Published on September 30, 2024 at 2:33 p.m.
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Monica Bellucci in “Asterix and Obelix: Mission Cleopatra” (2001) – © Etienne GEORGE / RENN PRODUCTIONS / TF1
The actress celebrates her 60th birthday this Monday, September 30. For the occasion, a look back at his most emblematic roles in his career.
She is celebrating her 60th birthday. This Monday, September 30, Monica Bellucci begins a new decade. In addition to her brilliant career as a model – she has paraded for Dolce & Gabbana, Fendi, etc. – the Italian tried her hand at acting in the 1990s. After a few roles in Italian films, she joined the cast of “Dracula », one of Francis Ford Coppola’s best films. In 1996, with a certain notoriety in France, Monica Bellucci landed her first role in a French film: “L’Appartement”, by Gilles Mimouni. A performance which earned her a nomination for the César, in the best female hopeful category. The following year, she played in “Dobermann” by Jan Kounen in which she opposite a certain Vincent Cassel. From this shoot is born a love story that will mark the seventh art.
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Unmissable films
Very quickly, feature films followed one another in France and internationally. And made Keanu Reeves, Robert De Niro, Winona Ryder or even Sophie Marceau and Julianne Moore his playmates.
Among her most emblematic roles which make up her filmography, we immediately think of that of Cleopatra in “Asterix and Obelix: Mission Cleopatra” by Alain Chabat, Alex in “Irréversible” by Gaspar Noé, one of the concubines in “Dracula » by Francis Ford Coppola (film awarded three Oscars), but also Persephone in the “Matrix” saga, alongside Lambert Wilson, or even Lucia in “007 Specter”.
