“I’m not a girl, I’m a woman, I’m a mature woman. Do I have to replace Judi Dench?”
- #wikipedia
- #quote
- #trusted-source
- #www.theguardian.com
- #corroborated
Figure timeline
Monica Bellucci
Monica Anna Maria Bellucci is an Italian actress who began her career as a fashion model before working in Italian, American, British, and French films. She has filmography in a range of genres and languages, and her accolades include the David di Donatello, Globo d'oro, Nastro d'Argento and nominations at Saturn Awards and César Awards. In 2018, Forbes Italy included her in their list of the 100…
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
entertainment · Italian actress and model (born 1964) · film actor · model · voice actor · actor · fashion model · also Monica Bellucci, Bellucci
Born 30 September 1964 · Q81819
79 published statements · 0 followers
See & hear
Photos & media
11 photos
Media from Wikimedia Commons, hotlinked at the source under its own licence — see each file for author and terms.
Live now
In the news
Pulling headlines from trusted outlets — this usually takes a few seconds
Checking the wires…
Feed scan
These are live links, not archived citations — they only join the timeline once a collect run verifies and archives them.
Live pulse
Recent highlights
Most recent outstanding titles, awards, and quotes
- Quote
- Quote
2026· 17 entries
“one of the most beautiful roles”
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #quote
“auteur (auteur film) The Stone Council. Bellucci was cast after the initial announcement of Sophie Marceau for the lead role in the thriller. The Stone Council was adapted from the eponymous novel by Jean-Christophe Grangé. The film differs by character names; the book”
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #quote
“Modelling came to me naturally, and I loved pictures. I loved the world of image”
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #quote
“Certainly a lot of positivity also depends on the climate in which my parents raised me”
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #quote
Deadline: Locarno Film Festival Winners: Florin Șerban, Monica Bellucci & Hong Sangsoo Among Victors
- #news
- #headline
Where Bellucci's performance was highlighted by critics for its sense of irony and project of a "self-aware drama queen"
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Published video “Monica Bellucci | The Matrix”.
- #social
- #youtube
- #self-published
Published video “Monica Bellucci | The Art of Subtle Emotion”.
- #social
- #youtube
- #self-published
- #corroborated
Published video “Getting Ready | Monica Bellucci”.
- #social
- #youtube
- #self-published
Published video “Tuscan Sun | Monica Bellucci”.
- #social
- #youtube
- #self-published
Published video “Night at the event | Monica Bellucci”.
- #social
- #youtube
- #self-published
Published video “Unique Experience | Monica Bellucci”.
- #social
- #youtube
- #self-published
Published video “Monica Bellucci | Ellen von Unwerth”.
- #social
- #youtube
- #self-published
Published video “Monica Bellucci | Dance Time”.
- #social
- #youtube
- #self-published
Published video “Monica Bellucci | Behind the Scenes for Harper’s Bazaar”.
- #social
- #youtube
- #self-published
Bellucci starred in the Italian coming-of-age drama film Ketticè, written and directed by Giovanni Tortorici and produced by Luca Guadagnino
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2023· 3 entries
Recalling Irréversible, Bellucci told The New York Times her "days of acting in transgressive movies are behind her" because she is a mother
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
“days of acting in transgressive movies are behind her”
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #quote
Bellucci entered talks to star in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice as Delores, Betelgeuse's ex-wife and the movie's villain
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2022· 1 entry
Bellucci performed Maria Callas: Letters and Memoirs at Her Majesty's Theatre in London, Chatelet Theatre in Paris, and at venues in Istanbul and Los Angeles
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2021· 2 entries
“up to date with my tax obligations both in France and abroad”
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #quote
At the 66th David di Donatello ceremony, Bellucci received a David Special Award for her career achievements
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2020· 1 entry
Bellucci starred as Soraya in the Oscar-nominated film The Man Who Sold His Skin, which Kaouther Ben Hania directed
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2018· 5 entries
Awarded Honorary Lumière Award (2018).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
Bellucci appeared in the third season of the France 2 comedy television series Dix pour cent (Ten Per cent), playing herself with self-mockery
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Forbes Italy included her in their list of the 100 most successful Italian women
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Bellucci was included in Forbes Italy's list of "Successful women: the 100 winning Italian women"
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Bellucci had a leading role in the Australian comedy science-fiction horror film Nekrotronic, playing a necromancer and demonic soul-eater
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2017· 4 entries
Awarded Donostia Award (2017).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences invited Bellucci to become a permanent member representing Italy, becoming one of the voting jurors who award the annual Academy Awards (Oscars)
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Bellucci appeared in the 14th episode of the third season of Twin Peaks, playing a fictional version of herself in a dream experienced by FBI Deputy Director Gordon Cole (David Lynch) in which she dines with him in Paris
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Received the honorary Donostia Award at the San Sebastián International Film Festival
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2016· 3 entries
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (2016).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
Bellucci had a guest role in the third season of the American comedy-drama streaming television series Mozart in the Jungle, an adaptation of Blair Tindall's memoir Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music,
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Showing Bellucci swimming on her back in a pool, and body parts were hidden in yellow pixels
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2015· 2 entries
“I am entirely Italian. Everything about me is Italian”
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #quote
Bellucci starred as Sophie Bernard in the Canadian drama film Ville-Marie, which was directed by Guy Édoin
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2014· 1 entry
Bellucci appeared in Alice Rohrwacher's The Wonders as Milly Catena, host of a televised contest
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2012· 2 entries
Bellucci said she had never undergone cosmetic procedures, saying: "I don't like the idea of having my face retouched and, frankly, I think it's quite dangerous for an actress
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Bellucci was the face of an eponymous range of Dolce & Gabbana lipstick
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2011· 1 entry
Bellucci was ranked fourth in Los Angeles Times Magazine's list of the "50 most beautiful women in film"
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2010· 3 entries
Rizzoli and La Martinière Groupe published a book prefaced by Tornatore that described Bellucci's modelling and acting careers through photographs taken by Peter Lindbergh and Helmut Newton
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Bellucci became patron of Paroles de Femmes (Words of Women), an apolitical, secular French association promoting equality between men and women in society
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Bellucci portrayed Laura Leviani in Larysa Kondracki's biopic drama thriller The Whistleblower, which was primarily filmed in Romania and depicts a vast human trafficking network that was discovered in post-war Bosnia an
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2009· 1 entry
Alongside filmmakers from Europe and the US, and 70 other industry names, Bellucci signed a petition to support film director Roman Polanski, who had been arrested in connection with his 1977 sexual abuse charges while o
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2008· 2 entries
Co-starred in Marco Tullio Giordana's Wild Blood with Luca Zingaretti
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Bellucci supported a fundraising campaign for a centre for children with cancer located in Prima Porta, Italy
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2006· 4 entries
Was named brand ambassador for Dior and the face of a range of products until 2010
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Bellucci starred alongside Daniel Auteuil in Paolo Virzì's period comedy-drama Napoleon and Me as baroness Emilia, who has a turbulent relationship Martino (Elio Germano)
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
And of the French Legion of Honour in 2016
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
In a 2006 interview, Bellucci said she met Basso in 1987, when he recruited her for a photography session; she was 23 and he was five years older.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #life
- #personal-life
2004· 6 entries
“Se non ci fosse la Sicilia, il cinema non esisterebbe. Tutte le grandi storie sono nate qui.”
- #wikiquote
- #saying
- #undated
- #lang:en
- #lang:it
- #multi-edition
“It's important for me to find different things and prove I can do them. … Someone told me that inside all actors are many sleeping princesses, and each time we do a role, one of those princesses wakes up. Inside us there is everything. We just have to look for it.”
- #wikiquote
- #saying
- #undated
- #lang:en
“Sto attenta a quello che mangio quando ho degli incarichi di lavoro, ma non mi faccio travolgere dalle diete. Sono sempre stata una donna curvy, mai veramente magra: è la mia natura e voglio invecchiare serenamente.”
- #wikiquote
- #saying
- #undated
- #lang:en
- #lang:it
- #multi-edition
While pregnant with her first child, Bellucci posed nude for the Italian cover of Vanity Fair in a protest against Italian laws that restricted access to in vitro fertilisation
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
And 2007 in an Ipsos survey of 1,002 people in France that was commissioned by TF1
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Bellucci and Cassel have two daughters, Deva (born 12 September 2004) and Léonie (born 21 May 2010), both of whom were born in Rome.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #life
- #personal-life
2003· 2 entries
Bellucci played Alessia in the Italian film Remember Me, My Love, which was directed by Gabriele Muccino and earned Bellucci the Nastro d'Argento award for Best Supporting Actress
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Chris Campion of The Daily Telegraph stated: "'La Bellucci' is Italy's national sweetheart and an icon of European cinema"
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2002· 2 entries
Bellucci co-starred with Cassel in Gaspar Noé's "violent" arthouse thriller Irréversible
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
AskMen named her number one on the "Top 99 Most Desirable Women"
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2001· 1 entry
Bellucci was pictured nude with caviar on her breasts on the cover of Esquire's Desire issue
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2000· 2 entries
Bellucci caught the attention of American audiences with her first English-language lead role in Hopkins' Under Suspicion, in which she starred opposite Morgan Freeman and Gene Hackman
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
And was photographed by Gian Paolo Barbieri
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1997· 2 entries
Bellucci became the brand ambassador and muse of Cartier jewellery
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
At the age of 33 when Avedon photographed her for the Pirelli Calendar
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1995· 1 entry
Their relationship became unstable because other men increasingly lusted after Bellucci and the couple separated in 1995.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #life
- #personal-life
1993· 1 entry
First met Giuseppe Tornatore when he directed her in a television advertisement for Dolce & Gabbana perfume
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1992· 2 entries
Bellucci played one of the three brides of Dracula in the horror film Bram Stoker's Dracula
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Bellucci combined her work as a model with her acting debut
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1991· 1 entry
Bellucci was the brand ambassador for the cosmetics company L'Oréal
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1990· 3 entries
The French luxury house Dior used Bellucci's image and name for its Haute Couture line
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Bellucci and Basso married in Monte-Carlo on 3 January 1990.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #life
- #personal-life
Italian director Carlo Vanzina noticed a photo of Monica Bellucci in a magazine and recommended her to Dino Risi, who was looking for a "new face" for his television miniseries Vita coi figli
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1989· 1 entry
Bellucci lived in New York and was already a millionaire
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1988· 1 entry
Featured on the cover of Elle France, photographed by Oliviero Toscani, and Vogue Spain
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1983· 1 entry
Bellucci was dressed by Città di Castello-based fashion entrepreneur Pina Alberti and modelled at a fashion show at the Teatro degli Illuminati, the city's municipal theatre, as part of an event called Momento Donna, whi
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1964· 1 entry
Born 1964-09-30.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #birth