Monica Bellucci Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Profession Actress
Birth name Monica Anna Maria Bellucci
Italian nationality
Birth September 30, 1964 (Citta di Castello – Italy)

BIOGRAPHY
Born in the Perugia region, Monica Bellucci began her career in modeling. After studying law, she turned to comedy and appeared in a TV film by Dino Risi , Vita Coi Fligi (1990), before obtaining her first important role in La Riffa (1991) by Francesco Laudadio . Shortly after, she was spotted by Francis Ford Coppola who offered her a small role in his Dracula in 1992.

She made a few films in Italy, before arriving in France, where she made herself known with The Apartment (1996) by Gilles Mimouni . It was on the set of this romance that she met Vincent Cassel , her future husband. The two lovers notably play opposite each other in the sulphurous Dobermann (1997) by Jan Kounen and Irréversible (2002) by Gaspar Noé , as well as in the spy thriller Secret Agents (2004) by Frédéric Schoendoerffer . The luscious Italian also displays her charms in major French productions such as The Pact of the Wolves (2001) and Asterix and Obelix: Cleopatra Mission (2002), where she plays the statuesque Egyptian queen.

At the same time, she began an international career, reprising the role originally played by Romy Schneider in Suspicion (2000), the American remake of Garde à vue , and finding herself opposite Bruce Willis in Les Larmes du soleil (2003) by Antoine Fuqua . She also appears in the credits of the last two installments of the Matrix saga: Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions . Directed by Mel Gibson in the role of the great sinner Mary Magdalene for The Passion of the Christ (2004), she literally bewitched The Brothers Grimm (2005) and brought her glamorous touch to the gunfight film Shoot’em-up (2007).

In France, Monica Bellucci shoots for great filmmakers like Bertrand Blier ( How much do you love me?, 2005), Alain Corneau ( The Second Breath , 2007), and goes so far as to flirt with the strange by interfering in the universe of Jean-Christophe Grangé ( The Stone Council, 2006) and that of Marina De Van ( Don’t look back , 2009). Approaching fifty, the sublime actress continues her brilliant and eclectic career both in the United States ( The Sorcerer’s Apprentice with Nicolas Cage ) and in France. Thus, Philippe Garrel gave her one of the central roles in A Burning Summer (2011), where she played opposite Louis Garrel , then she joined the cast of Danièle Thompson ‘s family and choral comedy People Who Kiss Each Other (2013) and then slip into the skin of a James Bond Girl in 007 Specter alongside the athletic spy Daniel Craig .