Monica Bellucci | |
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![]() Bellucci at the 2024 Venice Film Festival | |
Born | Monica Anna Maria Bellucci 30 September 1964 Città di Castello, Umbria, Italy |
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Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[1] |
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Partner | Tim Burton (2022–present) |
Children | 2 (including Deva Cassel) |
Awards | Full list |
Monica Bellucci (born 30 September 1964) is an italian fashion model and actress. She was born in Città di Castello, Umbria. Bellucci started modelling at 16. She is the daughter of Maria Gustinelli, a painter, and Luigi Bellucci, who owned a trucking company. She used to be a fashion model. She speaks Italian, French, and English fluently and has acted in each of these languages, as well as Aramaic. She is currently considered as an Italian sex symbol.
Bellucci was married to Vincent Cassel and has a daughter named Deva (born 12 September 2004). She has been in a relationship with American director Tim Burton since 2022.[2]
In 2004, while pregnant with her daughter, Bellucci posed nude for the Italian "Vanity Fair" Magazine in protest against Italian laws that allow only married couples to use in-vitro fertilization and that prevent the use of donor sperm.