Editing Isabella Rossellini (section)

==Early life==
Rossellini was born in Rome, the daughter of Swedish actress [[Ingrid Bergman]], who was of Swedish and German descent, and Italian director [[Roberto Rossellini]], who was born in [[Rome]] from a family originally from [[Pisa]], [[Tuscany]]. She has three siblings from her mother: her fraternal twin sister Isotta Ingrid Rossellini, who is an adjunct professor of [[Italian literature]], a brother, Robertino Ingmar Rossellini;<ref>{{cite news | url=http://guide.supereva.it/registi_cinema/interventi/2010/06/isabella-rossellini-happy-birthday-18-giugno-2010 | title=Isabella Rossellini: Happy Birthday!!! 18 giugno 2010 | publisher=SuperEva.it | first=Alessia | last=Mocci | date=18 June 2010 | access-date=14 May 2011 | archive-date=10 February 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170210144648/http://guide.supereva.it/registi_cinema/interventi/2010/06/isabella-rossellini-happy-birthday-18-giugno-2010 | url-status=dead }}</ref> and a half-sister, [[Pia Lindström]], who formerly worked on television and is from her mother's first marriage with [[Petter Lindström]]. She has four other siblings from her father's two other marriages: Romano (who died at age nine), Renzo, Gil, and Raffaella.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Like Father... |url=http://film.guardian.co.uk/venice/story/0,,1299861,00.html |work=Guardian Unlimited  |date=6 September 2004 |access-date=29 January 2007 |location=London |first=Geoffrey |last=MacNab |archive-date=14 October 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071014070626/http://film.guardian.co.uk/venice/story/0,,1299861,00.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Growing up, she received "a liberal [[Catholic]] education".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://nypost.com/2000/09/16/isabella-rossellini-goes-into-training-to-play-a-jewish-mother-weighty-cultural-baggage|work=New York Post|first=Barbara|last=Hoffman|title=Isabella Rossellini Goes Into Training To Play A Jewish Mother Weighty Cultural Baggage|date=16 September 2000|access-date=24 September 2020|archive-date=20 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200820145201/https://nypost.com/2000/09/16/isabella-rossellini-goes-into-training-to-play-a-jewish-mother-weighty-cultural-baggage/|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[File:Ingrid-Bergman-is-visited-by-children-Robertino-Isabella-and-Isotta-Ingrid-352029841260.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Isabella (right) with twin sister Isotta, brother Robertino and their mother Ingrid Bergman on the filming set of ''[[The Visit (1964 film)|The Visit]]''.]]

Rossellini was raised in Rome, as well as in [[Santa Marinella]] and Paris. She underwent an operation for appendicitis at the age of five.<ref>{{cite news|title=Ingrid and Daughter have Tearful Reunion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-_MhAAAAIBAJ&dq=%22+%22Ingrid+and+Daughter+have+Tearful+Reunion%22%22&pg=PA1|newspaper=The Tuscaloosa News|date=10 July 1957}}</ref> At 11, she was diagnosed with [[scoliosis]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Rossellini|first=Isabella|title=Some of Me|year=1997|publisher=Random House|isbn=978-0-679-45252-2|url=https://archive.org/details/someofme00ross|url-access=registration|quote=When I was eleven years old, I was diagnosed with scoliosis.|chapter=Deformity}}</ref> To correct it, she had to undergo an 18-month ordeal of painful stretchings, body casts and surgery on her spine using pieces of one of her shin bones.{{citation needed|date=March 2011}} Consequently, she has incision scars on her back and shin.

At 19, she went to [[New York City]], where she attended [[Finch College]], while working as a translator and as a television reporter for [[RAI]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Martone|first1=Eric|title=Italian Americans: The History and Culture of a People|date=2016|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=9781610699952|page=291|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MHJ1DQAAQBAJ&pg=PA291|access-date=25 April 2017|language=en|archive-date=5 March 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240305181011/https://books.google.com/books?id=MHJ1DQAAQBAJ&pg=PA291|url-status=live}}</ref> She also appeared intermittently on ''[[L'altra Domenica]]'' (''The Other Sunday''), a TV show featuring [[Roberto Benigni]]. However, she decided not to stay full-time in New York until her marriage to [[Martin Scorsese]] (1979–1982), whom she met when she interviewed him for RAI.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Wolf|first1=William|title=Heiress to Greatness|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EOgCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA44|access-date=25 April 2017|work=New York Magazine|date=9 August 1982|archive-date=5 March 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240305181018/https://books.google.com/books?id=EOgCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA44#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref>