Monica Bellucci, a svelte Italian actress and former model is well known for her work ion cinema comprising of different languages. Be it Italian, French or the very own, Hollywood, Bellucci has tried her hands in every film medium. Her film career began in 1990s with her first U.S. feature, Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula (1992) where she played a topless vampire. Bellucci made her French-language debut in 1996's award-winning romance L'Appartement (The Apartment). Her crowning moment came when she earned worldwide acclaim for her portrayal as the title character in the 2000 U.S. movie, Malena. Most recently, she had been in the news for playing the controversial character of Mary Magdalene in the equally controversial Mel Gibson starrer, The Passion Of The Christ (2004).
She was born as Monica Anna Maria Bellucci on September 30, 1964 in Città di Castello, Umbria, Italy, to Luigi Bellucci, who owned a trucking company, and Maria Gustinelli, a painter.Bellucci did her schooling from Liceo Classico. While she was still in school, at the age of 16, she started modeling. Initially, Monica’s career goal was to become a lawyer and she even enrolled herself for that in University of Perugia. Her entry into modeling field was with the motive of getting some extra income to pay off her tuition fees at college. But the lure of glamour and famed lifestyle soon made her drop out from college and join the fashion world band wagon in full force.
