Valentina Cervi

Valentina Cervi
Cervi in 2012
Born	(1976-04-13) 13 April 1976 Rome, Italy
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1986–present
Height	1.7 m (5 ft 7 in)
Relatives	Tonino Cervi (father) Gino Cervi (grandfather)

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.

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Role(s)	Notes
1988	Mignon Has Come to Stay	Little girl	Cameo appearance
1994	Oasi	Claudia
	The Night and the Moment	Dancer	Cameo appearance
1996	The Portrait of a Lady	Pansy Osmond
	Escoriandoli	Sabrina
1997	Artemisia	Artemisia Gentileschi
1998	Children of Hannibal	Rita
1999	Rien sur Robert	Aurélie Coquille
	Branchie	Livia
	La via degli angeli	Ines
2001	Hotel	Hotel maid	Cameo appearance
2002	Soul Mate	Teresa
2003	Past Perfect	Carola
	Sansa	Valentina
	The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story	Cissie Colpitts
2004	The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea
	Tempesta	Dina Gusmano
	The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish	Cissie Colpitts
2005	Provincia meccanica	Silvia Battaglia
2007	Fine pena mai	Daniela Perrone
2008	Miracle at St. Anna	Renata
2009	Sleepless	Olga
2011	Jane Eyre	Bertha Mason
	R.I.F.	Valérie Monnereau
2012	In a Rush	Ada Savigné
2013	Mi rifaccio vivo	Amanda
2016	Senza lasciare traccia	Elena
	Ho amici in paradiso	Giulia
2017	Dove non ho mai abitato	Laura
	Agadah	Ines
	Lasciami per sempre	Aida
2018	Euphoria	Tatiana
2019	Vivere	Azzurra
2020	The Players	Lisa
2021	Codice Karim	Gaia
	The Last Paradiso	Lucia
	The Catholic School	Eleonora Rummo
2022	The Invisible Thread	Monica Ferrari
	Marcel!	The Cousin
2023	The Order of Time

Television

Year	Title	Role(s)	Notes
1993	I ragazzi del muretto	Laura	Episode: "L'amore quello vero"
2001	James Dean	Pier Angeli	Television movie
2007	War and Peace	Maria Bolkonskaya	Main role
2008	Donne assassine	Margherita	Episode: "Margherita"
2011	Zen	Arianna von Fakenhayn	Episodes: "Vendetta"; "Cabal"
2011–2012	Distretto di Polizia	Valentina Bini	Main role (season 11); 26 episodes
2012	True Blood	Salome Agrippa	Main role (season 5); 11 episodes
2012–2015	Una grande famiglia	Martina Ruggeri	Series regular
2013	Borgia	Caterina Sforza-Riaro	2 episodes
2015–2017	Solo per amore	Gloria Keller	Main role
2016	Medici	Alessandra Albizzi	Recurring role; 3 episodes
2019	I ragazzi dello Zecchino d'Oro	Silvana	Television movie

External links

• Valentina Cervi at IMDb
• Valentina Cervi on Facebook