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Valeria Golino is an Italian actress and film director. She is known to English-language audiences for her role in Rain Man, Big Top Pee-wee and the two Hot Shots! films, especially the olive-in-the-belly-button scene. The second child of an Italian germanist and a Greek painter, Valeria Golino grew up in Naples until her parents parted. After three years in Athens with her mother and another three in Naples with her father, she began to work as a model. She left high school after her first movie and didn't study performing arts at all. In 1985 she got the leading role in Little Flames (1985) by Peter Del Monte and the next year won the Best Actress Award at the Venice Film Festival for Storia d'amore (1986). After some European co-productions (Dernier été à Tanger (1987), The Gold Rimmed Glasses (1987), Three Sisters (1988)) she began to work in Hollywood (Big Top Pee-wee (1988)). She soon gained prominent roles in Rain Man (1988), Hot Shots! (1991) and Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993). Now she works in the US (Clean Slate (1994), An Occasional Hell (1996)), Europe (The King
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Golino, Valeria 1966- (Valeria Galino, Baleria Gkolino)
PERSONAL
Born October 22, 1966, in Naples, Italy; father, a scholar and literary critic; mother, a painter.
Addresses:
Agent—Creative Artists Agency, 9830 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90212. Manager—Alan Siegel Entertainment, 345 North Maple Dr., Suite 375, Beverly Hills, CA 90210.
Career:
Actress. Also worked as a model. Also known as Baleria Gkolino.
Awards, Honors:
Golden Lion Award, best actress, Venice International Film Festival, 1986, and Nastro d'Argento (Silver Ribbon), best actress, Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists, 1987, both for Storia d'amore; Grolla d'oro (Golden Grolle), 1997, and David di Donatello Award nomination, best actress in a leading role, 1998, both for Le acrobate; Nastro d'Argento (Silver Ribbon), best actress, 2002, David di Donatello Award nomination, best actress, 2003, and Mons International Festival of Love Films Award, best actress, 2003, all for Respiro; Nastro d'Argento nomination (Silver Ribbon nomination), best actress, 2004, for Prendimi e portami vi Italian model, actress and film director Valeria Golino (born 22 October 1965) is an Italian actress and film director. She is best known to English-language audiences for her roles in Rain Man, Big Top Pee-wee, and Hot Shots!, where she performed the "olive-in-the-belly-button" scene. In addition to David di Donatello, Nastro d'Argento, Ciak d'oro and Globo d'oro awards, she is one of four actresses to have twice won the Best Actress award at the Venice Film Festival. Golino was born on 22 October 1965[2] in Naples, Italy, the daughter of an Italian father who was a Germanist scholar, and a Greek mother, Lalla,[3] who was a painter. One of her grandmothers was Egyptian-French.[4] She grew up in an "artistic household",[5] and after her parents split up, was raised alternating between Athens and Sorrento (near Naples).[6] Golino is the niece of the journalist Enzo Golino at L'Espresso, and her brother is a musician. When she was a girl, her mother frequently took her to the cinema,
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Valeria Golino
Early life
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