Valeria Golino

Valeria Golino (born 22 October 1965) 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. In addition to the awards David di Donatello, Silver Ribbon, Golden Ciak, and Italian Golden Globe, she is one of three actresses to have won the Best Actress award at the Venice Film Festival twice.\n', '

Golino was born in Naples, Italy, the daughter of an Italian father who was a Germanist scholar, and a Greek mother, Lalla, who was a painter. One of her grandmothers was Egyptian-French. She grew up in an "artistic household" and, after her parents split up, was raised alternating between Athens and Sorrento (Naples). Golino is the niece of the journalist Enzo Golino at L\'Espresso, and her brother is a musician. When she was a girl, her mother frequently took her to the cinema houses, and…