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Monica Bellucci
Bellucci in 2016
Born
Monica Anna Maria Bellucci

(1964-09-30) 30 September 1964 (age 60)
Città di Castello, Umbria, Italy
Occupations
  • Actress
  • fashion model
Years active
  • 1980–present (model)
  • 1990–present (actress)
Height1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Spouses
  • Claudio Carlos Basso
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    (m. 1984; div. 1985)​
  • ​
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    (m. 1999; div. 2013)​
PartnerNicola Farron (1989–1995)
Children2

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, Cartier, and Dior, before transitioning to Italian films and later American and French films.

Bellucci made her film debut in Francesco Laudadio's Italian comedy La Riffa (1991) and went on to play a bride of Dracula in Francis Ford Coppola's gothic horror romance film Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992). For her leading role in The Apartment (1996), Bellucci received a nomination at the 1997 César Award for Most Promising Actress. She captured American audiences' attention in Stephen Hopkins' Under Suspicion (2000). She gained greater international recognition by portraying Malèna Scordia in Giuseppe Tornatore's acclaimed Italian romantic drama Malèna (2000). Bellucci starred in Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001) and in a comedic role in Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra (2002). She starred in Gaspar Noé's controversial arthouse thriller Irréversible (2002), carried with her fearless performance.

Bellucci portrayed Persephone in the 2003 science-fiction films The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions. She portrayed Mary Magdalene in Mel Gibson's biblical drama The Passion of the Christ (2004). She starred in The Brothers Grimm (2005), How Much Do You Love Me? (2005), Shoot 'Em Up (2007), The Whistleblower (2010), The Ages of Love (2011), The Wonders (2014), and Ville-Marie (2015). At the age of 50, by appearing in the 2015 James Bond film Spectre, Bellucci became the oldest Bond girl in the history of the franchise. Continuing her international multilingual acting career, she has since acted in films such as On the Milky Road (2016), The Best Years of a Life (2019), The Man Who Sold His Skin (2020), and Memory (2022). Bellucci made her stage debut in 2019, initiating a long series of interpretations of the Letters and Memoirs of Maria Callas.

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

Monica Anna Maria Bellucci was born in Città di Castello, Umbria, on 30 September 1964.[2][3] Her father, Pasquale Bellucci, owned a trucking company. Her mother, Brunella Briganti, was a housewife and amateur painter. She is their only child, as her parents did not want another one.[4][5] Bellucci grew up in Lama (now Selci-Lama), in the comune of San Giustino, on the outskirts of Città di Castello.[5][6]

Bellucci received a Catholic education.[7] She was known to be an "intelligent child".[8] Her parents described her as "discreet" and "aware of her advantageous physique", with a growing interest in fashion. She was distant from other children her age, regularly making detours to get home after school and did not spend time with them around the comune's public space, with her father recalling that she complained that everyone stared at her. By then, her father had helped her to gain self-confidence.[5] A taste for cinema would not cease to animate Bellucci, watching Italian films by Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Roberto Rossellini, Luchino Visconti, and also by Marcel Carné and Jean-Luc Godard.[9]

Modelling career

Bellucci was introduced to modelling at age 13 by posing for a photographer friend of the family in Città di Castello.[10] Piero Montanucci, a hairdresser from Città di Castello, met her while hitchhiking and persuaded her to become his model. Bellucci, a student of the Liceo classico, did not go unnoticed and caught people's eyes wherever they went.[11] A friend of her father, the director of a fashion agency, asked her to do fashion shoots when she was 16.[4][12] Dressed by Città di Castello-based fashion entrepreneur Pina Alberti, Bellucci enthralled the crowd at a fashion show held in 1983 at the Teatro degli Illuminati (the city's municipal theatre) as part of the Momento Donna event hosted by Maria Giovanna Elmi.[13] At that time, Montanucci was her mentor.[5] While in school, her father's friend allowed her to debut on the runway during a fashion show in Florence and a second in Milan.[4][12] She would then begin to do three fashion shows a year.[4]

A black=and=white fashion photograph of Bellucci at age 25
Bellucci at the Hôtel Raphael in Paris, March 1990

Bellucci, who planned to become a lawyer, studied at the university of Perugia.[8][14] She financed her studies by working as a model[8] through her father's friend.[15] In 1988, she was featured on the cover of Vogue Spain and Elle France, photographed by Oliviero Toscani.[16][17] A friend encouraged her to apply to Milan modelling agencies during her studies.[8] Bellucci moved to one of Europe's fashion centres, Milan, where Elite Model Management spotted her and signed her to a contract in 1989.[12][18] Her work as a model for Elite led her to travel soon after, and she decided to leave the university due to this context. Bellucci would say later that being a lawyer would not have suited her.[14] Modelling agent Piero Piazzi witnessed Bellucci's debut and considered she could be an actress.[19] Represented by Elite, she appeared in numerous international advertising campaigns, and Dolce & Gabbana recruited her to become its muse.[12][18] Bellucci was the Italian model that fashion brands vied to sign her. In 1989, she lived in New York City and was already a dollar millionaire.[20] She became a prominent fashion model in Milan, Paris, and New York.[21][22]

In 1991, Bellucci was the brand ambassador for the French personal-care brand L'Oréal.[23] The same year, she appeared in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, which featured photographs of her in the Caribbean.[24] In 1993, she met Giuseppe Tornatore for the first time when he directed her in a Dolce & Gabbana perfume television advertisement.[25] In the 1990s, she regularly appeared in "sexy" calendar shoots, beginning in 1997 at the age of 33 when Richard Avedon photographed her for the Pirelli Calendar.[26] In 1997, Bellucci became brand ambassador and muse to Cartier.[27][28] Cartier would accompany her throughout her acting career, notably on the red carpets, wearing haute joaillerie (high jewellery) collections, and would work as a model for opulent creations.[29] In 1999, Fabrizio Ferri photographed her for the Max magazine's calendar.[26]

Bellucci posed for the GQ calendar in 2000 and was photographed by Gian Paolo Barbieri.[26] She first appeared on the cover of Paris Match in June 2001.[30] She was featured nude with caviar placed on her breasts on the 2001 cover of Esquire. Many photographs of Bellucci taken by Ferry, notably where she was drizzled with honey, appeared regularly in the two direct competitor magazines, Esquire and GQ's Italian edition.[31] In 2004, while pregnant with her daughter Deva, Bellucci posed nude for the Italian cover of Vanity Fair in protest against the Italian laws that opposed in vitro fertilisation.[32] Also in 2004, it was reported that Bellucci was the only actress contractually bound to Cartier.[33] From 2006 to 2010, she was one of Dior's brand ambassadors and the face of a range of products.[34][35] In 2007, Cartier designed a collection of luxury diamond jewellery with Bellucci as the inspiration.[27] She again posed pregnant and semi-nude for the cover of the April 2010 issue of Vanity Fair Italy.[36]

In 2010, Bellucci appeared in a television advertisement for Martini Gold, a collaboration between Martini and Dolce & Gabbana.[37] Cashmere goods manufacturer Éric Bompard chose Bellucci as the brand ambassador for his winter 2011–2012 advertising campaign.[38] In 2012, she was the face of a Dolce & Gabbana lipstick collection named after her.[39] She was signed to Storm Management in London and D'Management Group in Milan.[40][41] In December 2012, Bellucci made her eighth cover of Paris Match.[30] In August 2015, she was featured on the cover of GQ Italy for the seventh time.[42] She was chosen as the face of German Nivea personal care products for its 2018 and 2019 campaigns.[43] She walked the runway for the Spring 2019 Milan fashion week for Dolce & Gabbana. Joining her included Isabella Rossellini, Eva Herzigová and Helena Christensen, continuing the influx of 90s supermodels returning to the spotlight of fashion.[44]

In late 2022, she was still an ambassador for Cartier.[45] Throughout the decades, she appeared on the covers of Elle, IO Donna, German magazine Madame, Marie Claire, Maxim, and international editions of Harper's Bazaar, Schön!, Vanity Fair, and Vogue, among others.[46]

Acting career

Early roles and breakthrough (1990–1999)

Bellucci made her screen debut in 1990 in the television film Vita coi figli when she was cast after Italian director Dino Risi noticed one of her photographs in a magazine.[14] In 1991, she made her film debut in La Riffa, playing a role Italian director Francesco Laudadio offered her.[47] In 1992, Bellucci played a bride of Dracula in Bram Stoker's Dracula. Initially, Roman Coppola spotted her in the Italian magazine Zoom and then implored his father, Francis Ford, to offer her a role in his film.[25] Francis Ford Coppola then called her to arrange a meeting in Los Angeles while she was in New York for a photo shoot. Discussing with Coppola, she realised she would embark on an acting career.[48] Although she stayed in Los Angeles during filming at Coppola's request, she was apprehensive about the city and, by her own admission, believed that her English level needed improvement. She, therefore, decided that her subsequent work as an actress had to be undertaken in Italy.[14] Nevertheless, her role in Dracula exposed her to the international audience for the first time.[49]

Considering her minor role in Dracula as an experience, Bellucci later returned to Italy to take acting classes to realise her ambitions.[14] "I craved it ... I needed to act", she said,[8] even though she recalled a challenging period while all her friends were leaving the Faculty.[3] She opted to follow her passion for cinema rather than pursue a full-time modelling career.[25] Bellucci had to overcome, not without difficulty, the prejudices related to modelling and her physical appearance and had to work to establish her credibility.[14] She starred in Italian films for the next four years but was dissatisfied due to the country's lack of opportunities as she aspired to an international acting career.[25] She conceded that the Italian film industry needed to invest more money to promote a film internationally.[50] Bellucci eventually moved to France in anticipation of enhanced career prospects.[25] She settled in Paris in 1995.[51]

In 1997, Bellucci was nominated for a César Award for Most Promising Actress for her portrayal of Lisa in The Apartment (1996), which launched her towards stardom in France and strengthened her position as an actress.[25] The film was critically acclaimed by BBC's Almar Haflidason, who gave it the maximum rating of five stars.[52] Her "break-out role" was in the European arthouse film The Apartment, said Gavanndra Hodge of The Sunday Times.[41] Bellucci's second French release was Jan Kounen's Dobermann (1997), in which she portrayed a mute Gipsy and had to learn sign language beforehand to embody her character. Recalling the filming process, she expressed an inclination for stagings "that pass more through bodies than through words".[48] At this point in her career, she made a significant impact on European audiences.[50] In 1998, for her leading role of Giulia Giovannini in the Italian comedy drama film L'ultimo capodanno, Bellucci received a Globo d'oro Award (Italian Golden Globe) for Best Actress.[53][54] The Apartment later won a British Academy Film Award for Best Film Not in the English Language, prompting film director Stephen Hopkins to take a close interest in Bellucci.[48][55]

American films and Irréversible (2000–2003)

Bellucci in a light blue dress and black hair standing next to Alain Chabat in a black suit
Bellucci and film director Alain Chabat at the 2001 César Awards

In 2000, Bellucci caught the attention of American audiences with Hopkins' Under Suspicion, her first English-language lead role, in which she starred opposite Morgan Freeman and Gene Hackman.[50] Hopkins cast Bellucci after observing her perform in The Apartment and then retained her ideas for creating the character of Chantal [Hearst].[50] At this point, an improvement in spoken English was noted.[56] After the film's release, Freeman said, "It's all there in her eyes. She has this quality that reminds me of Jeanne Moreau. There is a sense of having been there, that she's had a life."[50] Variety listed Bellucci among "the ten young actresses to watch", highlighting her interpretation.[57] Under Suspicion was selected as one of the 2000 Cannes Film Festival's closing films,[58] marking her red carpet debut at the annual event.[59] Bellucci returned to Italian cinema in 2000 when she portrayed Malèna Scordia, an enigmatic, envied and coveted war widow whose life unfolded before the captivated eyes of a 13-year-old boy in the Tornatore-directed film Malèna.[50] Mark Salisbury of The Guardian considered Bellucci's role in the Oscar-nominated film as her "breakout performance".[14] She began to become known and popular with global audiences thanks to Malèna.[56] Malèna was Bellucci's first international success and, in addition to her allure, caused her to be "besieged by offers" from Hollywood when Miramax secured the film for US distribution.[25] For the US release, 10 minutes of explicit erotic scenes from the film were removed due to censorship in North America.[60]

Bellucci starred in Christophe Gans' Brotherhood of the Wolf with Samuel Le Bihan and Vincent Cassel, a 2001 French film based on historical events involving the beast of Gévaudan that decimated the population of Gévaudan in Lozère in 18th-century France.[50][61] Writing for The Washington Post, Stephen Hunter found the film's stylistic approach too dense, obscuring Bellucci's "fabulous natural asset", who played an "underused" role as a courtesan–papist spy.[61] The film received mainly positive responses from critics.[62] Brotherhood of the Wolf was a box-office success, attracting 5 million viewers to French movie theatres and grossing US$70 million worldwide, including $11 million in the United States, against a budget of about €32 million.[a][64] Afterwards, the film earned her a Best Supporting Actress nomination at the Saturn Awards in Los Angeles.[65] The filming of Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra (2002) was one of Bellucci's favourite cinematographic experiences, which took place in a laughing atmosphere and where Jamel Debbouze's amusing pleasantries were heard.[66] She portrayed the "prickly" Cleopatra, the Queen of Egypt, in the comedy film directed by Alain Chabat.[67] The Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw wrote that she was "certainly talented enough ... to merit getting the role of Cleopatra in some serious treatment", but until then, she had to perform in a "funny mainstream commercial" French production.[68] The film was a great success, selling 14 million tickets in France at the time of its release and grossing more than $128 million worldwide.[67][69]

Bellucci in a white dress, posing for photographers
Bellucci at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival for the promotion of Irréversible

In 2002, Bellucci co-starred with Cassel in the "violent" arthouse thriller Irréversible by Gaspar Noé.[56][70] Shot on 16 mm with hand-held cameras, the revenge film depicted Bellucci playing Alex, where she was also seen graphically raped for nine minutes without a break in an underpass, a scene she had to shoot four times.[14] Bellucci's "indelible scene" was filmed in an underpass frequented by prostitutes on the outskirts of Paris. Bellucci and Cassel, a couple at the time, were some of "the country's biggest talents".[71] Irréversible premiered at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival at midnight on 24 May and was described as "unsustainable", while others called it an "accomplished work".[72] Causing outrage, it was reported "visceral" reactions from the audience during the film's screening, including fainting, nervous breakdowns and 200 hasty departures, and people passed out in the lobby.[72][73] Lisa Nesselson of Variety thought Bellucci showed "responses to peril and joy particularly memorable".[74] Subsequently, the film has been studied in film schools.[59][75] Noé said he "has never seen an actress so charismatic, with that much guts ... her performance is incredibly audacious".[76] K. Austin Collins of Rolling Stone called Irréversible "one of the most controversial movies ever".[73]

In 2003, Bellucci played Alessia in the Italian romantic drama Remember Me, My Love, directed by Gabriele Muccino, which earned her the Nastro d'Argento for Best Supporting Actress.[21][77] The same year, Bellucci co-starred with Bruce Willis in Antoine Fuqua's Tears of the Sun, an action-adventure film set in a civil war in Nigeria. She played the role of doctor Lena Kendricks, working for a humanitarian organisation within a village threatened by rebels. The New Yorker film critic David Denby felt that some of Bellucci's scenes were exaggeratedly stylised but praised the film's visual prowess.[78] Tears of the Sun garnered mixed reviews from critics and was a box-office disappointment.[79] Also in 2003, Bellucci portrayed Persephone successively in The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions.[56] She described her character as "dangerous, sensual with some sense of humor", recalling fond memories with Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, and Laurence Fishburne throughout the filming process in Australia.[80] Bradshaw gave The Matrix Reloaded a positive review,[81] grossing $742.1 million worldwide against a budget of $127 million.[82][83] The character of the Merovingian, played by Lambert Wilson, once again accompanied Bellucci as her husband in The Matrix Revolutions. The film received mixed to average reviews from critics.[84][85] However, it grossed $427 million against a production and marketing budget of $185 million.[86][87]

The Passion of the Christ and career progression (2004–2007)

In Rome, before filming Tears of the Sun, Bellucci was notified that a film about Jesus Christ by Mel Gibson was in the works and asked to meet with him for the role of Mary Magdalene.[25] Her agent advised her against making this film due to its potential failure, as its distribution was undetermined at the time. However, Bellucci ignored his suggestion and turned down another film.[14] Gibson chose her because they "liked each other".[80] She aspired to create an interpretation of the character that would be "strong and deep", even though no one believed the film would succeed.[88] Eventually, Bellucci played an expressive and compassionate Mary Magdalene in Gibson's 2004 film The Passion of the Christ, which depicted the final hours of the life of Jesus Christ.[89] The film feature dialogues in Aramaic and Latin languages that she had to learn expressly.[25][48] Le Monde considered that in the film portraying a "fundamentalist" view of the Gospel, Bellucci stood out the most from the cast list, and The New York Times film critic A. O. Scott expressed a converging opinion, saying she was the only "exception" to the "absence of identifiable movie stars".[89][90] Catholics, meanwhile, objected that Bellucci played Mary Magdalene.[56] Film critic Roger Ebert described The Passion of the Christ as "the most violent film I have ever seen", adding he was "moved by the depth of feeling, by the skill of the actors" and gave a rating of 4 stars out of 4.[91] Overall, critics were divided in their response to the film.[92] The Passion of the Christ was a major commercial success, with a worldwide gross of over $611 million against a budget of $30 million.[93]

Bellucci on the 2006 Cannes Film Festival red carpet
Bellucci at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival

On 2 July 2005, Bellucci was awarded the European Golden Globe for cinema at Rome's 45th Globo d'oro ceremony.[94] She emphasised that she appreciated acting in both American and European films.[88] In Terry Gilliam's fantasy adventure film The Brothers Grimm (2005), Bellucci played the 500-year-old Mirror Queen, starring opposite Matt Damon and Heath Ledger.[95] Gilliam would later say, "[i]mmediately she comes on-screen, it seems to me the whole film lifts up into another realm, a realm of sex and sensuality and danger".[14] Film critic Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle opined that she convincingly portrayed her character.[96] She also voiced Cappy for the French version of the 2005 computer-animated science fiction film Robots.[97] Bellucci had a leading role in the French romantic comedy How Much Do You Love Me?, written and directed by Bertrand Blier, which also starred Gérard Depardieu. She portrayed Daniela, the most beautiful prostitute in Pigalle, Paris, to whom a lottery-winning office worker offered to pay her to live with him. Le Monde wrote that it was "a hymn to the beauty of Monica Bellucci" and pointed out that it was neither Blier's best film nor his most failed.[98] Nesselson observed that she was optimally used in the film as she stimulated the spectator's senses and intellect.[99]

In 2006, Bellucci continued to star in French film productions and made a cameo appearance as a vampire in Kim Chapiron's Sheitan, while Cassel played Joseph.[100] Bellucci starred alongside Daniel Auteuil in Paolo Virzì's historical comedy-drama Napoleon and Me. She portrayed baroness Emilia who had a turbulent relationship with the character named Martino, played by Elio Germano, in the film depicting Napoleon Bonaparte during his exile to Elba from 1814 to 1815. Author Mark Feeney remarked that Bellucci did not take "things too seriously" in the film.[101] Bellucci replaced Sophie Marceau, who had first been chosen for the lead role in the thriller film The Stone Council based on the commercially successful book by Jean-Christophe Grangé. The film differed by character names as the book's heroine was Diane Thiberge, whereas Bellucci was Laura Siprien, a tormented adoptive mother confronted by killers who wanted her child. Le Figaro wrote that she "delivers one of her best performances on the big screen" with a muted sex appeal.[102] Responsible for the hairstyles of notable French actresses, the hairdresser John Nollet, who had done Bellucci's hair in Brotherhood of the Wolf, decided to cut her hair short for The Stone Council.[103]

Bellucci starred opposite Clive Owen and Paul Giamatti in the action thriller film Shoot 'Em Up by Michael Davis, released in the US in September 2007. She played Donna Quintano, a prostitute, who teamed up with Owen's character, Mr Smith, to protect a baby amid a bloody settling of scores.[104] Playing a prostitute again, albeit with a different approach than in How Much Do You Love Me?, Bellucci would say she felt empathy for female sex workers, who she believes retain "faith in humanity". She was fond of this sort of paradox and sought to highlight this virtue in her portrayals of characters of all types but noted that she could explore the opposite spectrum.[105] She dubbed her own voice for the French and Italian releases of the film, saying it was a frequent practice for her to accomplish each film three times.[106] Bellucci next starred alongside Auteuil in Alain Corneau's The Second Wind, a crime remake of the critically acclaimed 1966 film of the same title.[107][108] She portrayed Manouche, a tenacious character enamoured of a gangster who escaped prison, and they ran away together. Bellucci had the idea of dyeing her hair blond to adhere to the style of film noir main characters played by former French actresses.[109] Libération wrote that Bellucci was alone in a "fatally virile" context, but she managed to get through it "to the point of becoming the spectator's compass and the flesh of a film that sometimes lacks it".[110]

Continued international work (2008–2017)

Bellucci looks to the side while being photographed
Bellucci at the Women's World Award in 2009

Bellucci has a "visceral" need to act regularly in films from her native country.[105] Thus, in 2008, Bellucci starred in Marco Tullio Giordana's biopic Wild Blood and co-star Luca Zingaretti. She portrayed Luisa Ferida in a relationship with Osvaldo Valenti, played by Zingaretti, a couple of leading actors during the Italian fascism period. Author Barry Forshaw called Bellucci "charismatic",[111] and author Gino Moliterno praised her performance as "extremely powerful".[112] Next, Bellucci played Alba in the Italian film The Man Who Loves, where she was enamoured of Pierfrancesco Favino's character, Roberto, through a cinematic flashback.[113] On 5 March 2009, she received the World Actress Award at the Women's World Award in Vienna.[114] That same year, Bellucci co-starred with Marceau in the thriller Don't Look Back, a sequel to In My Skin, both directed by Marina de Van. The film depicted Marceau's character seeing changes around her and noticing her body transform into Bellucci's.[115] Film critic J.B. Morain of Les Inrockuptibles noted that Bellucci's physical attitude and "attention to others have never been so well filmed". Variety film critic Derek Elley said she "looks elegant and mystified", though both pointed out the clumsily written dialogue.[116][117] Bellucci reunited with Reeves in Rebecca Miller's romantic comedy-drama The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009), featuring Robin Wright and Winona Ryder.[118] Bellucci portrayed Gigi Lee, the former wife of a successful publisher, Herb, played by Alan Arkin.[119] She next appeared in a cameo role in Tornatore's autobiographical film Baarìa, a family saga traversing several generations and shot in Bagheria, Sicily.[120]

In 2010, Belluci portrayed Laura Leviani in Larysa Kondracki's biopic drama thriller The Whistleblower, primarily filmed in Romania and depicting a vast human trafficking network discovered in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1999.[121] Hélène Delye of Le Monde described Bellucci's character as a "grizzled, stubborn, insensitive civil servant".[122] The Whistleblower received a polarised reception from critics.[123][124] Bellucci shot three films in seven months including, Giovanni Veronesi's The Ages of Love, Philippe Garrel's A Burning Hot Summer, and Bahman Ghobadi's Rhino Season.[125] In the third segment of The Ages of Love, released in 2011, Bellucci starred opposite Robert De Niro, a divorced American art history professor living in Rome who fell in love with her character, Viola.[126] De Niro was delighted to collaborate with Bellucci, saying she had "worked her magic" on him and admitting that he had accepted the role because he wanted to play alongside her. It was filmed two months after the birth of Bellucci's second child. A scene based on improvisation showed De Niro doing a striptease in front of Bellucci, which echoed in reverse a sequence of the 1963 film Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, where Sophia Loren performed it for Marcello Mastroianni.[125] For her role in Rhino Season (2012), Bellucci learned to speak Persian (Farsi), a Western Iranian language.[48]

Bellucci smiling and wearing a black top
Bellucci at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival

In 2014, Alice Rohrwacher's family drama film The Wonders featured Bellucci as Milly Catena, host of the Countryside Wonders televised contest.[127] Her character was depicted in a pagan priestess style, wearing elaborate clothes with ancient figures surrounding her.[128] Critically acclaimed, The Wonders won the Grand Prix Award at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.[127] In 2015, Bellucci had the leading role of Sophie Bernard in the Canadian drama film Ville-Marie directed by Guy Édoin. The film traces the journey of Bernard, a European actress visiting Montreal for a film shoot and trying to reconcile with her son.[129] Bellucci said Édoin had offered her "one of the most beautiful roles" of her career, describing a stimulating fear of embodying Bernard's character that affected her emotionally.[130] The film garnered generally positive reviews, and Bellucci's performance was unanimously praised.[129][131] For her portrayal of Bernard, she received the Best Actress Award from the Dublin Film Critics' Circle at the Dublin International Film Festival.[132] At 50, she became the oldest Bond girl ever in the James Bond film franchise, playing Lucia Sciarra in Spectre, directed by Sam Mendes, and released in 2015. She was initially sceptical about Mendes' project, but he argued that a mature woman in a James Bond film would be innovative.[133] She felt gratified to have been the first to portray what she called a "James Bond lady".[48] Spectre received mixed to positive reviews from critics.[134][135] The film grossed $880 million worldwide against a $240 million budget.[136] Guy Lodge of Variety called Bellucci "One of the most restlessly globe-trotting stars in world cinema", who does not want national borders or age brackets to dictate her filmography.[137]

In 2016, Bellucci had a guest role in the third season of the American comedy-drama streaming television series Mozart in the Jungle, an adaptation of the memoir Blair Tindall's Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music, portraying Alessandra, an opera singer and latest collaborator of New York symphony orchestra conductor, Rodrigo, played by Gael García Bernal.[138] Variety's Nick Vivarelli labelled her the "Italian actress with international star power".[139] In the same year, Bellucci portrayed Nevesta in the film On the Milky Road, a romance set during the Balkan war whose lead role was played by the film's director, Emir Kusturica. Reflecting on the film and her other cinematic experiences, Bellucci said, "I decided to be an actress, not a politician, I recount political choices through my artistic choices."[140] Kusturica asked her to learn all her dialogue in the Serbian language to interpret her character.[141] She had to adapt to a "complicated" environment in a "land of beauty and violence", with Kusturica suffering "great [mental] pain" during filming, which spanned four summers.[48] The Hollywood Reporter's Neil Young felt the Golden Lion-nominated film's approach lacked nuance, while Bellucci performed "admirably well" and kept her "dignity intact" in a physically demanding role.[142] Her performance in the film earned her the European Silver Ribbon Award, held on 1 July 2017 at the Ancient theatre of Taormina in Sicily.[143] In 2017, Bellucci was cast in the third season of David Lynch and Mark Frost's television series Twin Peaks.[144] The same year, Bellucci received the honorary Donostia Award at the San Sebastián International Film Festival.[145]

Recent career (2018–present)

In 2018, Bellucci had one of the leading roles in the Australian comedy science-fiction horror film Nekrotronic, playing a necromancer and demonic soul-eater. A journalist for The Hollywood Reporter appreciated that she portrayed her "diva" character through an "operatic camp-vamp" performance but was less enthusiastic about the plot, believing her acting style would be best suited to films by Guillermo del Toro and Tim Burton.[146] Bellucci had a cameo role in Claude Lelouch's The Best Years of a Life (2019), playing Elena, the daughter of Jean-Louis Duroc, portrayed by Jean-Louis Trintignant.[147] The film received a positive critical response.[148] As Bellucci was announced as the recipient of an honorary Magritte Award for the upcoming 2020 Magritte Awards, the André Delvaux Academy remarked that Bellucci's unorthodox filmography made her "unclassifiable" and that she developed her acting career by alternating films d'auteur (auteur films) with blockbusters.[149] Following his documentary film Maria by Callas (2017), the photographer, writer, and director Tom Volf proposed to Bellucci his project based on his book, Maria Callas' Letters and Memoirs, containing the writings of soprano Maria Callas.[150] As a one-woman show directed by Wolf, Maria Callas' Letters and Memoirs was a narrative form of letters recited by Bellucci alone on stage and wearing two dresses that had belonged to Callas, thus making her theatrical debut at the Marigny Theater (Marigny Studio area) in Paris held from 27 November to 6 December 2019.[151] She would perform it intermittently over the years.[150]

Maria Callas' Letters and Memoirs tour visited Umbria's Festival dei Due Mondi, Rome's Parco della Musica, Milan's Teatro Manzoni, Venice's Teatro Goldoni, and Athens's Odeon of Herodes Atticus with an orchestra that attracted 4,000 people each night.[45] In 2021, Bellucci received a David Special Award for her career achievements at the 66th David di Donatello ceremony.[152] She continued interpreting Maria Callas' Letters and Memoirs and brought it to Her Majesty's Theatre in London, Chatelet Theater in Paris, and Istanbul, Los Angeles and Monaco.[45][153] In January 2023, at 58, she performed the play at the Beacon Theater in New York.[150] Recalling Irréversible, Bellucci told The New York Times in 2023 that now being a mother, her "days of acting in transgressive movies are behind her".[71] In 2023, Bellucci entered talks to star in Beetlejuice 2. She will play Beetlejuice's wife.[154]

Other activities

Bellucci was mistress of ceremonies of the 56th Cannes Film Festival, presiding over the opening and closing ceremonies held on the Croisette from 14 to 25 May 2003.[59][155] From 17 to 28 May 2006, she was a jury member of the 59th Cannes Film Festival.[156] Bellucci returned to her role of mistress of ceremonies at the 70th Cannes Film Festival, in charge of opening and closing one of the major international film events, which took place from 17 to 28 May 2017.[157][158] 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).[152][159] From 26 to 30 September 2018, she chaired the judging panel of the 29th Dinard British Film Festival.[160] Bellucci was to be chairwoman of the 15th Crystal Globe Awards, scheduled for 14 March 2020 at the Wagram auditorium in Paris, but the ceremony was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.[161][162]

In 2008, Bellucci supported a fundraising campaign in favour of a centre for children with cancer located in Prima Porta. It was initiated by the Associazione Genitori Oncologia Pediatrica (Association of Parents in Pediatric Oncology), also known as AGOP, created by parents of children with cancer and leukemia at the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome.[163] In 2010, Bellucci became patron of Paroles de Femmes (Words of Women), an apolitical and secular French association promoting equality between men and women in society. In March 2010, she organised the Nuit des Femmes (Women's Night), bringing together female politicians, researchers, doctors, lawyers, writers, painters, and business leaders to assess the evolution of women's rights in France. The funds raised went to construct centres for accommodation, reintegration and support for single mothers in precarious situations.[164] In 2010, La Martinière Groupe published a book prefaced by Tornatore and retracing Bellucci's modelling and acting career through photos taken by photographers such as Peter Lindbergh and Helmut Newton. All proceeds from the book's sales were donated to Rome's AGOP and Paroles de Femmes.[165][166] She is also a patron of the SOS Autism France association.[167]

Bellucci has been involved in French state dinners known for being official dinners chaired by the President of the French Republic and organised as part of foreign heads of state visits.[168] On 21 November 2012, she attended the state dinner hosted by French president François Hollande at the Elysée Palace in Paris on the occasion of the visit of Italian President Giorgio Napolitano and his ministers.[169] On 5 July 2021, she was invited to a state dinner hosted by French president Emmanuel Macron at the Elysée Palace in honour of Italian President Sergio Mattarella and his daughter Laura. Among the participants were French ministers, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton's co-founder, chairman and CEO Bernard Arnault, Dior's creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri, Kering's chairman and CEO François-Henri Pinault, and French actress Carole Bouquet.[170][171]

Public image

In 2001, Bellucci appeared on the cover of Esquire's Desire issue.[172] In his 2001 review of Malèna, CNN International's Paul Tatara called Bellucci a "world-class bombshell".[173] AskMen named her the number one ranking of the most desirable woman of 2002.[172][174] In 2003, Chris Campion of The Daily Telegraph wrote that "'La Bellucci' is Italy's national sweetheart and an icon of European cinema".[25] Bellucci was the first foreign public figure invited by the City of Paris and the Champs-Élysées Committee (merchants and businesses on the avenue) to press the button triggering the Christmas illuminations of the Champs-Élysées avenue consisting of 45 km (28 mi) of electric garlands descending from the Place de l'Étoile towards Place de la Concorde, which took place on 23 November 2004 in the presence of the first deputy mayor Anne Hidalgo.[175] In 2004 and 2007, Bellucci was voted "the most beautiful woman in the world" based on a survey of 1000 people in France commissioned by TF1.[176] Paris' Grévin Museum unveiled a wax statue of her in April 2005.[177]

Also dubbed "Bella Bellucci", she was called "arguably the world's most beautiful actress" by The Times staff writers. They suggested that she has, by contrast, the propensity to specialise in acting "[u]gly scenes", which they exemplified by the rape scene of the 2002 film Irreversible.[56] Mark Salisbury of The Guardian wrote in 2005 that she represents an "international object of desire" and "[i]n person, as on screen, Bellucci radiates a rare, otherworldly beauty."[14] In the words of Blier, she is "completely relaxed with her image and with her own sense of modesty as well."[14] Blier compared her to "Ava Gardner, the stars of yesteryear".[178] On 9 May 2008, the news magazine L'Obs reported on a survey of 1,003 people conducted by the Superior Audiovisual Council as part of Europe Day, where Bellucci was the second of the European personalities (excluding France) favourite of the French.[179] In 2011, Bellucci was ranked fourth in Los Angeles Times Magazine's list of the 50 most beautiful women in film.[180] She was voted No. 1 of the "100 sexiest stars of 2011" in a NRJ 12 nationwide survey in France, including American and French actresses, models, singers, sportswomen, and TV hosts.[181]

Bellucci was featured in Empire's "Sexiest Women" list.[172] On 10 April 2016, the Karin Models agency, representing Bellucci, opened an official Instagram account for her.[182] She appeared on Men's Health's list of the "100 Hottest Sex Symbols of All Time", encompassing both women and men,[183] and the magazine's Australian edition also named her one of the "100 Hottest Women Of All Time", ranking her at No. 21.[184] Known for wearing high-value jewellery, with an unfailing commitment to Cartier, but also to Boucheron and Chopard, Naomi Pike of British Vogue referred to her as "A Modern Day Liz Taylor". Dressed in diamonds, "few contemporary Hollywood stars can rival Italian actor Monica Bellucci", said Pike.[185] In 2021, Vogue France ranked her fourth of the "most beautiful Italian actresses of all time".[186] She is considered an Italian sex symbol by the media.[14][26][187] Rolling Stone Italy included Bellucci in its "10 greatest sex symbols of the 1990s" list, in no particular order.[26] The press refers to her as a style icon.[171][188] In January 2023, Elisabeth Vincentelli of The New York Times wrote that she has a "reputation as a symbol of European glamour and sophistication" that is "firmly established".[150]

Personal life

At the age of 20, Bellucci married Italian photographer Claudio Carlos Basso; they divorced after six months.[189][190]

From 1989 to 1995, Bellucci had a relationship with Italian actor Nicola Farron.[191][192]

Bellucci met French actor Vincent Cassel on the set of their film The Apartment (1996).[193] They married on 2 August 1999 in Monaco.[194] Bellucci and Cassel have two daughters, Deva Cassel (born 12 September 2004) and Léonie (born 21 May 2010). Their daughters were born in Rome.[195][196] Bellucci and Cassel acted together in nine films from 1996 to 2006.[100] The family lived in Italy, France, Brazil, and England.[194] The couple announced their separation on 26 August 2013[193] and later divorced.[197] At the end of 2014, Bellucci said she was still enamoured of Cassel; both have remained close ever since.[198]

After her divorce, Bellucci was in a relationship with French sculptor and former model Nicolas Lefebvre.[199] They had been dating since 2017.[200] They made it official in early March 2019 during a Chanel show at the Grand Palais in Paris. Lefebvre was then 37 years old.[199] She told Italian magazine F about the end of their relationship, announced by the media in early July 2019.[201]

In October 2022, Bellucci and American filmmaker Tim Burton met at the Lumière Film Festival in Lyon, and their relationship was announced in February 2023.[202]

Bellucci is fluent in the Italian, French, and English languages[172] and has proficiency in Portuguese and Spanish.[203] She also performed in several other languages.[172][203] After her divorce from Cassel, Bellucci lived with her daughters in England, France and Italy. In 2015, she decided to reside in France. Bellucci said, however, that "I am entirely Italian. Everything about me is Italian" and acknowledged that "Paris is part of my history".[204] She owns houses in Rome and Lisbon[4] in the neighbourhood of Saint George's Castle.[203] 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.[205] She said she votes in Italy, not France.[75]

Bellucci has emphasised that she has moved away from her religious roots: "I come from a Catholic religion, but I'm not Catholic".[206] She has called herself an agnostic,[7] saying, "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."[172] Bellucci has said that her personality is due in large part to her upbringing: "Certainly a lot of positivity also depends on the climate in which my parents raised me."[207]

In 2009, Bellucci signed a petition alongside filmmakers from Europe and the US and 70 other prominent names from the film industry in support of film director Roman Polanski, who had been arrested in Zurich when he arrived at the city's film festival, in connection with his 1977 sexual abuse charges.[208]

In 2020, GEDI Gruppo Editoriale's alfemminile website ranked Bellucci as the third richest actress in Italy, with wealth valued at $45 million.[209][210]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes Ref.
1991 La Riffa Francesca [211]
1992 Bram Stoker's Dracula One of Dracula's brides [211]
Ostinato Destino Marina and Angela [211]
1994 Briganti – Amore e libertà Costanza [212]
I mitici – Colpo gobbo a Milano Deborah [211]
1995 Palla di neve Theo's mother [211]
1996 Il cielo è sempre più blu [213]
The Apartment Lisa [214]
Come mi vuoi Nellina [215]
1997 Dobermann Nat the Gypsy [216]
Stressati [217]
Mauvais genre (Wrong Kind) Camille [218]
1998 Le Plaisir (et ses petits tracas) (Pleasure (and its little hassles)) Girl [219]
Compromis Monique Short film [220]
L'ultimo capodanno Giulia Giovannini [221]
A los que aman (To Those Who Love) Valeria [222]
1999 Comme un poisson hors de l'eau (Like a Fish Out of Water) Myrtille [219]
Méditerranées (Mediterraneas) Marguerite [223]
2000 Under Suspicion Chantal Hearst [224]
Franck Spadone Laura [219]
Malèna Malèna Scordia [219]
2001 Brotherhood of the Wolf Sylvia [219]
2002 Astérix & Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre Cleopatra [219]
Irréversible Alex [225]
2003 Remember Me, My Love Alessia [226]
Tears of the Sun Dr. Lena Fiore Kendricks [225]
The Matrix Reloaded Persephone [225]
The Matrix Revolutions Persephone [225]
2004 The Passion of the Christ Mary Magdalene [227]
Secret Agents Barbara and Lisa [228]
She Hate Me Simona Bonasera [229]
2005 The Brothers Grimm The Mirror Queen [230]
How Much Do You Love Me? Daniela [231]
2006 Sheitan Vampire girl [232]
Napoleon and Me Baroness Emilia Speziali [233]
The Stone Council Laura Siprien [234]
2007 Manual of Love 2 Lucia [235]
Shoot 'Em Up Donna Quintano [236]
The Second Wind Manouche [237]
2008 Wild Blood Luisa Ferida [112]
The Man Who Loves Alba [238]
2009 Don't Look Back Jeanne [239]
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee Gigi Lee [240]
Baarìa Bricklayer's girlfriend [241]
Omaggio a Roma (Homage to Rome) Tosca Documentary [242]
2010 The Whistleblower Laura Leviani [243]
The Sorcerer's Apprentice Veronica Gorloisen [244]
Rose, c'est Paris (Rose, it's Paris) L'esprit de Gala (Gala's spirit) [245]
2011 The Ages of Love Viola [246]
A Burning Hot Summer Angele [247]
2012 Rhino Season Mina [248]
2013 Des gens qui s'embrassent (People Who Kiss Each Other) Giovanna [249]
2014 The Wonders Milly Catena [250]
Na Quebrada [251]
2015 Ville-Marie Sophie [252]
Spectre Lucia Sciarra [253]
2016 On the Milky Road Nevesta [254]
2018 Nekrotronic Finnegan [255]
2019 The Best Years of a Life Elena [256]
Spider in the Web Angela [257]
2020 The Man Who Sold His Skin Soraya Waldy [258]
2021 Les Fantasmes (Fantasies) Sabrina [259]
La Befana vien di notte II – Le origini (The Befana Comes at Night 2 – the Origins) Dolores [260]
The Girl in the Fountain Anita Ekberg and herself Hybrid documentary film [261]
2022 Memory Davana Sealman [262]
Dry Valentina [263]
Diabolik – Ginko all'attacco! (Diabolik – Ginko on the Attack!) Altea di Vallenberg [264]
2023 Mafia Mamma Bianca [265]
2024 Beetlejuice 2 † Beetlejuice's wife Filming [154]
Key
† Denotes films that have not yet been released

Television

Year Title Role Notes Ref.
1990 Vita coi figli Television film [266]
1995 Joseph Pharaoh's wife Miniseries; 2 x 90 mins [267]
1996 Sorellina e il principe del sogno Miniseries [268]
2007 Heartango Short film [269]
2011 R.I.S. Roma – Delitti imperfetti Herself 1 episode [270]
Platane Herself Season 1, episode 4: "La fois où Monica Bellucci a failli signer" ("The time Monica Bellucci almost signed") [271]
2016 Mozart in the Jungle Alessandra Guest role; 5 episodes [272]
2017 Twin Peaks: The Return Herself (Monica Bellucci's dream) Episode: "Part 14" [273]
2018 Il Miracolo The Virgin Mary (dream sequence) 1 episode [274]
Dix pour cent (Ten percent) Herself Season 3, episodes 2 and 6 [275]
2021 L'Amour flou (Blurred Love) Valéria 9 episodes; aired on Canal+ [276]

Animation

Year Title Voice role Notes Ref.
2023 Ark: The Animated Series † Post-production
Key
† Denotes series that have not yet been released

Feature films

Year Title Voice role Notes Ref.
2003 Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas Marina French dub [277]
2005 Robots Cappy French dub [97]

Video games

Year Title Voice role Notes Ref.
2003 Enter the Matrix Persephone [278][279]
2004 Prince of Persia: Warrior Within Kaileena [280]
2005 The Matrix Online Persephone [281]

Theater

Year Title Role Location Notes Ref.
2019–2023 Maria Callas' Letters and Memoirs Maria Callas Europe; US [45]

Accolades

Awards and nominations

Awards and nominations received by Monica Bellucci
Award Year Work Category Result Ref.
César Awards 1997 The Apartment Most Promising Actress Nominated [232][282]
David di Donatello 2003 Remember Me, My Love Best Supporting Actress Nominated [8][283]
DIFF Awards – Dublin Film Critics' Circle selection 2016 Ville-Marie Best Actress Won [132][284]
European Film Awards 2001 Malèna Jameson People's Choice Award for Best Actress Nominated [285]
Globo d'oro 1998 L'ultimo capodanno Best Actress Won [286][54]
Maria Callas Monaco Gala Awards[b] 2022 Maria Callas' Letters and Memoirs Best Artist (theater play) Won [288]
MTV Movie & TV Awards 2004 The Matrix Reloaded Best Kiss (with Keanu Reeves) Nominated [289]
Nastro d'Argento 2003 Remember Me, My Love Best Supporting Actress Won [77]
2005 The Passion of the Christ Nominated [290][291]
2007 Napoleon and Me Nominated [291][292]
2017 On the Milky Road European Silver Ribbon Award Won [293]
Saturn Awards 2002 Brotherhood of the Wolf Best Supporting Actress Nominated [294][295]
2003 The Matrix Reloaded & The Matrix Revolutions Cinescape Face of the Future Award – Female Nominated [296][297]
Teen Choice Awards 2003 Tears of the Sun & The Matrix Reloaded Choice Breakout Movie Actress Nominated [298][299]

Special awards

List of special awards received by Monica Bellucci
Ceremony Year Award Ref.
Chinese Business Club as part of International Women's Day 2020 Woman of the Year Award [300]
Cityfest – Cinema Foundation for Rome 2017 Virna Lisi Prize [301]
David di Donatello 2021 David Special (Career David di Donatello Award) [302]
Filming in Italy Festival – Los Angeles 2018 Career Achievement Award [303]
IIC Los Angeles Creativity Award for Italian Excellence in the World
Flaiano Prizes 2021 International Flaiano Lifetime Achievement Award [304]
Globo d'oro 2005 European Golden Globe [94]
Ischia Global Film and Music Festival 2012 Ischia Award for Actor of the Year [305]
Küstendorf Film and Music Festival 2013 Films of the Future Award [306]
Los Cabos International Film Festival 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award [307]
Lumières Award 2018 Honorary Lumières Award [308]
Magritte Awards 2020 Honorary Magritte Award [309]
Monte-Carlo Film Festival 2017 Career Achievement Award [310]
San Sebastián International Film Festival 2017 Honorary Donostia Award for Career Achievement [145]
Taormina Film Fest 2011 Taormina Arte Award [311]
Torino Film Festival 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award [312]
Stella della Mole Award for Artistic Innovation [313]
Trieste Film Festival 2017 Eastern Star Award [314]
Women's World Award 2009 World Actress Award [114]

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 the Minister of the Interior and future President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, at the Élysée Palace.[315]

Knight of the Legion of Honour
In 2016, she received the Legion of Honour from the President of France François Hollande at the Élysée Palace.[316]

Other honours

Name of country, year given, and name of honour
Country Year Honour Ref.
Belgium 2019 Inducted into the Ostend's Walk of Fame [317]
Italy 2010 Vittorio De Sica medal for Italian cinema from President of Italy Giorgio Napolitano [318]
2020 Key to the City of Florence from mayor Dario Nardella [319]

Notes

  1. ^ The average exchange rate of the US dollar to the euro was 0.99 in late January 2000 (US$0.99 bought €1).[63]
  2. ^ Under the High Patronage of HSH Albert II, Prince of Monaco.[287]

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