Real Name: Monica Anna Maria Bellucci
Natinality: Italian actress
Date of Birth : 30 September 1964
Height 5' 7" (1.70 m)
Monica Anna Maria Bellucci is an Italian actress and fashion model.
She was born in 1964 in the Italian village of Citt? di Castello, Umbria, Bellucci originally pursued a career in the legal profession. While attending the University of Perugia, she modeled on the side to earn money for school, and this led to her modeling career. In 1988, she moved to one of Europe's fashion centers, Milan, and joined Elite Model Management. Although enjoying great success as a model, she made her acting debuton TV in 1990, and her American film debut in 1992Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992). Her role in the 1996 French thriller, L'appartement (1996), shot her to stardom as she won the French equivalent of an Oscar nomination. Other credits include Mal??na (2000), Under Suspicion (2000) andLe pacte des loups (2001).
Bellucci, the daughter of Maria Gustinelli, a painter, and Luigi Bellucci, who owned a trucking company. Bellucci started modelling at 16, when she was attending the Liceo classico. Initially pursuing a career as a lawyer, Bellucci modeled to pay her tuition at the University of Perugia, but the lifestyle tempted her away from her law studies. She speaksItalian, French, and English fluently, Spanish semi-fluently, and she has had speaking roles in each of these languages as well as inAramaic for her part as Mary Magdalene in The Passion of the Christ.
Bellucci was married to fashion photographer Claudio Carlos Basso in 1990. She is currently married to fellow actor Vincent Cassel, with whom she has appeared in several films, and has a daughter named Deva (born 12 September 2004). The couple is expecting their second child in the spring of 2010. In 2004, while pregnant with her daughter, Bellucci posed nude for the Italian Vanity Fair Magazine in protest against Italian laws that prevent the use of donor sperm.
In a documentary movie The Big Question about the film The Passion of the Christ, she stated: "I am an agnostic, even though I respect and am interested in all religions. If there's something I believe in, it's a mysterious energy; the one that fills the oceans during tides, the one that unites nature and beings."[7]
Bellucci's film career began in the early 1990s. She played some minor roles in La Riffa (1991) and Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992). In 1996 she was nominated for a C?sar Award for best supporting actress for her portrayal of Lisa in L'Appartement and strengthened her position as an actress. She became known and popular with worldwide audiences, following her roles in Mal??na (2000), Irr?versible (2002) and has played in many films from Europeand Hollywood like Tears of the Sun (2003), The Matrix Reloaded (2003), The Passion of the Christ (2004), The Brothers Grimm (2005), Le Deuxi??me souffle (2007), Don't Look Back (2009), etc.
She appeared in a black & white TV commercial for Dolce & Gabbana. The director was Giuseppe Tornatore, who also directed her in the movieMal??na (2000).
She was supposed to be seen portraying Indian politician Sonia Gandhi in the biopic Sonia, originally planned for release in 2007, but it has beenshelved.
Bellucci dubbed her own voice for the French and Italian releases of the film Shoot 'Em Up (2007). And she also voiced Kaileena in the video game Prince of Persia: Warrior Within, and the French voice of Cappy for the French version of the 2005 animated film Robots.
Fluent in Italian, English, French and Spanish.
Daughter-in-law of Jean-Pierre Cassel.
Studied jurisprudence for a short time.
Daughter, Deva Cassel (born 12 September 2004 in Rome, Italy).
Engaged to actor Nicola Farron from 1990 to 1995.
She was elected the most beautiful woman in the world by French viewers on a TV show "La Plus belle femme du monde" on 8th November 2004.
One of the world's top fashion models.
She doesn't always live with her husband Vincent Cassel, for avoiding routine the two live in separate apartments; she lives most of the time in London and he lives in Paris.
Bellucci is a typical surname from center Italy, it comes from the Latin word "Bellutus", and has the same root as surnames like Belluto, Belluti, Belluzzo, Belluccio, or the aristocratic surname of Belluzzi.
She speaks to her daughter Deva Cassel in Italian.
She has said in an interview that Sophia Loren and Claudia Cardinale have inspired her acting career.
She has a wax statue in the Grevin Museum in Paris.
Her parents are Pasquale Bellucci (the owner of a trucking company) and Brunella (a painter).
She's an only child.
Good friends with Guillaume Canet.
Attended University of Perugia.
Mother is painter Maria Gustinelli.
Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history.
Her best friend is Ilaria D'Amico.
| Like it? Share! |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |