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.
Acting (103 movies)
Four Rooms
1995
Rain Man
1988
Leaving Las Vegas
1995
Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology
1993
Escape from L.A.
1996
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
2000
Big Top Pee-wee
1988
36th Precinct
2004
Quiet Chaos
2008
Mario's War
2006
Actresses
2007
Year of the Gun
1991
The Indian Runner
1991
Respiro
2002
Hot Shots! Part Deux
1993
Hot Shots!
1991
Ca$h
2008
Immortal Beloved
1994
The Girl by the Lake
2007
Giulia Doesn't Date at Night
2009
Alive
2004
Torrents of Spring
1989
Last Summer in Tangiers
1987
Puerto Escondido
1992
Last Harem
1999
My Place in the Sun
2007
Clean Slate
1994
The French Kissers
2009
Raphael: The Young Prodigy
2021
Blind Date
1984
The King's Whore
1990
Don't Waste Your Time, Johnny!
2007
Texas
2005
Olé !
2005
The Germans' Factory
2008
Le acrobate
1997
Dark Love
2010
The Cézanne Affair
2009
Like Two Crocodiles
1995
Our Country
2006
A Butterfly Kiss
2011
Kryptonite!
2011
Black Sun
2007
An Occasional Hell
1996
Spanish Judges
2000
San Antonio
2004
Love and Fear
1988
Take Me Away
2003
Side Streets
1998
Traces of an Amorous Life
1990
Shooting the Moon
1998
Escoriandoli
1996
Marcel!
2022
Nuts
2013
Like the Wind
2013
Hotel
2001
Human Capital
2013
I Told You So
2024
Maria
2024
Little Flames
1985
The Art of Joy by Goliarda Sapienza: Writing for Emancipation
2023
The Invisible Boy
2014
An Italian Name
2015
Portrait Of My Father
2010
La scuola è finita
2010
Storia d'amore
1986
For Your Love
2015
The Very Private Life of Mister Sim
2015
Word of Honour
2001
A Joke of Destiny, Lying in Wait Around the Corner Like a Street Bandit
1983
A Brief Affair
2025
My Dearest Son
1985
Fuori
2025
La vita possibile
2016
Red Wind
1995
The Invisible Boy: Second Generation
2018
Emma
2017
The Stand-In
2017
The Gold Rimmed Glasses
1987
Detective School Dropouts
1986
Daughter of Mine
2018
L'inverno
2002
Frida
2002
The Summer House
2018
Casanova, Last Love
2019
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
2019
5 Is the Perfect Number
2019
Volare
2019
Adults in the Room
2019
You Came Back
2020
Land of the Sons
2021
Against the Wind
2000
Un confine incerto
2021
Fortuna
2021
Ivansxtc
2000
Jacky in the Kingdom of Women
2014
Blue Eyes
2021
The Catholic School
2021
The Beautiful Game
2024
Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces
2024
Directing (3 movies)
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Armandino e il Madre | 2010 | Writer |
| Double | 2012 | Producer |
| Honey | 2013 | Screenplay |
| Pericle | 2016 | Producer |
| Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait | 2017 | Producer |
| Euphoria | 2018 | Screenplay |
| The Invisible Thread | 2022 | Producer |
| Feeling Better | 2025 | Producer |
| Gioia | 2025 | Producer |