Monica Bellucci

Biography

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. Bellucci played a Bride of Dracula in Francis Ford Coppola's gothic horror romance film Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) and Malèna Scordia in the Italian-language romantic drama Malèna (2000). She was in the controversial Gaspar Noé arthouse horror film Irréversible (2002), and portrayed Mary Magdalene in Mel Gibson's biblical drama The Passion of the Christ (2004). In the 2003 science-fiction films The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, she played Persephone. In the 2015 James Bond film Spectre, she became the oldest Bond girl in the history of the franchise. Description above from the Wikipedia article Monica Bellucci, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

The Matrix Reloaded

as Persephone

Spectre

as Lucia

The Matrix Revolutions

as Persephone

Bram Stoker's Dracula

as Dracula's Bride

The Sorcerer's Apprentice

as Veronica Gorloisen

The Passion of the Christ

as Magdalena

Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra

as Cléopâtre

Irreversible

as Alex

The Brothers Grimm

as Mirror Queen

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

as Delores