Monica Bellucci Biography, Filmography, Pictures

30 June

Monica Bellucci Biography, Filmography, Pictures

Author: Sami / Category: B

Monica Anna Maria Bellucci (born on September 30 1964) is an Italian actress and fashion model.

She was born in Città di Castello, Umbria, Italy and begun modeling at the age of 16, while she was still attending the Liceo classico. Initially she was seeking a career as a lawyer and modeled to pay for her education at the University of Perugia, but eventually her lifestyle drawn her away from law studies. She is fluent in Italian, French and Italian and semi-fluent in Spanish. Throughout her career, Bellucci had several speaking roles in all these languages, plus in Aramaic for her role as Mary Magdalena in The Passion of the Christ.

In 1990, she was married to fashion photographer Claudio Carlos Basso. Presently, she is married to actor Vincent Cassel, with whom she has two daughters. In 2004, while pregnant she posed nude for the Italian issue of Vanity Fair Magazine and posed pregnant and semi-nude once more for the April 2010 issue of the same magazine.