Monica Belluci - that Italian actress with the wow-wow body, the big dark eyes and luscious lips. A little bit about Monica, one of the hot women of Hollywood.
She was once a model and has made lots of movies since...
Some of Monica's film credits are: The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, Don't Look Back, L'Uomo che ama, Shoot 'Em Up, and The Brothers Grimm.
She studied law at the University of Perugia, Italy, and started modeling to help pay for school. However, modeling became more profitable and she quit her studies to pursue it full time.
In 1988 she moved to Milan and signed up with the Elite Model Management Agency. While shooting a commercial for Dolce & Gabban perfume, she met the director Guiseppe Tornatore who would cast her in the acclaimed file Malena in 2000.
In 1992, she got her U.S. film break with the small role in Francis Ford Coppola's hit movie, Bram Stoker's Dracula.
In 1996, she starred in the French film "l'Appartment" co-starring with her future husband Vincent Cassel.
Her 2002 Film "Irreversible", a horrific film about rape opened the Cannes Film Festival.
