Personal Info
Birth date
1965-10-22 (59 Years)
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Naples, Campania, Italy
Also known as
والریا گولینو
薇拉莉葛琳諾
Valeria Golino
Biography
Valeria Golino is an Italian actress and director. She is best known to English-language audiences for her roles in Rain Man, Big Top Pee-wee, and the two Hot Shots! movies, particularly the olive-in-the-belly-button scene. In addition to the awards David di Donatello, Silver Ribbon, Golden Ciak, and Italian Golden Globe, she is also one of the three actresses who has won the Best Actress award at the Venice Film Festival twice.
Filmography
The Morning Show
7.77
Overview:
A behind-the-scenes look at the lives of the people who help America wake up in the morning, exploring the unique challenges faced by the men and women who carry out this daily televised ritual.HBO First Look
4.9
Overview:
HBO First Look is an American television show on HBO that chronicles up and coming movies. It first started in 1992 with a documentary on A League of Their Own starring Tom Hanks, and still airs today. The series shows behind-the-scenes looks at the filming and interviews with the actors. The show is part documentary and part advertisement. It airs on HBO with no set schedule.In Treatment
8.1
Overview:
In Treatment is an Italian TV series directed by Saverio Costanzo and starring Sergio Castellitto.The Art of Joy
7.35
Overview:
Born on the 1st of January 1900 in a poor family in rural Sicily, Modesta pursues happiness since her childhood without falling victim to the constraints of society. After a tragic event that takes her away from her family, Modesta is welcomed into a monastery, where she becomes the Mother Superior’s protégé thanks to her intelligence and stubbornness. Later, she arrives at the villa belonging to the Princess of Brandiforti, where she makes herself indispensable. This relentless process of emancipation goes along with a journey of personal growth and sexual awakening, which lead her to discover and claim the right to pleasure and happiness.The Lying Life of Adults
7.3
Overview:
Young Giovanna navigates her passage from childhood into adolescence as she experiences the different sides of Naples during the 1990s. A girl in search of her true reflection in a divided Naples: the Naples of the heights, which assumes a mask of refinement, and the Naples of the depths, a place of excess and vulgarity.GialappaShow
8.063
Overview:
Marco Santin and Giorgio Gherarducci - supported in the studio by Mago Forest, a great cast of comedians and many surprise guests - comment with biting irony on the most popular TV programs, the main sporting events and the last web trends.Call My Agent - Italia
7.6
Overview:
Welcome behind the scenes of Italian show business from the point of view of those in charge of managing the careers - and lives - of the stars: the agents. Lea, Gabriele, Vittorio and Elvira are the soul of CMA and they give their souls to it, ready for anything to make their stars shine. Managers, friends, confidants and psychologists: a good agent is all that and more. And they, each with their own style, are the best. Between hectic days and mundane nights, it's their personal lives that lose out -- but deep down they have too much fun to notice. With the departure of founder Claudio Maiorana, however, things will get a little more complicated.Fallen Angels
5.9
Overview:
A neo-noir anthology television series, set in somber Los Angeles right after World War II and before the election of American President John F. Kennedy. The episodes, although filmed in color, mimicked what had been done by Hollywood filmmakers during the film noir era of the 1940s and 1950s in terms of tone, look, and story content.Julius Caesar
6.1
Overview:
Twenty year-old Julius Caesar flees Rome for his life during the reign of Sulla but through skill and ambition rises four decades later to become Rome's supreme dictator.Maria
6.5
Overview:
Maria Callas, the world's greatest opera singer, lives the last days of her life in 1970s Paris, as she confronts her identity and life.Portrait of a Lady on Fire
8.114
Overview:
On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.Rain Man
7.754
Overview:
When car dealer Charlie Babbitt learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has a savant older brother named Raymond and that his father's $3 million fortune is being left to the mental institution in which Raymond lives. Motivated by his father's money, Charlie checks Raymond out of the facility in order to return with him to Los Angeles. The brothers' cross-country trip ends up changing both their lives.Hot Shots!
6.6
Overview:
The gang that created Airplane and The Naked Gun sets its sights on Top Gun in this often hilarious spoof starring Charlie Sheen, who previously only inspired laughs with his personal life. He plays Topper Harley, a fighter pilot with an axe to grind: clearing the family name. He gets involved in a relationship with Valerie Golino, a woman with an unusually talented stomach. But his mission is to avenge his father. Lloyd Bridges, late in his career, revealed an aptitude for this kind of silliness, here as a commander who is both incredibly dim and delightfully accident prone. Directed by Jim Abrahams, the film makes fun of a variety of other films as well, from Dances with Wolves to The Fabulous Baker Boys. It was so successful that they all returned in the sequel, Hot Shots! Part Deux.Leaving Las Vegas
7.256
Overview:
Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.Escape from L.A.
5.867
Overview:
Into the 9.6-quaked Los Angeles of 2013 comes Snake Plissken. His job: wade through L.A.'s ruined landmarks to retrieve a doomsday device.Hot Shots! Part Deux
6.5
Overview:
Topper Harley is found to be working as an odd-job-man in a monastery. The CIA want him to lead a rescue mission into Iraq, to rescue the last rescue team, who went in to rescue the last rescue team—who went in to rescue hostages left behind after Desert Storm.Four Rooms
5.861
Overview:
It's Ted the Bellhop's first night on the job...and the hotel's very unusual guests are about to place him in some outrageous predicaments. It seems that this evening's room service is serving up one unbelievable happening after another.Frida
7.4
Overview:
A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work.Immortal Beloved
7.086
Overview:
A chronicle of the life of infamous classical composer Ludwig van Beethoven and his painful struggle with hearing loss. Following Beethoven's death in 1827, his assistant, Schindler, searches for an elusive woman referred to in the composer's love letters as "immortal beloved." As Schindler solves the mystery, a series of flashbacks reveal Beethoven's transformation from passionate young man to troubled musical genius.36th Precinct
6.897
Overview:
In Paris, two cops are competing for the vacant job of chief of police, in the middle of the search for a gang of violent thieves. The movie is directed by Olivier Marchal, a former police officer who spent 12 years with the French police before creating this story, taken in part from real events of the 1980s.Euphoria
6.5
Overview:
Matteo is a young successful businessman, audacious, charming and energetic. Ettore instead, is a calm, righteous, second grade teacher always living in the shadows, still in the small town from where both come from. They’re brothers but with two very different personalities. A dramatic event will force them to live together in Rome for a few months, bringing up the opportunity to face their differences with sympathy and tenderness, in a climax of fear and euphoria.Big Top Pee-wee
4.917
Overview:
Paul Reubens stars as Pee-wee Herman in his second full-length film about a farmer who joins the circus after a storm drops a big tent in his front yard. Pee-wee, along with an outlandish cast of animals and circus performers, puts on the best show ever.The Invisible Boy
6.283
Overview:
Michele is thirteen year old, shy, unpopular at school, and in love with Stella. After wearing a costume for a Halloween party, he finds out that he's invisible.Jacky in the Kingdom of Women
5.536
Overview:
In a country where women are in charge, a man goes to unusual lengths to make his dream of marrying the daughter of a military leader come true.Clean Slate
5.8
Overview:
Pogue is a private eye with a problem: every morning when he wakes up, he has total amnesia, waking up with a 'blank slate'. Since he is in the middle of a hot investigation and has a developing romance, this is less than convenient.Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
5.827
Overview:
In California, a group of women struggle with personal problems as their paths intertwine in unexpected ways. Dr. Elaine Keener, the sole caretaker for her aging mother, turns to tarot card reader Christine for spiritual aid. Christine grapples with her own angst due to her lover's debilitating illness. Meanwhile, a bank manager deals with an unwanted pregnancy, two sisters pursue romantic interests and a housewife gets back into the dating game.Acting
TBALa gioia as Unknown
TBABreve storia d'amore as Unknown
TBAJours de chance as Unknown
2025Fuori as Goliarda Sapienza
2024Maria as Yakinthi Callas
2024Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces as Self
2024The Beautiful Game as Gabriella
2024I Told You So as Pupa
2023The Art of Joy by Goliarda Sapienza: Writing for Emancipation as Self
2023GialappaShow (1 Episode) as Unknown
2023Call My Agent - Italia (1 Episode) as Valeria Golino
2023The Lying Life of Adults (6 Episodes) as Vittoria
2022Marcel! as Analyst
2021The Catholic School as Ilaria Arbus
2021Blue Eyes as Valeria
2021Land of the Sons as La strega
2021Un confine incerto as Paola Cristiani
2021Fortuna as Rita / Gina
2021Raphael: The Young Prodigy as Unknown
2021C ce soir, le débat (1 Episode) as Self - Guest
2020You Came Back as Perla
2019The Morning Show (8 Episodes) as Paola Lambruschini
2019Volare as Elisa
2019Adults in the Room as Danae Stratou
2019Portrait of a Lady on Fire as La Comtesse
20195 Is the Perfect Number as Rita
2019Casanova, Last Love as La Cornelys
2018The Summer House as Elena
2018Belve (1 Episode) as Unknown
2018Daughter of Mine as Tina
2018The Invisible Boy: Second Generation as Giovanna
2017The Stand-In as Unknown
2017Emma as Emma
2016La vita possibile as Carla
2015The Very Private Life of Mister Sim as Luigia
2015For Your Love as Anna Ruotolo
2015An Italian Name as Betta Pontecorvo
2014The Invisible Boy as Giovanna
2014Jacky in the Kingdom of Women as Bradi Vune
2013Human Capital as Roberta
2013Like the Wind as Armida Miserere
2013In Treatment (2 Episodes) as Eleonora
2013Nuts as Giovanna
2011Kryptonite! as Rosaria
2011A Butterfly Kiss as Billie
2010La scuola è finita as Daria Quarenghi
2010Portrait Of My Father as Self
2010Dark Love as Psychologist
2009The Cézanne Affair as Franca Rossetti
2009The French Kissers as La fille de la vidéo
2009Giulia Doesn't Date at Night as Giulia
2008The Germans' Factory as Anna
2008Ca$h as Julia
2008Quiet Chaos as Marta
2007Actresses as Nathalia Petrovna
2007Don't Waste Your Time, Johnny! as Annamaria
2007The Girl by the Lake as Chiara Canali
2007Black Sun as Agata
2007My Place in the Sun as Sandra
2006Our Country as Rita
2006Mario's War as Giulia
2006Just Five Minutes as Valeria
2005Olé ! as Carmen Holgado
2005Texas as Maria
200436th Precinct as Camille Vrinks
2004Alive as Elisa
2004San Antonio as L'Italienne
2003Take Me Away as Luciana
2003Julius Caesar (2 Episodes) as Calpúrnia
2002Frida as Lupe Marín
2002Respiro as Grazia
2002L'inverno as Anna
2001Hotel as Italian Actress
2001Word of Honour as Afroditi
2000Against the wind as Nina
2000Spanish Judges as Jamie
2000Ivansxtc as Constanza Vero
2000Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her as Lilly (segment "Goodnight Lilly, Goodnight Christine")
1999Last Harem as Anita
1999Típota as L'attrice
1998Vivement dimanche (1 Episode) as Self
1998Side Streets as Sylvie Otti
1998Shooting the Moon as Silvia
1997Le acrobate as Maria
1996An Occasional Hell as Elizabeth Laughton
1996Escoriandoli as Ida
1996Slaughter of the Cock as Wife
1996Escape from L.A. as Taslima
1995Four Rooms as Athena
1995Red Wind as Eugenie Kolchenko
1995Leaving Las Vegas as Terri
1995Submission as Unknown
1995Like Two Crocodiles as Marta
1994Immortal Beloved as Giulietta Guicciardi
1994Clean Slate as Sarah Novak / Beth Holly
1993Fallen Angels (1 Episode) as Eugenie Kolchenko
1993Hot Shots! Part Deux as Ramada Rodham Hayman
1993Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology as Unknown
1992Puerto Escondido as Anita
1992HBO First Look (1 Episode) as Self / Giulietta Guicciardi
1991The Indian Runner as Maria
1991Year of the Gun as Lia
1991Hot Shots! as Ramada Thompson / Scarlett O'Hara / Lois Lane
1990The King's Whore as Jeanne de Luynes
1990Traces of an Amorous Life as Lucia Fontana
1989Torrents of Spring as Gemma Rosselli
1988Rain Man as Susanna
1988Big Top Pee-wee as Gina Piccolapupula
1988Love and Fear as Sandra
1987The Gold Rimmed Glasses as Nora Treves
1987Last Summer in Tangiers as Claudia Marchetti
1986Storia d'amore as Bruna
1986Detective School Dropouts as Katerina
1985My Dearest Son as Francesca
1985Little Flames as Mara
1984Blind Date as Girl in Bikini
1983A Joke of Destiny, Lying in Wait Around the Corner Like a Street Bandit as Adalgisa De Andreiis
Production
2025Feeling Better ... Producer
2022The Invisible Thread ... Producer
2017Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait ... Producer
2015The Time of a Young Man About to Kill ... Co-Producer
2012Double ... Producer
Directing
2024The Art of Joy (6 Episodes) ... Director
2018Euphoria ... Director
2013Honey ... Director
2010Armandino e il Madre ... Director
Writing
2024The Art of Joy (6 Episodes) ... Writer
2018Euphoria ... Story, Screenplay
2013Honey ... Screenplay, Story
2010Armandino e il Madre ... Writer
Creator
2024The Art of Joy ... Creator