Actor: Talia Shire

Talia Shire was nominated for The Godfather Part II and for Rocky, which means she is the only performer nominated for work in both of those series.

Connie Corleone changes across the Godfather films from a battered young wife to something considerably harder, and the trajectory is one of the trilogy’s most interesting.

Adrian in Rocky is played almost entirely as withdrawal, and the arc of the character coming out of it is what the film is actually about.

She is Francis Ford Coppola’s sister and Nicolas Cage’s aunt, and has directed one feature.