MARITAL STATUS
Profession Actress
Birth name Clorinda Fiorentino
American nationality
Birth March 9, 1958 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – United States)
BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1958 in Philadelphia, into a Catholic family of Italian origin, Linda Fiorentino began by studying political science and law at Rosemont University before turning to cinema. She arrived in New York where she took acting classes at the Circle in the Square institution, while devoting herself to her other passion, photography. In 1985, while sharing an apartment with another aspiring actor, a certain Bruce Willis , she landed her first role in Harold Becker ‘s Vision Quest alongside Matthew Modine . The young actress’ career seemed launched: the same year she played a Russian spy in Touché! by Jeff Kanew and stands out in the role of Kiki, an avant-garde artist with a penchant for SM in After Hours by Martin Scorsese . Her career, however, experienced a marked slowdown until 1988, where she made a comeback in the role of a collector’s wife in Alan Rudolph ‘s The Moderns . A famously difficult actress, Linda Fiorentino refused several roles before resigning herself. She then appeared in schoolboy comedies like Welcome to the Club (1990), where her partner was Kevin Bacon and John Malkovich , as well as in erotic thrillers like Chain of Desire (1992). Paradoxically, it was television that offered her a role that matched her talent and revealed her to the general public and critics. Indeed, before becoming a film in its own right, Last Seduction (1994) by John Dahl , was first a production of the American cable channel HBO. Her role as a femme fatale opened the doors to Hollywood for her: she notably shared the poster in Suspicious Memoirs (1996) with Ray Liotta before playing opposite the duo of comic secret agents played by Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith in the comedy of zany science fiction Men in Black , a huge box office success in 1997. She favored the comic and burlesque register with Dogma (1999) by Kevin Smith , where she played Bethany, a chosen one who attracts the desires of the forces of Good and Mal, then with Ordinary Decent Criminal (2000) where she shared the poster with Kevin Spacey . She is also the nurse of a conman feigning a coma in order to get out of prison ( Paul Newman ) in
In complete complicity (2000).
Linda Fiorentino, however, tries other genres: she was in the casting of the thriller Call to Murder (2001) alongside Wesley Snipes , then in the family drama Once more with feeling (2009), presented at the Festival from Sundance.
