A force in the film industry since her bravur as a leading role in David Lynch’s “Blue Velvet” in 1986, Isabella Rossellini received her first Oscar nomination on Thursday for her supporting role as the Vatican’s nun in “Conclave”.
Shortly after the nomination message, Rossellini released a video where she paid tribute to her parents, Ingrid Bergman and Robert Rossellini, as well as her former creative and romantic partner, Lynch, who died a week ago.
“I’m consciously sitting next to this poster,” says Rossellini in the video. “My dad’s film ‘Europe’ 51 ‘with my mother, Ingrid Bergman. I think so much about them, especially today, after being Oscar nominated for the movie “Conclave”. I wish they were here to know these news, but they may know it, because they may be up there and know. “
She added: “And up there, I’m sure David Lynch is too. My collaboration with him was so crucial to my understanding of the acting of the acting.”
The nomination places Rossellini in the Academy’s history books. She is the daughter of threefold Oscar -winning actress Ingrid Bergman. Her father, Italian neo -realistic film legend Roberto Rossellini (“Rome, open city”, “The trip to Italy”) was also nominated once, in 1950 for his script to “Paisan”.
Swedish actor legend Bergman is often mentioned as one of the biggest film icons of all time, known for their roles in “Casablanca”, “The Bells of St. Marys” and Alfred Hitchcock’s “Notorious”. She was nominated seven times and won three Oscars: two for best female lead role (“Gaslight” and “Anastasia”) and one for best female supporting role (“Murder on the Orient Express”).
In fact, Rossellini’s nomination this year comes on the 50th anniversary of her mother’s win for “Orient Express”, a mystery movie of all the stars where Bergman played a shy missionary suspected of murder.
The romance between Bergman and Roberto Rossellini was an international scandal when the couple married in 1950 because Bergman had just divorced from their first husband Petter Aron Lindström. She was condemned for adultery, including on the floor of the US Senate. Isabella and her twin sister Ingrid were born in Rome in 1952. Bergman and Rossellini divorced five years later.
Now 72 years, Rossellini has lived longer than both his father, who died at 71 in 1977, and his mother, who died on his 67th birthday 1982.
Other nominated mother-daughter Oscar for acting includes Liza Minnelli and her mother Judy Garland; Laura Dern and her mother Diane Ladd; Kate Hudson and her mother Goldie Hawn; And Jamie Lee Curtis and her mother Janet Leigh.
A former model that moved to the acting in the 1980s, Rossellini has mostly concentrated on work in the independent film world (including seven films with the avant-garde Canadian director Guy Maddin), with occasional large studio prize such as “Death Beces Her”.
Her other credits include “Fearless” (like Jeff Bridges wife), “Two Lovers” (like Joaquin Phoenix’s mother), “Wild at heart”, “Immortal Beloved” and “Big Night”. On TV she showed up in “Julia”, “30 rock” (like Alec Baldwin’s ex-wife) and “Green Porn”, a series of short films she directed about mating habits in animals and insects. In 1997, she received an Emmy nomination for guest actress in a drama series for “Chicago Hope”.
As it turns out, Rossellini is not alone this year in the Mor-Dotter history. Brazilian actress Fernanda Torres (“I’m still here”) was nominated 26 years after her mother, Fernanda Montenegro (1998’s “Central Station”). Montengero even has a small role in “I’m still here” as the older version of Torre’s character in a late scene.
