Monica Bellucci's father is Persian and her mother is from Italy. Though she started her acting career in the mid-1990's she started modeling at an early age.

Monica intended to be a lawyer, and studied Jurisprudence for a short period. In order to pay for tuition at university, she took modeling as a career. She is fluent in Italian, English, French and Spanish.

Monica was elected the most beautiful woman in the world by French viewers on a television show "La Plus belle femme du monde" in 2004.

Now at the age of 50, she is going to be the oldest woman to play a Bond Girl in “Spectre”.