Roohullah Rohein Hasani

Monica Anna Maria Bellucci is an Italian actress. Born in 1964 in Città di Castello, near Perugia in central Italy, she is the only child of Brunella Briganti and Pasquale Bellucci. She started modeling at the age of 13, quickly becoming a renowned model in Milan and then Paris. In the early 1990s, she began acting. After some minor roles, she gained wider recognition appearing as one of Dracula's brides in Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula. She was nominated for a César Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1996 film L'Appartement. While her beauty has often been discussed more than her acting, her performances in films like Malena and Irreversible have been praised. She played Cleopatra in Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra and earned acclaim for her role as Persephone in the second and third Matrix films. She served as a jury member at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. In 2010, she played Veronica in the Hollywood film The Sorcerer's Apprentice. She appeared as Lucia Sciarra in the 2015 James Bond film Spectre. In 2016, she starred alongside Emir Kusturica in his film On the Milky Road. She was married to Claudio Carlos Basso from 1990 to 1994 and to French actor Vincent Cassel from 1999 to 2013, with whom she has two daughters, Deva (b. 2004) and Léonie (b. 2010). Possessing a typically Mediterranean physique, Bellucci has stated in numerous interviews that she didn't want to move to America to work in Hollywood because of the industry's preference for very thin actresses, saying, “I could never live there; they have a real obsession with youth and beauty. I love to eat, so who cares? I'm a natural woman.” She has cited Sophia Loren and Claudia Cardinale as sources of inspiration for her acting. Besides her successful acting career, Monica Bellucci has been repeatedly chosen as one of the most beautiful and sexiest women by European and American magazines and websites.