Monica Bellucci
Monica Anna Maria Bellucci (Italian: [ˈmɔːnika belˈluttʃi]; born 30 September 1964) is an Italian actress and model. She began her career as a fashion model, modelling for Dolce & Gabbana and Dior, before making a transition to Italian films and later American and French films.
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Born | Monica Anna Maria Bellucci 30 September 1964 Città di Castello, Umbria, Italy |
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Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) |
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Bellucci made her film debut in Francesco Laudadio's Italian comedy La Riffa (1991). The following year she played a Bride of Dracula in Francis Ford Coppola's gothic horror romance film Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992). For her leading role in L'Appartement (1996), Bellucci received a nomination at the 1997 César Award for Most Promising Actress. She played Malèna Scordia in the Giuseppe Tornatore's acclaimed Italian romantic drama Malèna (2000). Bellucci starred in Gaspar Noé's controversial arthouse psychological thriller film Irréversible (2002), which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.
In 2004, she portrayed Mary Magdalene in Mel Gibson's biblical drama The Passion of the Christ (2004). Bellucci portrayed Persephone in the 2003 science-fiction films The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions. At the age of 50, by appearing in the 2015 James Bond film Spectre, she became the oldest Bond girl in the history of the franchise. Bellucci has since acted in films such as The Whistleblower (2010), The Wonders (2014), On the Milky Road (2016), The Best Years of a Life (2019), The Man Who Sold His Skin (2020), and Memory (2022).
Among her accolades are two Globo d'oro Awards, two Nastro d'Argento Awards, a Donostia Award, and a David Special Award. Bellucci received the Knight insignia of the Legion of Honour in 2016. She is a permanent member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Early life
Bellucci was born 30 September 1964 in Città di Castello, Umbria,[1] the only child of Brunella Briganti and Pasquale Bellucci, and grew up in Lama, now Selci-Lama, in the Comune of San Giustino.[2][3][4]
Career
Modelling
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Monica Bellucci began modelling at age 13 by posing for a local photo enthusiast.[5] In 1988, Bellucci left the Faculty of Law at the University of Perugia,[6] and moved to one of Europe's fashion centers, Milan, where she signed with Elite Model Management with the aid of model agent Piero Piazzi.[7] By 1989, she was becoming prominent as a fashion model in Paris and across the Atlantic, in New York City. She posed for Dolce & Gabbana and French Elle, among others. In that year, Bellucci made the transition to acting and began taking acting classes. The February 2001 Esquire's feature on Desire featured Bellucci on the cover and in an article on the five senses.
In 2003, she was featured in Maxim.[8] Men's Health also named her one of the "100 Hottest Women of All-Time", ranking her at No. 21.[9] AskMen named her the number one most desirable woman in 2002.[10] According to two national newspapers, she is considered an Italian sex symbol.[11][12]
In 2004, while pregnant with her daughter Deva, Bellucci posed nude for the Italian Vanity Fair in protest against an Italian law that restricts the provision of fertility treatment to heterosexual couples and excludes single women or same-sex couples, restricts surrogacy and research using human embryos, forbids sperm and egg donation, and limits the number of embryos created with in-vitro techniques to three.[13] She posed pregnant and semi-nude again for the magazine's April 2010 issue.[14] From 2006 to 2010 Bellucci was the face of a range of Dior products.[15]
In 2012, she became the new face of Dolce & Gabbana.[16] She is managed by Elite+ in New York City. Bellucci is signed to D'management Group in Milan and also to Storm Management in London.[17] Bellucci also posed for GQ Italia in February 2016.[18]
Bellucci walked the runway for the Spring 2019 Milan Fashion Week for Dolce and Gabbana.[19] Joining her included Isabella Rossellini, Eva Herzigová and Helena Christensen, continuing the influx of 90s supermodels returning to the spotlight of fashion.
Acting

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 1997, she was nominated for a César Award for Most Promising Actress for her portrayal of Lisa in The Apartment and strengthened her position as an actress.[20] She became known and popular with worldwide audiences, following her roles in Malèna (2000), Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001) and Irréversible (2002).
She has since played in many films from Europe and Hollywood like Tears of the Sun (2003), The Matrix Reloaded (2003), The Passion of the Christ (2004), The Brothers Grimm (2005), Le Deuxième souffle (2007), Shoot 'Em Up (2007), Don't Look Back (2009) and The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010).[21][22]
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. She was supposed to be seen portraying Indian politician Sonia Gandhi in the biopic Sonia, initially planned for release in 2007, but it has been shelved.[23] Bellucci dubbed her own voice for the French and Italian releases of the film Shoot 'Em Up (2007), saying it was a frequent practice to "do each film three times".[24]
In 2011, Bellucci was ranked fourth in Los Angeles Times Magazine's list of the 50 most beautiful women in film.[25]
At 50, she became the oldest Bond girl ever in the James Bond film franchise, playing Lucia Sciarra in Spectre (2015).[26]
In 2017, Bellucci was invited by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to be a permanent member representing Italy, becoming one of the voting juries responsible for awarding the annual Academy Awards (Oscars).[27][28] That same year, she received a Donostia Award, an honorary award recognising her entire career.[29] She later appeared in the Australian film Nekrotronic.[30]
In 2021, she received a David Special Award to recognise her career achievement at the 66th David di Donatello ceremony.[31]
Personal life
At the age of 20, Bellucci married Italian photographer Claudio Carlos Basso; they divorced after six months.[32][33]
From 1989 to 1995, she had a relationship with Italian actor Nicola Farron.[34][35]
She met French actor Vincent Cassel on the set of their 1996 film The Apartment.[36] They married on 2 August 1999 in Monaco.[37] Bellucci and Cassel have two daughters, Deva Cassel (born 12 September 2004) and Léonie (born 21 May 2010). Their daughters were born in Rome.[38][39] Bellucci and Cassel acted together in nine films from 1996 to 2006.[40] The couple announced their separation on 26 August 2013[36] and later divorced.[41] At the end of 2014, Bellucci said she was still enamoured of Cassel; both have remained close ever since.[42]
After her divorce, Bellucci was in a relationship with French sculptor and former model Nicolas Lefebvre, who was then 37 years old. They made it official in early March 2019 during a Chanel show at the Grand Palais in Paris.[43] She announced the end of their relationship in early July 2019.[44]
Bellucci lived with Cassel and their daughters in Italy, France, Brazil, and England.[37] Then, in 2015, she decided to settle in Paris. Bellucci says, "Paris is part of my history", but she nevertheless considers herself "completely Italian. Everything in me is Italian."[45] She has houses in Lisbon and Rome.[46] During the coronavirus lockdowns, Bellucci and Cassel lived in two nearby houses on the Basque coast (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) so that the latter could see his daughters and thus continue to share parental duties.[47]
Bellucci is fluent in Italian, French, and English.[48][49] Deva became Dolce & Gabbana's muse at the age of 15 and, later, their runway model.[50][51] Her daughters' native language is Italian;[52] Deva spoke five languages at the age of 16.[53]
In the documentary movie The Big Question, about the film The Passion of the Christ, Bellucci 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."[54][55]
In 2009, Bellucci signed a petition in support of director Roman Polanski, who had been detained while traveling to a film festival in relation to his 1977 sexual abuse charges, which the petition argued would undermine the tradition of film festivals as a place for works to be shown "freely and safely", and that arresting filmmakers traveling to neutral countries could open the door "for actions of which no-one can know the effects."[56][57]
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1991 | La Riffa | Francesca | |
1992 | Bram Stoker's Dracula | one of Dracula's brides | |
Ostinato Destino | Marina/Angela | ||
1994 | Briganti – Amore e libertà | Costanza | |
I mitici – Colpo gobbo a Milano | Deborah | ||
1995 | Palla di neve | Melina | |
Il cielo è sempre più blu | |||
Bible: Joseph (miniseries) | Pharaoh's wife | ||
1996 | L'Appartement | Lisa | |
Sorellina e il principe del sogno | Princess | ||
1997 | Stressati | ||
Dobermann | Nat the Gypsy | ||
Mauvais genre | Camille | ||
Come mi vuoi | Nellina | ||
1998 | Le Plaisir | Girl | |
Compromise | Monique | ||
Kaputt Mundi | Giulia Giovannini | ||
A los que aman | Valeria | ||
1999 | Comme un poisson hors de l'eau | Myrtille | |
Méditerranées | Marguerite | ||
2000 | Under Suspicion | Chantal Hearst | |
Franck Spadone | Laura | ||
Malèna | Malèna Scordia | ||
2001 | Brotherhood of the Wolf | Sylvia | |
2002 | Astérix & Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre | Cleopatra | |
Irréversible | Alex | ||
2003 | Remember Me, My Love | Alessia | |
Tears of the Sun | Dr. Lena Fiore Kendricks | ||
The Matrix Reloaded | Persephone | ||
The Matrix Revolutions | Persephone | ||
2004 | The Passion of the Christ | Mary Magdalene | |
Secret Agents | Barbara/Lisa | ||
She Hate Me | Simona Bonasera | ||
2005 | The Brothers Grimm | The Mirror Queen | |
How Much Do You Love Me? | Daniela | ||
2006 | Sheitan | Beautiful Vampire Girl | |
2006 | Napoleon and Me | Baroness Emilia Speziali | |
The Stone Council | Laura Siprien | ||
2007 | Heartango | L'inafferrabile | |
Manual of Love 2 | Lucia | ||
Shoot 'Em Up | Donna Quintano | ||
Le deuxième souffle | Manouche | ||
2008 | Sanguepazzo | Luisa Ferida | |
L'uomo che ama | Alba | ||
2009 | Ne te retourne pas | Jeanne | |
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee | Gigi Lee | ||
Baarìa – La porta del vento | Bricklayer's girlfriend | ||
Omaggio a Roma | Tosca | ||
2010 | The Whistleblower | Laura Leviani | |
The Sorcerer's Apprentice | Veronica Gorloisen | ||
Rose, c'est Paris | L'esprit de gala | ||
2011 | Manuale d'amore 3 | Viola | |
Un été brûlant | Angèle | ||
2012 | Rhino Season | Mina | |
2013 | Des gens qui s'embrassent | Giovanna | |
2014 | The Wonders | Milly Catena | |
Na Quebrada | Paola | ||
2015 | Ville-Marie | Sophie | |
Spectre | Lucia Sciarra | ||
2016 | On the Milky Road | Nevesta | |
2018 | Nekrotronic | Finnegan | |
2019 | The Best Years of a Life | Elena | |
Spider in the Web | Angela | ||
2020 | The Man Who Sold His Skin | Soraya Waldy | |
2021 | Fantasies (Les Fantasmes)[58] | Sabrina | |
The Befana Comes At Night 2: The Origins (La Befana vien di notte II - Le origini) | Dolores | ||
The Girl in the Fountain[59] | Anita Ekberg | ||
2022 | Memory | Davana Sealman | |
Dry | Valentina | ||
Diabolik - Ginko on the attack! (Diabolik - Ginko all'attacco!) | Altea di Vallenberg[60] | ||
2023 | Mafia Mamma | Biyanka | |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1990 | Vita coi figli | Elda | TV movie |
1995 | Joseph | Pharaoh's Wife | TV movie |
2011 | R.I.S. Roma - Delitti Imperfetti | Herself | 1 episode |
2011 | Platane | Herself | 1x4, "La fois où Monica Bellucci a failli signer" ("The one where Monica Bellucci almost got signed") |
2016 | Mozart in the Jungle | Alessandra | Guest role; 5 episodes |
2017 | Twin Peaks: The Return | Herself (Monica Bellucci's dream) | Episode: "Part 14" |
2018 | Il Miracolo | the Virgin Mary (dream sequence) | 1 episode |
2018 | Call My Agent! | Herself | 2 episodes |
2021 | L'Amour Fluo | Valéria | 9 episodes |
TBA | Ark: The Animated Series | Post-production, upcoming series | |
Video games
Year | Title | Voice role |
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2003 | Enter the Matrix | Persephone |
2004 | Prince of Persia: Warrior Within | Kaileena |
2005 | The Matrix Online | Persephone |
Dubbing roles
Year | Film | Role | Notes |
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2003 | Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas | Marina | French dub |
2005 | Robots | Cappy | French dub |
Accolades
Awards and nominations
Award | Year | Work | Category | Result | Ref(s) |
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César Awards | 1997 | L'Appartement | Most Promising Actress | Nominated | [61][62] |
David di Donatello | 2003 | Remember Me, My Love | Best Supporting Actress | Nominated | [63][64] |
Dublin International Film Festival – Dublin Film Critics' Circle selection | 2016 | Ville-Marie | Best Actress | Won | [65] |
European Film Awards | 2001 | Malèna | Jameson People's Choice Award for Best Actress | Nominated | [66] |
Globo d'oro | 1998 | L'ultimo capodanno | Best Actress | Won | [67][68] |
Maria Callas Monaco Gala Awards | 2022 | Lettres et Mémoires de Maria Callas | Best Artist (theater play) | Won | [69] |
MTV Movie & TV Awards | 2004 | The Matrix Reloaded | Best Kiss (with Keanu Reeves) | Nominated | [70] |
Nastro d'Argento | 2003 | Remember Me, My Love | Best Supporting Actress | Won | [71] |
2005 | The Passion of the Christ | Nominated | [72][73] | ||
2007 | Napoleon and Me | Nominated | [73][74] | ||
2017 | On the Milky Road | European Silver Ribbon Award | Won | [73] | |
Saturn Awards | 2002 | Le pacte des loups | Best Supporting Actress | Nominated | [75][76] |
2003 | The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions | Cinescape Face of the Future Award – Female | Nominated | [77][78] | |
Teen Choice Awards | 2003 | Tears of the Sun and The Matrix Reloaded | Choice Breakout Movie Actress | Nominated | [79][80] |
Special awards
Ceremony | Year | Award | Ref(s) |
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Chinese Business Club as part of International Women's Day | 2020 | Woman of the Year Award | [81] |
Cityfest – Cinema Foundation for Rome | 2017 | Virna Lisi Prize | [82] |
David di Donatello | 2021 | David Special (Career David di Donatello Award) | [83][84] |
Filming in Italy Festival – Los Angeles | 2018 | Career Achievement Award | [85][86] |
IIC Los Angeles Creativity Award for Italian Excellence in the World | |||
Flaiano Prizes | 2021 | International Flaiano Lifetime Achievement Award | [87] |
Globo d'oro | 2005 | European Golden Globe | [88] |
Ischia Global Film and Music Festival | 2012 | Ischia Award for Actor of the Year | [89] |
Los Cabos International Film Festival | 2016 | Lifetime Achievement Award | [90] |
Lumières Award | 2018 | Honorary Lumières Award | [91] |
Magritte Awards | 2020 | Honorary Magritte Award | [92] |
Monte-Carlo Film Festival | 2017 | Career Achievement Award | [93] |
San Sebastián International Film Festival | 2017 | Donostia Award for Career Achievement | [94] |
Taormina Film Fest | 2011 | Taormina Arte Award | [95] |
Torino Film Festival | 2021 | Lifetime Achievement Award | [96] |
Stella della Mole Award for Artistic Innovation | [59] | ||
Trieste Film Festival | 2017 | Eastern Star Award | [97] |
Women's World Award | 2009 | World Actress Award | [98][99] |
State honours
Decorations
Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters
In 2006, Bellucci was conferred with the Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by former President of France Nicolas Sarkozy at the Élysée Palace.[100]
Knight of the Legion of Honour
In 2016, she received the Legion of Honour from former President of France François Hollande at the Élysée Palace.[101]
Other honours
Country | Year | Honour | Ref(s) |
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Belgium | 2019 | Inducted into the Ostend's Walk of Fame | [102] |
Italy | 2010 | Vittorio De Sica medal for Italian cinema from former President of Italy Giorgio Napolitano | [103] |
2020 | Key to the City of Florence | [104] |
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External links
- http://www.monicabellucci.netArchived+2020-10-03+at+the+Wayback+Machine at Official Web Site
- Monica Bellucci at the TCM Movie Database
- Monica Bellucci at the British Film Institute
- Monica Bellucci at Fashion Model Directory
- Monica Bellucci at AllMovie
- Monica Bellucci at Rotten Tomatoes
- Monica Bellucci at IMDb