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Monica Bellucci began her career as a model while studying law at the University of Perugia. In 1990, Dino Risi cast her for the Italian television series "Vita Coi Figli" and her acting career was born. She made her feature film debut in Francesco Laudadio’s "La Riffa" (1991).

Francis Coppola gave Bellucci a small role in "Bram Stoker’s Dracula" (1992) with Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins and Keanu Reeves, and she went on to star in numerous European features. In 2000, she appeared with Gene Hackman and Morgan Freeman in "Under Suspicion". The following year, she co-starred in the French sensation "Le Pacte des Loupes" (2001).

Bellucci made a major impression when she starred as a raped woman in Gaspar Noé’s harrowing "Irréversible" (2002) and the actress also hit the radar of mainstream audiences when she appeared opposite Bruce Willis in Antoine Fuqua’s "Tears of the Sun" (2003). Later that same year, Bellucci entranced blockbuster-craving crowds when she was cast in the highly-anticipated back-to-back sequels "The Matrix Reloaded" and "The Matrix Revolution" playing the beautiful and enigmatic Persephone. In 2004 Belucci had a small role, comported with much modesty, as Mary Magdalene in Mel Gibson's controversial and brutal depiction of the Crucifixtion, "The Passion of the Christ," and she also appeared in director Spike Lee's middling sex comedy "She Hate Me" (2004) as the lesbian daughter of a Mafioso who pays to be impregnated by the film's lead character (Anthony Mackie). The following year she appeared as the icy, evil Mirror Queen in director Terry Gilliam's visually arresting but disappointing fairy tale tweaking "The Brothers Grimm" (2005).

• Born:
  September 30, 1968 in Citta di Castello, Perugia, Italy
• Job Titles:
  Actor, Model

Family

• Daughter: Deva Cassel. born September 12, 2004 in Rome; father, Vincent Cassel

Milestones

• 1990 Began acting in films with Vita con Figli and Briganti
• 1992 US debut in Bram Stoker s Dracula , helmed by Francis Ford Coppola
• 1996 Made two films with future husband Vincent Cassel, Come mi Vuoi/Embrasse moi Pasqualino! and L Appartement
• 2000 Played Gene Hackman s wife in Under Suspicion
• 2000 Starred in title role as Malena
• 2001 Had pivotal role in Le Pacte des loups/The Brotherhood of the Wolf
• 2003 Along with Bruce Willis, co-starred in the thriller Tears of the Sun
• 2003 Cast in the drama feature Irreversible
• 2003 Co-starred in the Matrix sequels, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions
• 2003 Starred in the Italian film Remember Me, My Love (2004 US Release)
• 2004 Appeared in the Spike Lee Comedy She Hate Me
• 2004 Portrayed Mary Magdalene in The Passion of the Christ, a film about the last 12 hours in the life of Jesus
• 2005 Cast as Queen Mirror in Terry Gilliam s The Brothers Grimm
• 2007 Played a prostitute opposite Clive Owen in Shoot Em Up, an action film written and directed by Michael Davis

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