Monica Bellucci
Real Name: Monica Bellucci
Date of Birth: 30 September 1968
Place of birth: Citta di Castello, Umbria, Italy
Profession: Actress
Monica Bellucci set out to pursue a career in the legal profession. While she was studying jurisprudence at the University of Perugia, she began to model on the side for extra money. Luckily for her millions of fans, her side job soon 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 debut on TV in 1990, and her American film debut in 1992’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992). After a starring role in the French thriller film, L’Appartement (1996) she earned the French equivalent to an Oscar nomination, propelling her career even furhter.
The Matrix of Monica Bellucci
Even if American audiences didn’t catch a glimpse of the stunning brunette in the 2000 drama, Under Suspicion, as Gene Hackman’s trophy wife. She followed that up with a role in the French film, Franck Spadone. The Italian film Malena (2000), in which Monica starred in the title role, received critical acclaim and catapulted her to fame. The movie was nominated for 14 awards, including a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, and continues to be one of the roles to best showcase her dramatic talent.
Monica Bellucci has several movies slated for 2005 and 2006; stay tuned.
If American audiences still weren’t familiar with Bellucci, they were sure to catch her in 2003’s Tears of the Sun, with Bruce Willis, and of course, as Persephone in the highly anticipated sequels to 1999’s The Matrix: The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions. She also had many honors of international audiences, magazines, websites and more declaring her one of the most beautiful women in the world year after year.
