Monica Bellucci (born September 30, 1964) is an Italian actress and former
fashion model. She is considered an Italian sex symbol.
Bellucci's film career began in the early 1990s. In 1992 she made her first
appearance in a major English-language film as one of Dracula's brides in Bram
Stoker's Dracula. She became known and popular with English-speaking audiences
following her lead role in the acclaimed Italian film Malèna, as well as through
the portrayal of a rape victim in the highly controversial Irréversible, though is
perhaps best known for her role as Persephone in The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix
Revolutions followed by her portrayal of Mary Magdelene in The Passion of the
Christ.
After her work in The Passion of the Christ, Bellucci was assumed by many fans to
be Roman Catholic. However in a documentary about the film, The Big Question, she
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."[4]
In 2005, Belucci starred in The Brothers Grimm as a beautiful evil queen.
Her latest films are The Stone Council, directed by the Frenchman Guillaume Nicloux
(2006) and Manuale d'amore 2 (2007) where she portrays a physiotherapist in the
first segment of the film who is object of the desire of her patient. She was
supposed to be seen portraying Indian politician Sonia Gandhi in the biopic Sonia
planned for release in 2007 but that has now been shelved. As of February 2007 she
has finished Shoot 'Em Up, where she plays a prostitute opposite Clive Owen, and is
currently filming Le Deuxième souffle, an Alain Corneau thriller with Daniel
Auteuil, Michel Blanc and former football player Eric Cantona.
Bellucci also voiced as Kaileena in the video game Prince of Persia: Warrior
Within.
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