Valeria Golino — Italian Actress born on October 22, 1965,

Valeria Golino is an Italian actress and director. She is best known to English-language audiences for her role in the film Rain Man, and the Hot Shots! films. In addition to David di Donatello, Silver Ribbon, Golden Ciak and Italian Golden Globe awards, she is also one of the three actresses who won the Best Actress award at the Venice Film Festival multiple times... (wikipedia)

I think that it helps that I have acted. That said, it doesn't mean you're going to be a good director.
I can touch my toes, but I bend in a strange way. I'll never be in the Olympics.
When I think of Italy now, I think of accessories, possessions, bad TV, fake boobs, BMWs.
I came to Hollywood and I loved it. It was a great time, but in my head I was still elsewhere, in Europe. I believed in a certain cinema, which I still do believe in - a certain European cinema - and as a young woman being in America, I thought I was being taken away from that.
I love acting. I've been doing it since I was 16, and it's in my nature. It's the thing I do best. But as much as I love acting, I love cinema more. I always had a thing about creating images.