Valentina Lodovini

Valentina Lodovini

Born: May 14, 1978
in Umbertide, Italy
Valentina Lodovini is an Italian film and television actress.

Born in Umbertide, Lodovini grew up in Sansepolcro and to attend the School of Dramatic Arts in Perugia, then moved in Rome to continue her studies at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. After some secondary roles, Lodovini emerged in 2007 with Carlo Mazzacurati's drama film La giusta distanza, for which she was nominated for David di Donatello for Best Actress.

In 2011 Lodovini won the David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actress for the role of Maria in Benvenuti al Sud. She reprised the role in the film sequel Benvenuti al Nord.

Movies for Valentina Lodovini...

Conversazioni con altre donne
Title: Conversazioni con altre donne
Released: August 31, 2023
Type: Movie
Two former partners reignite their spark at a wedding reception, but as the night wears on, fond memories fade into mutual regrets and their brief affair turns into a desperate attempt to recapture lost time.
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Title: GialappaShow
Character: Self
Released: May 21, 2023
Type: TV
Alongside Marco Santin and Giorgio Gherarducci the Magician Forest, historical faces such as Ubaldo Pantani, Marcello Cesena and many new comedians who will make fun of MasterChef Italia, X Factor, Beijing Express, Ex On the beach and the most important sporting events and catchphrases of the web
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The Land of Women
Title: The Land of Women
Character: Marianna
Released: April 27, 2023
Type: Movie
The 1950s: in the ancient and far-off island of Sardinia, two generations of women fight against restrictive age-old traditions to reach sexual and emotional freedom.
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I migliori giorni
Title: I migliori giorni
Character: Sonia (segment "San Valentino")
Released: January 1, 2023
Type: Movie
A quartet of stories unfold across four holidays as family members, friends and colleagues face hard decisions, career setbacks and life-changing events.
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Vicini di casa
Title: Vicini di casa
Character: Laura
Released: December 1, 2022
Type: Movie
A couple receives an indecent proposal from their younger, more daring neighbors.
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Love & Gelato
Title: Love & Gelato
Character: Francesca
Released: June 22, 2022
Type: Movie
Lina is about to graduate high school and has her sights set on her future at MIT. But when her mom gets sick, she encourages Lina to follow in her footsteps and have “the summer of a lifetime” in Rome. Using her mom’s old diary as a guide, she explores the romantic and magical city, where she just might find love... and gelato, of course.
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L'afide e la formica
Title: L'afide e la formica
Character: Anna
Released: November 4, 2021
Type: Movie
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Io sono... Italia
Title: Io sono... Italia
Character: Narrator
Released: March 18, 2021
Type: Movie
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When Mom Is Away... With the Family
Title: When Mom Is Away... With the Family
Character: Giulia
Released: December 30, 2020
Type: Movie
Carlo and Giulia are grappling with new problems regarding the division of their respective tasks within the family. Since Giulia has started working again, it is Carlo who takes care of the children and the household chores. However, he starts to find the role of “Mr. Mom” a bit tight-fitting. Just when he decides to get back into the game and look for a job, Giulia reveals to him that she is up for a promotion that would lead her to move to Sweden. As if that weren’t enough, she will have to take the interview on December 24 in Stockholm. Everything seems to threaten the family unity. What should they do? Carlo comes up with a "brilliant" idea… To recover the old camper and drag the family into an adventure that will lead them on a journey to the North to spend Christmas all together lovingly. Unexpected events along the way and a hilarious encounter/confrontation with a self-styled Santa Claus will make the trip unforgettable.
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Say It Loud
Title: Say It Loud
Character: Giulia
Released: August 6, 2020
Type: Movie
A woman seeking treatment for her stress, suddenly finds herself unable to filter herself when she speaks.
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Three Perfect Daughters
Title: Three Perfect Daughters
Character: Paola
Released: July 2, 2020
Type: Movie
Three families go into crisis when their daughters get engaged because they are convinced that their young daughters have all chosen a wrong partner.
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Spore
Title: Spore
Character: Sorella di Giulia
Released: March 19, 2020
Type: Movie
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Title: L'Aquila - Grandi speranze
Character: Elena Fiumani
Released: April 16, 2019
Type: TV
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When Mom Is Away
Title: When Mom Is Away
Character: Giulia
Released: February 7, 2019
Type: Movie
A tired and stressed-out mom takes off on a solo vacation, sending her family into chaos as the father tries to take over the household duties.
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Forbidden School
Title: Forbidden School
Released: January 23, 2019
Type: Movie
Mixing dramatizations and real-life interviews, this film tells the story of four Jewish children who endured the brutal anti-Semitism of fascist Italy.
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Cosa fai a Capodanno?
Title: Cosa fai a Capodanno?
Character: Marina
Released: November 15, 2018
Type: Movie
A group of swingers decide to spend New Year's Eve in a chalet. Their goal is to welcome the new year in a very original way: having an orgy.
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Si muore tutti democristiani
Title: Si muore tutti democristiani
Character: Sara
Released: May 10, 2018
Type: Movie
Enrico, Fabrizio and Stefano are three left-winged friends.
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La verità sta in cielo
Title: La verità sta in cielo
Character: Raffaella Notariale
Released: October 6, 2016
Type: Movie
In 1983 an English journalist travels to Italy to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a young vatican girl.
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La linea gialla - Bologna, 2 agosto
Title: La linea gialla - Bologna, 2 agosto
Character: Angela
Released: July 27, 2015
Type: Movie
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Soundtrack - Ti spio, ti guardo, ti ascolto
Title: Soundtrack - Ti spio, ti guardo, ti ascolto
Character: Giovanna
Released: June 25, 2015
Type: Movie
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Ma che bella sorpresa
Title: Ma che bella sorpresa
Character: Giada
Released: March 11, 2015
Type: Movie
High school professor Guido is a hopeless romantic whose life falls apart after his girlfriend leaves him for another man. Paolo, a former student of his, helps him to exit his depression, only in order to become a PE teacher himself.
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Three Touches
Title: Three Touches
Character: donna nei sogni
Released: November 13, 2014
Type: Movie
Several actors are members of a amateur soccer team. They followed in their preparations for a particular audition and in their personal life. With about 6 actors this delivers a broad picture of Italian life in which the question what it means to be a man is posed in the challenging circumstances of familily life, sex relationships, sport, cross gender roles and mafia.
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Good for Nothing
Title: Good for Nothing
Character: Cinzia
Released: October 23, 2014
Type: Movie
Easygoing Gianni looks forward to retirement - until he is informed that a change in the law obliges him to work three more years. Faced with the outrageous possibility of having to do a full day's work, he sets about finding a way to achieve a quiet life
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Mafia Millionaires
Title: Mafia Millionaires
Character: Rosaria
Released: October 19, 2014
Type: Movie
Based on a real Italian crime boss and family, their 40-year saga, as seen through their eyes, reflects the history, beauty, and strife of Naples.
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The Games Maker
Title: The Games Maker
Character: Mrs. Drago
Released: July 3, 2014
Type: Movie
Young Ivan Drago's newfound love of board games catapults him into the fantastical and competitive world of game invention, and pits him against the inventor Morodian, who has long desired to destroy the city of Zyl, founded by Ivan's grandfather. To save his family and defeat Morodian, Ivan must come to know what it is to be a true games maker.
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A Woman as a Friend
Title: A Woman as a Friend
Character: Lia
Released: February 27, 2014
Type: Movie
Francesco and Claudia are best friends. They're inseparable and tell each other everything, until another man enters the picture stealing Claudia's heart. Francesco then realizes that friendship between man and woman is a complicated thing.
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South Is Nothing
Title: South Is Nothing
Character: Bianca
Released: September 8, 2013
Type: Movie
Set in a tiny seaside town, Fabio Mollo’s feature debut is a quietly evocative drama about a family’s attempts to cope with the loss of their son, and the impact of his absence on his teenaged sister Grazia.
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A Liberal Passion
Title: A Liberal Passion
Character: Nina
Released: April 18, 2013
Type: Movie
When an uncompromising idealist and rich, arrogant heir cross paths, their contrasting beliefs begin to shift when they fall for each other.
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Un Natale con i fiocchi
Title: Un Natale con i fiocchi
Character: Barbara
Released: December 25, 2012
Type: Movie
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Welcome to the North
Title: Welcome to the North
Character: Maria Flagello
Released: January 18, 2012
Type: Movie
Now in the Far North (i.e. Milan!), Alberto has accepted to manage a program for efficiency improvement in the Italian Post. He devotes all his time and all his energy to this noble task and neglects his wife Silvia, which of course annoys her beyond limits. Things do not fare much better in Castellabate where it is rather Maria, Matta's wife, who gets on his nerves by always blaming him for his lack of ambition. One day, due to a misunderstanding, Mattia is transferred to... Milan! And on whose doorstep does he land? Alberto's of course!
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Title: Il segreto dell'acqua
Character: Daniela Gemma
Released: September 11, 2011
Type: TV
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Things from Another World
Title: Things from Another World
Character: Laura Golfetto
Released: September 3, 2011
Type: Movie
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Woman of My Life
Title: Woman of My Life
Character: Sara
Released: November 26, 2010
Type: Movie
Longtime Italian cinema star Stefania Sandrelli (The First Beautiful Thing) is Alba, the mother of two very different adult sons. While Giorgio is a playboy who constantly cheats on his wife, Leonardo (Luca Argentero, Eat Pray Love) is always unlucky in love. When Leonardo finally meets the woman of his dreams, Sara, he brings her home to meet the family, but it appears this is not the first time that Sara has met Giorgio. Directed by Luca Lucini and stars Luca Argentero, Alessandro Gassman and Stefania Sandrelli.
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Welcome to the South
Title: Welcome to the South
Character: Maria Flagello
Released: October 1, 2010
Type: Movie
Alberto (Claudio Bisio), post office manager of a small town in Brianza, under pressure of his wife Sylvia (Angela Finocchiaro), is willing to do anything to get the transfer to Milan. Even pretending to be disabled to climb in the ranking. But the trick does not work and as punishment, he is transferred in a small town in Campania, which to an inhabitant of the north is equivalent to a nightmare ...
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Generazione 1000 euro
Title: Generazione 1000 euro
Character: Beatrice
Released: April 24, 2009
Type: Movie
In Milan, Matteo is an underemployed physicist, giving the occasional lecture at a university while working at a PR firm where he knows he'll be fired. Without his really trying, two women are attracted to him, a blond and a brunette. The blond is Angelica; they meet smoking on the office rooftop. To his surprise, she has clout in the company and soon has him flying off (with her) to make presentations. The brunette is Beatrice, a new flatmate, hoping for a teaching job in the national service. Angelica dangles a posting with her in Barcelona; Beatrice is simply Beatrice. Will Matteo figure out what he wants - and decide before opportunity passes him by?
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Fort Apache Napoli
Title: Fort Apache Napoli
Character: Daniela
Released: March 27, 2009
Type: Movie
The story of Giancarlo Siani, a journalist killed by the Neapolitan Mafia in 1985.
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The Past Is a Foreign Land
Title: The Past Is a Foreign Land
Character: Antonia
Released: October 31, 2008
Type: Movie
A promising law student from a good family is driven by a cool cardsharper into a downward spiral of criminality, discovering a part of himself he had never known.
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Coco Chanel
Title: Coco Chanel
Character: Adrienne
Released: September 13, 2008
Type: Movie
Fashion icon Coco Chanel, steeped in wealth and fame, still issues game-changing designs and collections. The audience is taken backwards in time to the woman's upbringing in an orphanage, and traces her path to ubiquity as it winds through poverty, wars, doomed romances, and rather glamorous betrayals.
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Riprendimi
Title: Riprendimi
Character: Michela
Released: April 11, 2008
Type: Movie
The marriage of an actor and a freelance film editor breaks up unexpectedly in front of two filmmakers' camera.
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The Right Distance
Title: The Right Distance
Character: Mara
Released: October 19, 2007
Type: Movie
The arrival of an attractive young teacher in a small town in the Po valley disturbs the drowsy life of the place, leading eventually to a murder.
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Pornorama
Title: Pornorama
Character: Gina Ferrari
Released: October 11, 2007
Type: Movie
A free-wheeling chronicle of the Munich sex film industry in the 1970s.
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Title: Boris
Character: Jasmine
Released: April 16, 2007
Type: TV
Boris is an Italian television series created by Luca Manzi and Carlo Mazzotta, initially produced from 2007 to 2010, with a revival season premiered in 2022. The show brings to the stage the behind the scenes of a television set where a troupe is shooting Gli occhi del cuore 2 (The eyes of the heart 2), a satirical portrait of the many fictions airing on the Italian TV networks.
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Title: Donna Roma
Character: Angelina
Released: March 1, 2007
Type: TV
Donna Roma is a four-part mini-series thriller from director James Schäuffelen who plays in Italy or Germany. The first broadcast took place on 1 March 2007 on ZDF.
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Yesterday
Title: Yesterday
Released: January 18, 2007
Type: Movie
Milan, 1969. Two young lovers, members of the student movement, have spent the night together. They are confronted with the consequences of a bomb attack on a bank. This attack marked the beginning of the political terrorism of the Red Brigades in the 1970s. Atmospheric, well-acted drama about social and political confusion.
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Our Country
Title: Our Country
Character: Moglie di Gerry
Released: November 3, 2006
Type: Movie
Set in Milan, where people's lives are invisibly lead by money in its different shapes: too much, too little, stolen, earned, visible and even impalpable. The money flows from one story to the next, from one person to the other, becoming the engine of the film.Everything moves around two antagonist characters: Ugo and Rita. Ugo is a banker involved in a not really clean business. Rita, the Finance Police officer, is a strong and obstinate woman in charge of capturing Ugo. Other characters wander around them, with their weaknesses and fragility, their goodness, their evil and their contradictions. Characters meet, clash, love and hate each other, their lust for money becomes intense feelings.
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The Family Friend
Title: The Family Friend
Character: Debtor woman
Released: October 1, 2006
Type: Movie
Geremia, an aging tailor/money lender, is a repulsive, mean, stingy man who lives alone in his shabby house with his scornful, bedridden mother. He has a morbid, obsessive relationship with money and he uses it to insinuate himself into other people's affairs, pretending to be the "family friend". One day he is asked by a man to lend him money for the wedding of Rosalba, his daughter. Geremia falls in love at first sight with the bewitching creature and and soon indulges in a "beauty and the beast" relationship...
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Title: Inspector Coliandro
Character: Francesca
Released: August 24, 2006
Type: TV
Italian police inspector Coliandro — an ignorant, boorish, but fundamentally kind-hearted oaf, whose entire worldview is informed by American cop movies — protects the good citizens of Bologna, routinely saving the day and foiling the plans of evildoers of all sorts by a combination of dumb luck and genuine bravery, while always falling hopelessly in love with the woman at the center of the case.
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Il mistero di Lovecraft - Road to L.
Title: Il mistero di Lovecraft - Road to L.
Character: Valentina
Released: October 28, 2005
Type: Movie
1997: A student of folklore named Andrea Roberti disappears after hypothesizing a possible link between the horror literature of H.P. Lovecraft and the dark folk tales of the Po Delta, a mysterious and remote part of northern Italy.
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Wherever You Are
Title: Wherever You Are
Character: Francesca
Released: October 22, 2004
Type: Movie
A doctor's life takes a mysterious turn when his ambulance plunges into a river.
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Title: Inspector Montalbano
Character: Giovanna Pusateri
Released: May 6, 1999
Type: TV
Inspector Montalbano is an Italian television series produced and broadcast by RAI since 1999, based on the detective novels of Andrea Camilleri. The protagonist is Commissario Salvo Montalbano, and the stories are set in the imaginary town of Vigata, Sicily. In 2012 the series generated a prequel, Il giovane Montalbano.
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Alla ricerca di Rose
Title: Alla ricerca di Rose
Character: Rose
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
In a hypothetical near future (2029), a group of children, after a mysterious event, find themselves having to deal with a world without adults, electricity and technology, and set out in search of what appears to be the only woman left at the waist: "Roses". The protagonists of the story will embark on a journey to discover themselves, unspoiled nature and in search of a mother figure.