Isabella Rossellini, 70 years between cinema and vintage chickens

Isabella Rossellini turns 70, the iconic and multifaceted actress - awaited in theaters with the latest film, "

" - who in her life divides herself between cinema and her estate on Long Island where she raises vintage chickens.

Born on June 18, 1952, daughter of two myths of world cinema,

, herself a beauty myth: seven years ago Lancome hired her for the second time after having unceremoniously put her at the door twenty years earlier because "too old to make women dream that they will stay young forever".

Born in Rome during the years of her parents' "scandal", for Isabella, cinema has been a family profession from the very beginning

.

She made her debut alongside her mother in 1976 with "Nina", the last film by Charles Boyer and the last of her directed by Vincente Minnelli, then in 1979, the year of her marriage to Scorsese, she appears in "Il Prato" of the Taviani Brothers.

The union with Martin, already on the third "yes", lasts less than three years: "He was jealous, I had done a cover of Vogue and he threatened not to go out for a month: he didn't want to see other men admiring me at the newsstand '", she confided in an interview with her neighbor Charlie Rose who looked for her on the eve of her birthday.

Isabella divorces Martin when she becomes pregnant with Jonathan Wiedemann, a Bruce Weber model, whom she marries soon after, but even that union does not stand up to the crisis of the third year.

enters her life

who chooses her for "

", the neo-noir thriller that makes her famous and after Lynch, in the nineties, it is the turn of Gary Oldman in a black moment for the actor who fought against the demons of alcoholism.

Isabella Rossellini in Blue Velvet

Publicly

(but had a boyfriend in the months of the Covid lockdown), Rossellini continues to act even if the parts are no longer the protagonist: "It's difficult for a 70-year-old woman," she said a few months ago. ago by presenting his father's "Francesco Giullare di Dio" at the Cineteca di Bologna.

In February she was on the set of "La Chimera", Alice Rohrwacher's latest film about grave robbers in Maremma, while in March "Julia" was released on Hbo in which she plays the part of Simka, the friend who teaches cooking at iconic telechef Julia Childs.

n parallel there is a second career: mother of two children and grandmother of two grandchildren, for some years Isabella has been a "

" in the "Mama Farm" estate, 15 hectares on Long Island, where hens and "adopted" dogs is also reinvented in the hospitality sector with a bed and breakfast inspired by its three cultures: American farmhouse, Italian country house, Swedish contemporary.

"Mama Farm" is all about organic and Isabella

(they have names like Andy Warhol and Amelia Earhart and are the subject of her latest book, "My Chicken and I") and extinct sheep baptized with the names of women artists like (Frida) Kahlo, (Georgia) O'Keefe and even (Greta) Garbo.

Nature is not a hobby: the star and director of the short "

obtained a master's degree in ethology at Hunter College which was used, among other things, for "Link Link Circus", directed by Guido Torlonia , half show and half conference together with the trained dog Pan, inspired by his admiration for the animal world.