Monica Bellucci

 Monica Anna Maria Bellucci, Italian actress and model (Italian named [mo:nika Bel'lutSi 30 September 1964) Following her first job as model for Dolce & Gabbana, she relocated to Italy and was an actor in the 1991 film of Francesco Laudadio's La Riffa. She was the Bride of Dracula in Francis Ford Coppola's horror film Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) in the next year. For her leading role in L'Appartement (1997) the actress was awarded the Cesar Award for Most Promising Actress. She played Malena Scordia in the Giuseppe Tornatore's critically acclaimed Italian romantic comedy Malena (2000). She was in Gaspar Noe's controversial and controversial arthouse psychological thriller film Irreversible (2002) that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.In 2004 she played Mary Magdalene in Mel Gibson's biblical drama The Passion of the Christ (2004). She played Persephone in the 2003 science-fiction film The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions.