999) Livia
Quando si chiudono gli occhi (2000) Lisa
James Dean (2001) Pier Angeli
Hotel (2001) Hotel Maid
Anima gemella, L (aka Soul Mate) (2002) Teresa
Lena: The Bride of Ice (2003) Lena
Passato prossimo (aka Past Perfect) (2003) Carola
Sansa (2003)
The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Part 1: The Moab Story (2003) Cissie Colpitts
The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Part 3: From Sark to the Finish (2003) Cissie Colpitts
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea (2004) Cissie Colpitts
Tempesta (2004) Dina Gusmano
Provincia meccanica (2005) Silvia
War and Peace – TV mini-series (2007) Marja Bolkonsky
Vizio dell'amore, Il – TV series (2008)
Miracle at St. Anna (2008) Renata
Zen – TV mini-series (2011) Arianna
Jane Eyre (2011) Bertha Antonietta Mason
True Blood (2012) Salome Agrippa