Valeria Golino

Acting · Born 1965-10-22 · Naples, Campania, Italy

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 four actresses who has won the Best Actress award at the Venice Film Festival twice.

Known for

• Gioia (2026)
• A Brief Affair (2025)
• Fuori (2025)
• Elisa (2025)
• LIBERO sempre comunque mai (2025)
• I Told You So (2024)
• Maria (2024)
• The Beautiful Game (2024)
• Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces (2024)
• The Art of Joy by Goliarda Sapienza: Writing for Emancipation (2023)
• Marcel! (2022)
• Raphael: The Young Prodigy (2021)
• Land Of The Sons (2021)
• Un confine incerto (2021)
• Fortuna (2021)
• Blue Eyes (2021)
• The Catholic School (2021)
• You Came Back (2020)
• Casanova, Last Love (2019)
• Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
• 5 Is the Perfect Number (2019)
• Volare (2019)
• Adults in the Room (2019)
• The Invisible Boy: Second Generation (2018)