Isabella Rossellini hails from a rich Hollywood heritage as the daughter of film director Roberto Rossellini and actress Ingrid Bergman. Rossellini was also married to film director Martin Scorsese in her 20s. Rossellini would eventually make a name for herself as an actress independent of her pedigree.

As an actress, Rossellini has acquired more than 100 film and television credits across her five-decade career. In 2024, she received her first Oscar nomination for her supporting role in Conclave. Among numerous other accolades for her work in Conclave are a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress as well as Critics Choice Award and Screen Actors Guild Award ensemble wins. Her earlier celebrated works include Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, White Nights, Rodger Dodger, Cousins, Death Becomes Her, Fearless, Big Night, and Joy.

At times Rossellini found herself stuck between being the “daughter of” or “the wife of." At another time, without any seeming options because of ageism, she felt directionless, passionless and depressed. Now in her seventies, Rossellini is living a life re-imagined. She has returned to modeling with Lancôme after a 25-year hiatus, defying traditional mindsets about life, beauty, and the journey of aging. Reinventing every step of her path, she is living her best life. It is a joy-filled journey that she wants to share with you.

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Rossellini’s insatiable curiosity and love for adventure helped her to rewrite the next chapter. Recovering her passion for animals, she completed her master’s degree in Animal Behavior and Conservation and received a PhD Honoris Causa from the Science Faculty at UQAM (University of Quebec at Montreal).

Rossellini’s second act has been the place where her love for animals and her gift for acting, writing and directing have fused into entertaining, comical and scientifically informed productions. Her inaugural show Link Link Circus playfully explores Darwin’s theory of evolution which links us humans to animals. Her award-winning series of shorts Green Porno, Seduce Me, and Mammas offer comical and scientifically insightful studies of animal behavior. Her latest presentation, Sex and Consequences, is a comical but scientifically accurate show on biodiversity and the multiple ways animals reproduce and have “babies." Her book My Chickens and I received global acclaim and has been translated into several languages.

On screen, Rossellini has been seen in Vita and Virginia, The Incredibles, and the film Silent Retreat. Her television work includes Master of Photography and the series Domina for European broadcaster SKY, and the American series Shut Eye, for Hulu.

She is a mother of two, resides in Bellport, Long Island, and runs a Mama Farm in Brookhaven, NY in association with the Peconic Land Trust.