Isabella Rossellini

Beginning in 2003 she had a recurring role on the television series, Alias. (jeansimmons.net - a fan website) (http://www.jeansimmons.net). Her autobiography, Some of Me, was published in 1997. In 1989, she again starred in a miniseries version of Great Expectations, where she performed the role of Miss Havisham, Estella's adopted mother. She was briefly (1979-1983) married to director Martin Scorsese and was also romantically linked to David Lynch for many years. For her appearance in the mini-series, The Thorn Birds, she won an Emmy award. Even though she closely resembles her mother, Rossellini has surprisingly never been cast as Ingrid Bergman in any film, although she did perform a parody of Bergman's character Ilsa Lund from Casablanca in an episode of Tales from the Crypt. in "A little night music," then took the show to London.

Other roles include Cousins a Hollywood remake of the French film Cousin, Cousine, and Nimue in the 1998 mini-series, Merlin opposite Sam Neill, Helena Bonham Carter, John Gielgud, Rutger Hauer, James Earl Jones, Martin Short and Miranda Richardson. Fortunately, the screen's loss was the stage and television's gain: to glowing reviews, Simmons toured the U.S. She is probably best known for her role as Dorothy Vallens in David Lynch's Blue Velvet. She later took a part in Wild at Heart by the same director. By the 70s, her screen career had tapered off. Isabella Rossellini, born in Rome on June 18, 1952, is a model and an actress, daughter of Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini. Among her best-known leading roles are Guys and Dolls (1955), Elmer Gantry (directed by her second husband, Richard Brooks) and Spartacus, and The Happy Ending, again directed by Brooks and for which she received her second Oscar nomination. The Saddest Music in the World (2003). In 1950, she married the British actor, Stewart Granger, with whom she appeared in several films, successfully making the transition to Hollywood.

Wyatt Earp (1994). In 1948, she was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance as Ophelia in Hamlet, opposite Laurence Olivier. Fearless (1993). Her first major film was Great Expectations, in which she played the young Estella. Death Becomes Her (1992). She was born in Crouch End, London and began acting while still in her teens. Wild at Heart (1990). Jean Simmons (born January 31, 1929) is a British actress.

Cousins (1989). Blue Velvet (1986).