Monica Bellucci - Bella donna

Italian, incredible, irresistable, impossibly attractive
Monica Bellucci
I'm just an actress, I'm not a movie star. Nobody is a star – we're all human. The most famous people I've met are also the most scared.

Arguably the very woman the term MILF was coined for, this smouldering Italian "more mature" lady can still compete with women half her age – no wonder that she's been cast as the honey who seduces Dracula and Jesus and, uhm as a lactating prostitute in Shoot 'Em Up.

It's all a long way from her teenage years, when she dreamed of becoming a lawyer; the legal profession was put on indefinite hold when she was spotted by the world famous Elite Model management in 1988. Striding between Italian, English-language and French films, the buxom brunette is now considered that rarest of all things: a quality actress who doesn't mind shedding kit for the cameras.

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Ranking history in the 100 Sexiest Women

2008 #47 | 2005 #54 | 2004 #34 | 2003 #42

Vital Statistics

  • Bit parter in Bram Stoker's Dracula way back in 1992 – she played the fangster's bride.

  • Shot to fame as Persephone in the Matrix sequels: Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions.

  • Mary Magdalene in controversial Mel Gibson flick The Passion Of The Christ.

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