24/09/2024 - The acclaimed Italian-born actress will receive the prize at the 37th European Film Awards ceremony

The European Film Academy will present the actress and filmmaker Isabella Rossellini with the European Achievement in World Cinema Award for her outstanding body of work on the occasion of this year’s 37th European Film Awards. Rossellini will be an honorary guest at the awards ceremony on 7 December in Lucerne.

Isabella Rossellini made her cinematic debut as an actress in 1979 in the Taviani brothers' film Il prato and has appeared in numerous other films since then, including the feature films Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart and Death Becomes Her. She worked with many different directors like David Lynch, Robert Zemeckis, David O Russell, Robert Wilson, Taylor Hackford, Marjane Satrapi and Guy Maddin.

She is also a successful television actress and filmmaker, with a keen interest in animals and wildlife conservation. Her award-winning series of shorts, Green Porno, Seduce Me and Mammas offer comical and scientifically insightful studies of animal behaviours. She also toured in over 50 cities on three different continents (America, Europe and Australia) with her theatrical monologues. Isabella has a master’s degree on Animal Behaviour and Conservation from Hunter College in New York City and has received a PhD Honoris Causa from the Science Faculty at UQAM (University of Quebec at Montreal). Her most recent work includes the HBO-MAX series Julia based on the life of Julia Child, the theatrical monologue Darwin's Smile, the US animation film Marcel the Shell with Shoes On directed by Dean Fleischer-Camp, Alice Rohrwacher's La Chimera [+see also:
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Isabella Rossellini’s philanthropic interests embrace the preservation of her family’s extraordinary cinematic heritage, including the films directed by her father, Roberto Rossellini, about whom she has written, and those featuring her mother, Ingrid Bergman. She also runs an organic farm in Brookhaven called Mama Farm.