Monica Bellucci

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Monica Anna Maria Bellucci (born September 30, 1964) is an Italian actress and former fashion model.<p>Bellucci was born in Città di Castello, Umbria, Italy, to Luigi Bellucci and Maria Gustinelli. Monica started modelling at 16, when she was attending to the Liceo Classico. Initially pursuing a career as a lawyer, by modeling Bellucci helped finance her tuition while at the University of Perugia, but the glamorous lifestyle tempted Monica away from her law studies.<p>She speaks Italian, French, and English fluently and has acted in each of these languages, as well as Aramaic.<p>She is married to fellow actor Vincent Cassel, with whom she has appeared in several films and had a daughter, named Deva (born September 12, 2004). In 2004, while pregnant with her daughter, Bellucci posed nude for the Italian Vanity Fair Magazine in protest against Italian laws that allow only married couples to use in-vitro fertilization and that prevent the use of donor sperm.<p>In 1988, Bellucci moved to one of...