By Brenda June Temple
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini (Italian: [izaˈbɛlla rosselˈlini]; born 18 June 1952) is an Italian-American actress and model. The daughter of Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman and Italian film director Roberto Rossellini, she is noted for her successful tenure as a Lancôme model and an established career in American cinema.
She gained recognition as an actress after her breakthrough role in White Nights (1985) and again in David Lynch‘s Blue Velvet (1986) for which she received the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead. Other notable films include Cousins (1989), Wild at Heart (1990), Death Becomes Her (1992), Fearless (1993), Wyatt Earp (1994), Big Night (1996), Roger Dodger (2002), Infamous (2006), Two Lovers (2008), Enemy (2013), Joy (2015), and La chimera (2023). She is also known for her voice roles in Incredibles 2 (2018), and Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2021), and her role as General Malice in Human Resources (2023).
Rossellini received a Golden Globe Award nomination for the HBO film Crime of the Century (1996). She received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series nomination for Chicago Hope (1997). She also has guest starred in the sitcoms Friends and 30 Rock as well as the dramas Alias and The Blacklist. She portrayed Simone Beck in the HBO series Julia (2022).
TODAY’S ALMANAC
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Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Puzzle of the Day
Born
- E.W. Scripps (newspaper publisher) –
- James Montgomery Flagg (illustrator of Uncle Sam I Want You for the U.S. Army” poster”) –
- Sylvia Porter (economist) –
- Paul McCartney (musician) –
- Roger Ebert (film critic) –
- Isabella Rossellini (actress) –
- Carol Kane (actress) –
- Kurt Browning (figure skater) –
- Willa Holland (actress) –
Died
- Ethel Barrymore (actress) –
- John Cheever (author) –
- I.F. Stone (journalist) –
- Jack Buck (broadcaster) –
- Doris Dowling (actress) –
- Vincent Sherman (director) –
- Tasha Tudor (children’s author & illustrator) –
- Clarence Clemons (musician) –
Events
- The United States declared war on Great Britain–
- Napoleon’s troops were defeated at Waterloo (present-day Belgium)–
- First fly-casting tournament in the United States, Utica, New York–
- Checker Cab put its first taxi on the streets–
- National Postal strike in Canada–
- Sally Ride became the first American woman in space–
- A 9-lb. 6-oz. kokanee salmon caught in Okanagan Lake in British Columbia–
- Edward Fincke first U.S. astronaut in space during birth of his child–
- 63-lb. 8-oz. flathead catfish caught, James River, South Dakota–
- 103-year-old Julia Hawkins won the 100-meter dash at the National Senior Games–
Weather
- Phoenix, Arizona, had a temperature of 115 degrees F–
- Tucson, Arizona, had a temperature of 113 degrees F–
- Atlanta had 3.47 inches of rain within an hour–
- A thunderstorm over Uruguay and northern Argentina produced a single flash of lightning that lasted 17.102 seconds, setting a world record for the longest duration of a single lightning bolt. –
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