Monica Anna Maria Bellucci, an Italian actress and fashion model was born on 30 September 1964 in Città di Castello, Umbria, Italy. Bellucci started modelling at 16, as a way to finance her tuition at the University of Perugia. She speaks Italian, French, and English fluently, Spanish semi-fluently, and has acted in each of these languages, as well as in Aramaic. She is married to actor Vincent Cassel, with whom she has a daughter, named Deva (born September 12, 2004). In 2007 she was chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#35).

Bellucci’s started her film career in the early 1990s. In 1992 she made her first appearance as one of Dracula’s brides in Bram Stoker’s Dracula. She became known and popular as for her role in the acclaimed Italian film Malèna, as well as through the portrayal of a rape victim in the highly controversial movie Irréversible. She is best known for her role as Persephone in The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions and her portrayal of Mary Magdelene in The Passion of the Christ.

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