- Source of Wealth: Modeling, Acting
- Age: 55
- Birth Place: Città di Castello, Umbria, Italy
- Height: 1.71 m (5′ 7″)
- Weight: 64 kg (140 lbs)
- Marital Status: Divorced (Vincent Cassel)
- Full Name: Monica Anna Maria Bellucci
- Nationality: Italian
- Date of Birth: 30 September 1964
- Ethnicity: Italian
- Occupation: Actress and Fashion Model
- Education: University of Perugia
- Children: 2 (Deva and Leoni)
Monica Bellucci, also known as Monica Anna Maria Bellucci is a fashion model and an actress from Italy. Her net worth is estimated to be $45 million.
She was born in Umbria, Italy, as the only child of Pasquale Bellucci and Brunella Briganti. She started modeling when she was just 13 years old. Monica posed for a local photographer who could see the potential so early on in her life. In 1988, Monica moved to Milan to further her modeling career. She signed a deal with Elita Model Management. Within just a year, she was already making a name in Paris and also in New York. She has posed for French Elle and Dolce & Gabbana and has made considerable wealth from the modeling assignments. She has also been featured on Maxim and Desire.
She switched over to acting around this time, though Monica never left her primary love, which is modeling altogether. Over the years, Bellucci has acted in The Passion of the Christ, The Matrix Reloaded, Tears of the Sun, The Matrix Revolutions, Under Suspicion and in many other movies. She has been nominated several times and has won many awards for her acting skills. European Golden Globe, Saturn Award, Silver Ribbon, and the MTV Movie Awards are just a few of them. She has acted in many movies with Vincent Cassel, who is her husband.
Monica has been a judge in the 59th Cannes Film Festival. She has been named in the list of the “100 Hottest Women of All-Time” by Men’s Health – she was 21st. AskMen named Monica as the most desirable woman of 2002. Empire magazine has rated her as 21st in the list of “The Sexiest 25 Characters in Cinema – The Women”.