Born on September 30, 1968, Bellucci grew up in the small Italian village of Citta di Castello, where her father owned a trucking company. At 18, she enrolled at the University of Perugia with plans to study law.
To pay her tuition, Bellucci started modeling. Two years later, she dropped out of school to relocate to Milan, where she signed with Elite Model Management. Besides strutting the cat walk in fashion shows, Bellucci appeared in international advertising campaigns for designers such as Dolce & Gabbana.
With her modeling career in full swing, she began to take acting classes and made her screen debut in the television film Vita Coi Figli (Life With the Sons) in 1990.
Critics describe her as the perfect mix of naturally cute and sexy. Pouty lips, soft facial features, and big piercing eyes. She’s on the taller side but not supermodel tall, which makes her stand out but not too much.
Her body is voluptuous but her style is elegant. She could have easily played with sex appeal more but she is always seen as classy and elegant. Her image is also more natural and she never tried to appear perfect.
Her body is soft and sensual, like Sophia Loren’s pasta and wine body, and not super skinny and like the carefully crafted and edited Instagram body.
Bellucci made her American screen debut in Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992), when she played one of Dracula’s (Gary Oldman) brides. The movie also starred Keanu Reaves and Winona Ryder.
After that, she went back to Italy to star in the heist thriller I Mitici (The Heroes) in 1994 and the kids’ movie Palla di Neve (Snowball) in 1995.
As time went on, Bellucci became more and more angry that Italy’s film industry wasn’t doing a good job of promoting its productions abroad. She starred with Ben Kingsley and Dominique Sanda in the American TV drama Joseph (1995) before looking for jobs in French movies.
Bellucci’s first French-language movie was the award-winning romance L’Appartement (The Apartment) in 1996. She was nominated for a César award for her part and started dating her co-star, French actor Vincent Cassel.
The couple, who got married a few years later, worked together again right away, playing comically confused lovers in the gender-bending romance Come Mi Vuoi (As You Want Me) (1996) and homicidal bank robbers in Jan Kounen’s acclaimed thriller Dobermann (1997).
She was the oldest Bond girl ever at 50, playing Lucia Sciarra in Spectre (2015). Three years later, she was in the Australian movie Nekrotronic.
In 1990, Bellucci married Italian photographer Claudio Carlos Basso. They divorced after 18 months. She met French actor Vincent Cassel while they were filming The Apartment in 1996.
They got married in 1999 and have two daughters: Deva, who was born in 2004, and Léonie, who was born in 2010. On August 26, 2013, the couple said they were breaking up, and they later got a divorce.
Bellucci said in the documentary The Big Question, which is about the movie The Passion of the Christ, “I am an agnostic, even though I respect and am interested in all religions.” I believe in a secret energy that fills the oceans during tides and connects all living things.
In 2009, Bellucci signed a petition in support of Roman Polanski, a film director who was arrested in connection with his 1977 charge of drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl. The petition called for his release from custody. Bellucci speaks Italian, French, and English well.
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