Monica Bellucci

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Monica Anna Maria Bellucci (Città di Castello, September 30, 1964), known as Monica Bellucci, is an Italian model and actress. She started working as a fashion model for Dolce & Gabbana and Dior, before delving into acting as a film actress in Italy, the United States and France.[citation needed]

Biography

Monica Bellucci was born in the Italian town of Città di Castello (Umbria), the only daughter of Pasquale Bellucci, owner of a trucking company, and Brunella Briganti, a painter. She began working as a model at the age of 16, when he was in high school. Her first professional steps were directed towards practicing law, although she decided to work as a model to pay for her studies at the University of Perugia, her fashion lifestyle led her to abandon her law degree.

She married fashion photographer Claudio Carlos Basso in 1990, but they divorced the following year.

Later, her next husband was the French actor Vincent Cassel, with whom she coincided in numerous films and whose separation was made public on August 26, 2013. They have two daughters together: Deva (born September 12, 2004) and Léonie (born May 21, 2010).

After their divorce, numerous tabloid magazines linked her to Telman Ismailov, a 56-year-old Russian billionaire of Azerbaijani origins.

She is fluent in three languages: Italian (her mother tongue), French and English; and some Spanish. She has played roles speaking all those languages, as well as Aramaic for her role as Mary Magdalene in The Passion of the Christ and Serbian in Emir Kusturica's film On the Milky Road (2016).

In 2004, while pregnant with Deva, Bellucci posed nude for the Italian edition of Vanity Fair magazine in protest against Italian laws banning sperm donation. pregnant and half-naked for the magazine in April 2010, during her second pregnancy.

In the documentary The Big Question, about the film The Passion of the Christ, she commented: "I am an agnostic, although I respect and am interested in all religions. If there is something that I believe in, it is in the mysterious energy; the one that fills the oceans during the waves, the one that unites nature with beings".

Since 2017, she was romantically linked to the French sculptor Nicolas Lefebvre, 18 years younger than Belluci. Although at the beginning of July 2018 they decided to end their life together.


Professional career

Model

In 1988, he moved to one of the nerve centers of European fashion, Milan, signing for the prestigious firm Elite Model Management. In 1989 she was already a recognized model in Paris and even on the other side of the Atlantic, in New York. She posed for Dolce & Gabbana and for the French brand Elle, among others. That same year, Monica Bellucci is attracted to the cinema, she takes acting classes, to become an actress.

In February 2001, she appeared on the cover of Esquire magazine and in 2003 on Maxim. most beautiful in the world of AskMen. Bellucci's modeling career is managed by Elite+ in New York. She is considered an Italian sex symbol She is currently the face of the Dior Cosmetics line.

Actress

Monica Bellucci at the Festival de Cannes in 2002.
Monica Bellucci at San Sebastian International Film Festival 2017.

His film career began in the early 1990s. He played brief roles in La Riffa (1991) and Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992). In 1996 she was nominated for the César Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Lisa in L'appartement and consolidated her position as an actress. In 1998 she participated in the film To those who aman, by the Spanish director Isabel Coixet.

His popularity rose worldwide after his roles in several successful European films, such as Malèna (2000) by Giuseppe Tornatore, The Pact of the Wolves (2001) and Irreversible (2002).

Since then he has worked in several European and North American films such as: Under Suspicion (2000), with Gene Hackman and Morgan Freeman; Asterix and Obelix: Mission Cleopatra (2002), with Gérard Depardieu; Tears of the Sun (2003), with Bruce Willis; The Matrix Reloaded (2003), by the Wachowski sisters; The Passion of the Christ (2004), directed by Mel Gibson; The Brothers Grimm (2005), by Terry Gilliam; Le Deuxieme souffle (2007); Shoot 'Em Up (2007), with Clive Owen; Ne te retourne pas (2009); and The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010).

He has mainly participated in various film noir films, such as the controversial Irreversible, where an explicit and violent rape is exposed, and En el punto de mira. He has also ventured into science fiction films such as Matrix Revolutions and action films such as Tears of the Sun , alongside Bruce Willis.

Bellucci was to play Indian politician Sonia Gandhi in the biopic Sonia, originally planned for a 2007 release, but the project was cancelled.

Monica Bellucci in 2008.

The actress dubbed her own voice for the French and Italian versions of the film Shoot 'Em Up (2007). She also provided the voice of Kaileena in the video game Prince of Persia: Warrior Within and provided the French voice of Cappy in the dubbing of the animated feature Robots (2005).

In 2015, he starred in Spectre, the 24th film in the James Bond saga, alongside Daniel Craig. With her role, she became the oldest Bond girl (50 years old), a participation that was not without criticism due to controversies about the age of a Bond girl.

In 2022, he shared credits with Liam Neeson in the thriller “The Memory Of A Murderer”.

Her projects in 2023 are the TV series “Radical Eye: The Life And Times Of Tina Modotti” and the cinema is shooting the films “Siccità” and “Mafia Mamma”.

Filmography

Cinema

Year Title Character Notes
1990 Vita coi figliElda
1991 The RaffleFrancesca
1992 Bram Stoker's DraculaDracula Lover
1992 Ostinato DestinationMarina / Angela
1994 Briganti – Amore e libertàCostanza
1994 I Mitici (The Heroes [Ing])Deborah
1995 Palla di neve (Snowball [Ing])Melina
1995 Il cielo è sempre più blu (Bits and Pieces [Ing])
1995 JosephWife of Pharaoh
1996 L'appartementLisa
1996 Sorellina and il principe del sognoPrincess
1997 Stressati
1997 DobermannNat the Gypsy
1997 Mauvais genreCamille
1997 Eat my vuoiNellina
1998 Le PlaisirGirl
1998 CompromiseMonique
1998 Kaputt MundiGiulia Giovannini
1998 To those who loveValeria
1999 Eat a poisson hors de l'eauMyrtille
1999 MediterraneanMarguerite
2000 Under SuspicionChantal Hearst
2000 Franck SpadoneLaura.
2000 MalènaMalèna Scordia
2001 Le Pacte des loupsSylvia
2002 Astérix et Obélix: Mission CléopâtreCleopatra
2002 IrreversibleAlex
2003 Ricordati di meAlessia
2003 Sinbad: Legend of the Seven SeasMarina Voice. Folding in French
2003 Tears of the SunLena Fiore Kendricks
2003 The Matrix ReloadedPerséfone
2003 The Matrix RevolutionsPerséfone
2004 The Passion of the ChristMary Magdalene
2004 Agents SecretsBarbara / Lisa
2004 She Hate MeSimona Bonasera
2005 RobotsCappy Voice. Folding in French
2005 The Brothers GrimmThe Queen of Mirror
2005 Eat your m'aimes?Daniela
2006 SheitanThe belle vampiresse
2006 N. Napoleon and IBaroness Emilia Speziali
2006 The Stone CouncilLaura Siprien
2007 HeartangoL'inafferrabile
2007 Manuale d'amore 2Lucia
2007 Shoot 'Em UpDonna Quintano
2007 Le deuxième souffleManouche
2008 SanguepazzoLuisa Ferida
2008 L'uomo che lovesAlba
2009 Don't Look BackJeanne
2009 The Private Lives of Pippa LeeGigi Lee
2009 Baarìa – The Porta del ventoBride of Bricklayer
2009 Imagine RomeTosca
2010 The WhistleblowerLaura Levin
2010 The Sorcerer's ApprenticeVeronica
2010 Rose, c'est ParisL'esprit de gala
2011 Manuale d'amore 3Viola
2011 A Burning Hot SummerAngèle
2012 Rhino SeasonMina
2013 Des gens qui s'embrassentGiovanna
2014 Lungo la Via Lattea
2014 The Wonders Milly Catena
2014 Na QuebradaPaola
2015 Ville-Marie Sophie.
2015 SpectreLucia Sciarra
2016 On the Milky RoadNevesta
2016 Mozart in the jungleAlessandra
2018-2019 Call My Agent!She herself
2018 NekrotronicFinnegan
2019 The Best Years of a LifeElena
2019 Spider in the WebAngela
2020 The Man Who Sold His SkinSoraya Waldy
TBA Radical Eye: The Life and Times of Tina ModottiTina Modotti
2021 Les Fantasmes
TBA The Befana comes At Night 2: The OriginsDolores

Television

Year Title Character
2016 Mozart in the Jungle Alessandra Personage invited, 5 Episodes
2017 Twin Peaks: The Return She herself Episode: "Part 14"
2018 Call My Agent! She herself 2 Episode

Video Games

Year Title Character
2003 Enter the Matrix Persephone
2004 Prince of Persia: Warrior Within Kaileena

Video Clips

Year Original title Performer BSO Movie Notes
2015 Writing's on the WallSam Smith SpectreSpectre
  • Golden Globe 2016, Best Original Song.

Awards and nominations

Year Otorga Prize Labour Outcome
1997 César Awards Most promising actress The Apartment Nominated
2001 European Film Awards Audience Award for Best Actress Malèna Nominated
2003 Saturn Award Best Support Actress Brotherhood of the Wolf Nominated
2003 Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Silver Ribbon for Best Soprte Actress Ricordati di me He won.
2003 Cinescape Genre Face of the Future Award Better feminine The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions Nominated
2003 David di Donatello Awards Best Support Actress Ricordati di me Nominated
2003 Teen Choice Awards Choice Movie for Star female revelation The Matrix Reloaded and Tears of the Sun Nominated
2004 MTV Movie Awards Better kiss The Matrix Reloaded Nominated
2005 Globo d'oro European Golden Globe He won.
2005 Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Silver Ribbon for Best Support Actress The Passion of the Christ Nominated
2007 Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Silver Ribbon for Best Support Actress N Nominated
2017 San Sebastian Film Festival Honorary Prize Donostia He won.
2017 Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists European Nastro D'Argento On the Milky Road He won.
2020 Magritte Award Magritte Honorary Prize He won.
2021 David di Donatello Awards David Speciale He won.

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