Monica Bellucci

Monica Anna Maria Bellucci (Italian: [ˈmɔːnika belˈluttʃi]; born 30 September 1964) is an Italian actress and model. She began her career as a fashion model, working for Dolce & Gabbana and Dior, before transitioning to Italian films and later to American and French cinema.

Bellucci portrayed a Bride of Dracula in Francis Ford Coppola's gothic horror romance film *Bram Stoker's Dracula* (1992) and Malèna Scordia in the Italian-language romantic drama *Malèna* (2000). She appeared in the controversial Gaspar Noé arthouse thriller *Irréversible* (2002), and played Mary Magdalene in Mel Gibson's biblical drama *The Passion of the Christ* (2004).

In the 2003 science-fiction films *The Matrix Reloaded* and *The Matrix Revolutions*, she played the character Persephone. In the 2015 James Bond film *Spectre*, she became the oldest Bond girl in the history of the franchise.