​Monica Anna Maria Bellucci (born 30 September 1964) is an Italian actress and model. She began her career as a fashion model, modelling for Dolce & Gabbana and Dior, before making a transition to Italian films and later American films and French films.

Bellucci played a Bride of Dracula in Francis Ford Coppola's gothic romance film Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) and Malèna Scordia in the Italian-language romantic drama Malèna (2000). She was in the controversial Gaspar Noé arthouse horror film Irréversible (2002), and portrayed Mary Magdalene in Mel Gibson's biblical drama The Passion of the Christ (2004).

In the 2015 James Bond film Spectre, she became the oldest Bond girl in the history of the franchise.

​Considerata una delle più celebri sex symbol a cavallo tra gli anni 1990 e 2000, nella sua carriera ha preso parte a svariati film di notevole successo internazionale, fra cui Dracula di Bram Stoker di Francis Ford Coppola, Malèna di Giuseppe Tornatore, Matrix Reloaded e Matrix Revolutions di Larry e Andy Wachowski, La passione di Cristo di Mel Gibson, I fratelli Grimm e l'incantevole strega di Terry Gilliam e Spectre di Sam Mendes, ed è stata molte volte protagonista di pellicole destinate a far discutere a causa delle scene di violenza in esse contenute: fra le più note Dobermann e Irréversible

Nel 2003 è la prima donna italiana cui viene affidato il ruolo di madrina del Festival di Cannes, 56ª edizione. Nel 2004 diventa la prima personalità non francese scelta per attivare l'illuminazione degli Champs Élysees nella tradizionale cerimonia natalizia. È stata membro della giuria in rappresentanza dell'Italia al Festival di Cannes 2006, e torna ad essere madrina dello stesso nel 2017, in occasione della 70ª edizione. Su invito dell'Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences diventa membro fisso nella minoranza italiana votante dell'accademia, esprimendo per la prima volta il voto nel 2018 in occasione della 90ª edizione dei Premi Oscar.

​Bellucci was born 30 September 1964 in Città di Castello, Umbria, Italy, as the only child of her parents, and grew up in Lama of San Giustino.

​Monica Bellucci began modelling at age 13 by posing for a local photo enthusiast. In 1988, Bellucci left the Faculty of Law at the University of Perugia, and moved to one of Europe's fashion centers, Milan, where she signed with Elite Model Management. By 1989, she was becoming prominent as a fashion model in Paris and across the Atlantic, in New York City. She posed for Dolce & Gabbana and French Elle, among others. In that year, Bellucci made the transition to acting and began taking acting classes.

​In 1990 Bellucci married Italian photographer Claudio Carlos Basso; they divorced after 18 months. After her divorce, she was in relationship of Italian actor Nicola Farron for several years.

​Bellucci's film career began in the early 1990s.

In 1996, she met French actor Vincent Cassel on the set of the film The Apartment. Bellucci was nominated for a César Award for best supporting actress for her role in the film.

Considered Italian sex symbol like Sophia Loren before her, Bellucci is featured widely in magazines, particularly the men's magazines.

The February 2001 Esquire's feature on Desire featured Bellucci on the cover and in an article on the five senses. ​

In 2002 AskMen named her the number one most desirable woman. 

In 2003, she was featured in Maxim. Men's Health also named her one of the "100 Hottest Women of All-Time", ranking her at No. 21.

In 2004, while pregnant with her first daughter Deva, Bellucci posed nude for the Italian Vanity Fair. In 2010, she posed again April issue while pregnant with her second daughter Léonie.

In February 2016 Bellucci posed for GQ Italia .

​Nel 1988 approda a Milano, dove sfila sulle più importanti passerelle sotto contratto con l'Elite Model Management. L'anno successivo, raggiunge la fama a Parigi e a New York.

Ha sfilato per Dolce&Gabbana, Fendi e tutte le più importanti griffe mondiali. Ha guadagnato la copertina della rivista francese Elle e di Vogue.

​Sposa molto giovane il fotografo italiano di origine argentina Claudio Carlos Basso con una cerimonia molto riservata, ma i due si separano nel giro di qualche mese.

​L'esordio nel mondo della recitazione avviene nel 1990 con la miniserie televisiva Vita coi figli, a fianco di Nicola Farron, con cui ha una relazione di circa sei anni.

​È nell'anno successivo che esordisce nel cinema con un ruolo da protagonista nel film La riffa. Nel 1992 fa la sua prima comparsa in un film in lingua inglese: Dracula di Bram Stoker (diretto da Francis Ford Coppola).

​Nel 1996, dopo aver già conquistato notevole fama oltralpe come modella, esordisce nel cinema francese con un ruolo da protagonista nel film L'appartement; interpretazione che le varrà una candidatura ai Premi César. Da questo momento in poi la sua carriera d'attrice si avvia e sviluppa con successo anche in Francia.

Finché sul set del film L'appartamento, conosce l'esordiente attore francese Vincent Cassel. I due si sposano il 3 agosto 1999 a Montecarlo e hanno due figlie, nate entrambe in Italia, a Roma, per volontà dell'attrice: Deva, il 12 settembre 2004 e Léonie, il 21 maggio 2010.

Ma è dal 2000, con l'uscita nelle sale di Malèna (regia di Giuseppe Tornatore), che Monica Bellucci ottiene l'affermazione definitiva nel cinema e una sempre maggiore popolarità in tutto il mondo, facendola conoscere dapprima in Europa e poi in America e Asia.

Oltre all'italiano parla correntemente il francese e l'inglese; conosce anche il portoghese e lo spagnolo. Ha inoltre recitato in aramaico, persiano, serbo, latino, in un dialetto del sud francese e in diversi dialetti italiani.

Nel 1997 è immortalata da Richard Avedon nel Calendario Pirelli. Ha posato per il calendario sexy della rivista Max (1999), fotografata da Fabrizio Ferri, e l'anno successivo è la protagonista del calendario sexy di GQ, fotografata questa volta da Gianpaolo Barbieri.

​​Nella lista "Le 50 donne più sexy del mondo" di Maxim del 1999 è stata collocata al sesto posto; dalla stessa rivista è stata collocata al nono della lista "Le 100 donne più sexy del mondo" nel 2002, e alla prima posizione nella lista "Le donne più desiderate" della testata online AskMen nello stesso anno.

​Nel 2003, diventa testimonial del profumo Sicily per Dolce&Gabbana. Nel 2007 diventa testimonial di Cartier per la linea di gioielli Délices, nel novembre 2007 diventa testimonial per Intimissimi.

Dal 2008 diventa testimonial del rossetto Rouge Dior, anche la linea di borse e accessori

Nel 2012, è la testimonial di una linea di rossetti a lei dedicata dalla linea make up dei due stilisti Dolce&Gabbana. 

​Nel marzo 2009 le viene conferito il World Actress Award durante la cerimonia dei Women's World Awards, tenutasi a Vienna. ​

A dicembre 2014 entra nel cast di Spectre, ventiquattresimo capitolo della saga di James Bond, diretto da Sam Mendes, nel quale veste i panni di Lucia Sciarra, vedova di un uomo mafioso rimasto ucciso; nell'occasione, a cinquant'anni compiuti e con quattro anni in più rispetto al protagonista Daniel Craig, diviene la Bond girl più matura di sempre della serie cinematografica.

Nel giugno 2017 l'Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences la invita al suo interno come membro fisso in rappresentanza dell'Italia, accettando entra a far parte della numerosa giuria di votanti responsabili di assegnare i Premi Oscar dall'edizione del 2018 in poi.

Il Festival Filming On Italy di Los Angeles le dedica l'intera giornata del 31 gennaio 2018 proiettando alcuni suoi film e consegnandole due riconoscimenti: il Filming On Italy Best Career Award alla carriera e l'IIC Los Angeles Creativity Award dell'Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Los Angeles come "eccellenza italiana nel mondo".

François Boucher, né le 29 septembre 1703 à Paris où il est mort le 30 mai 1770, est un peintre français, représentatif du style rococo.

Maître particulièrement prolifique, Boucher a abordé tous les genres : peinture religieuse, sujets mythologiques, scènes rustiques, paysages, animaux, décorations de monuments et de maisons particulières, modèles de tapisserie. C’est peut-être le plus célèbre peintre et artiste décoratif du xviiie siècle, dont on a pu dire qu’il était l’un des génies les plus purs. Il estimait lui-même, un an avant sa mort, avoir produit plus de dix mille dessins, mais trouvait encore le temps de travailler dix heures par jour à des représentations idylliques et voluptueuses de thèmes classiques, mythologiques et érotiques, d’allégories décoratives et de scènes pastorales. Nombre de ces toiles, réalisées pour la décoration intérieure, constituent des paires ou des séries. Il était peintre de la cour de Louis XV et le favori de la marquise de Pompadour, dont il a peint plusieurs portraits.

Fils unique d’Élisabeth Lemesle et de Nicolas Boucher, maître peintre et dessinateur de l’Académie de Saint-Luc, il reçoit les premières leçons de son père, mais il montrait de telles dispositions que celui-ci décida de le faire travailler sous une direction plus qualifiée que la sienne.

Vers 1720, il entre, âgé de 17 ans, dans l’atelier de Lemoyne, qui l’initia aux secrets de la peinture décorative et des grandes scènes mythologiques, dans lesquelles il était spécialisé. Il ne resta que fort peu de temps dans cet atelier de Lemoyne, quelques mois à peine.

Pour se procurer les ressources nécessaires pour vivre, il dut accepter des travaux de dessin et de gravure du graveur et éditeur Jean-François Cars. Ses premiers essais décidèrent le collectionneur Jean de Jullienne à lui passer commandes de gravures d'après Watteau.

Cette période de son apprentissage fut des plus profitables à Boucher qui trouva dans les œuvres de Watteau, qui venait de mourir, en 1722, tous les éléments de sa propre inspiration. Très épris de son art, il voulait entrer à I‘Académie et s’efforçait de perfectionner sa technique, travaillant à la fois le dessin, la gravure et la peinture.

Il se forma également auprès de Sebastiano Ricci et Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini, actifs à Paris dans les années 17208.

En 1723, il concourut au prix de l’Académie de peinture, en attendant qu’une pension pût lui être attribuée pour l’Académie de France à Rome, il continua à graver pour Jullienne. En 1725, il exposait pour la première fois, quelques tableaux à l’Exposition de la jeunesse de la place Dauphine.

​Deux ans plus tard, en 1727, ayant réuni quelque argent,  il partit pour Rome, comme élève libre. À peine arrivé, Boucher se mit au travail.

Après un séjour de près de quatre années en Italie, il rentra à Paris.

Agréé dès son retour à l’Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, le 24 novembre 1731, il devint immédiatement le peintre mondain, le portraitiste semi-officiel des femmes à la mode, épouses ou maîtresses des financiers, gagnant une fortune rapide et un renom considérable.

Les commandes commencent à affluer, et c’est de 1732 que date la réalisation de Renaud et Armide, inspiré de la Jérusalem délivrée du Tasse, où le modèle de la blonde Armide est Marie-Jeanne Buseau, la jeune fille de 17 ans qu’il épousera le 21 avril 1733. Au dire de ses contemporains, Marie-Jeanne était remarquablement jolie, et Boucher semble s’en être souvent inspiré dans ses créations de jeunes beautés radieuses et triomphantes. Elle posa également pour d'autres peintres de leur entourage comme La Tour, Lundberg ou le peintre suédois Roslin. Marie-Jeanne Boucher travailla avec son mari, grava quelques-uns de ses dessins, et reproduisit en miniature plusieurs de ses tableaux.

Le 30 janvier 1734, il est reçu comme peintre d'histoire, à l’Académie royale sur présentation de son tableau de 1732, Renaud et Armide, aujourd’hui conservé au Louvre, et Oudry. 

Le 2 juillet 1735, il est nommé, avec Carle Van Loo et Natoire, adjoint à professeur de l'Académie.

Même s'il a été marqué par le style du peintre Lemoyne, Boucher trouve vers 1736 son style propre en devenant, en peinture, le maître incontesté du style rocaille. Principal peintre du rococo français, il devient le peintre à la mode. Il obtient la faveur de Madame de Pompadour dont il fera à plusieurs reprises, le portrait et composera pour elle ses œuvres les plus raffinées dans les années 1650, ainsi que des décors pour son château de Bellevue et pour son boudoir de Crécy. 

Il travaille également pour de hauts personnages de la cour, comme le duc de Penthièvren  ou pour des souverains étrangers (Le Triomphe de Vénus en 1740 pour le roi de Suède). Il est un grand ami du général Montmorency.

En 1765, il succède à Carle Van Loo comme Premier peintre de Louis XV. Travaillant avec une extrême facilité, il se vante d'avoir gagné jusqu'à 50 000 francs par an. Il participe à la décoration des châteaux de Versailles et de Fontainebleau, à celle du cabinet des Médailles de la Bibliothèque nationale (1741-1746).

Il invente des décors pour le théâtre et l'opéra et donne aussi de nombreux modèles à la manufacture de Vincennes de 1750 à 1755 puis à la manufacture royale de Sèvres, essentiellement entre 1757 et 1767. Ses figures d'enfants, dits Enfants Boucher sont traduites sous forme de motifs peints ou de biscuits et également de petites pièces de tapisseries destinées à l'ameublement.

Associé avec le marchand d'art Edme-François Gersaint, François Boucher est l'introducteur du goût pour les chinoiseries, des objets et des artéfacts venant de Chine, du Japon ou du royaume de Siam. Certains de ses objets apparaissent en second plan dans ses tableaux " La toilette, 1742" ( Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid,) ou " Femme allongée au divan" (Frick Collection, New York). 

Son style passe de mode avec l'arrivée du néoclassicisme vers 1760. Jusqu'à sa mort, en 1770, Boucher garde son style et expose ses œuvres au Salon, excepté lors de l'édition 1767.

François Boucher (29 September 1703 – 30 May 1770) was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher, who worked in the Rococo style. Boucher is known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, decorative allegories, and pastoral scenes. He was perhaps the most celebrated painter and decorative artist of the 18th century.

A native of Paris, Boucher was the son of a lesser known painter Nicolas Boucher, who gave him his first artistic training. At the age of seventeen, a painting by Boucher was admired by the painter François Lemoyne who later appointed Boucher as his apprentice, but after only three months, he went to work for the engraver Jean-François Cars.

In 1720, he won the elite Grand Prix de Rome for painting, but did not take up the consequential opportunity to study in Italy until five years later, due to financial problems at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture.

On his return from studying in Italy for about 4 years, Boucher was admitted to the refounded Académie de peinture et de sculpture on 24 November 1731. 

Boucher married Marie-Jeanne Buzeau, whom he used as his model for his painting Rinaldo and Armida of 1734

Boucher became a faculty member in 1734 and his career accelerated from this point as he was promoted Professor then Rector of the Academy, becoming inspector at the Royal Gobelins Manufactory and finally Premier Peintre du Roi (First Painter of the King) in 1765.

Boucher died on 30 May 1770 in his native Paris. His name, along with that of his patron Madame de Pompadour, had become synonymous with the French Rococo style, leading the Goncourt brothers to write: "Boucher is one of those men who represent the taste of a century, who express, personify and embody it."

Deborah Jane Trimmer CBE, known professionally as Deborah Kerr, was a Scottish film, theatre, and television actress. She was nominated six times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, and holds the record for an actress most nominated in the lead actress category without winning.

During her international film career, Kerr won a Golden Globe Award for her performance as Anna Leonowens in the musical film The King and I (1956). She is also eternally remembered for her performances in films like From Here to Eternity (1953), Tea and Sympathy (1956), An Affair to Remember (1957) in which she played opposite Cary Grant, etc.

In 1967 at age 46, Deborah Kerr starred in Casino Royale, achieving the distinction of being the oldest Bond Girl in any of the James Bond films.

In 1994, having already received honorary awards from the Cannes Film Festival and BAFTA, Deborah Kerr received an Academy Honorary Award with a citation recognising her as "an artist of impeccable grace and beauty, a dedicated actress whose motion picture career has always stood for perfection, discipline and elegance".

Deborah Jane Trimmer was born on 30 September 1921 in Hillhead, Glasgow. Her father Capt. Arthur Charles Kerr Trimmer was a World War I veteran and pilot who lost a leg at the Battle of the Somme and later became a naval architect and civil engineer.

Kerr originally trained as a ballet dancer, She went to the Sadler's Wells ballet school and in 1938 made her début in the corps de ballet in Prometheus at Sadler's Wells when she was 17 years old.

After becoming actress, she adopted the name Deborah Kerr, a family name and she made clear that her surname should be pronounced the same as "car".

Kerr became known in Britain playing the lead role in the film of Love on the Dole (1941).

In 1942, she starred with Robert Newton and James Mason in Hatter's Castle which was very successful, the same year she played a Norwegian resistance fighter in The Day Will Dawn which make her an immediate hit with the public: An American film trade paper reported in 1942 that she was the most popular British actress with Americans.

On 29 November 1945, Deborah Kerr married Squadron Leader Anthony Bartley in London, England. They had two daughters. The marriage was troubled, owing to Bartley's jealousy of his wife's fame and financial success, and because her career often took her away from home. They divorced in 1959.

In 1947, Deborah Kerr’s role as a troubled nun in Black Narcissus brought her to the attention of Hollywood producers. The film was a hit in the US, as well as the UK, and Kerr won the New York Film Critics Award as Actress of the Year. British exhibitors voted her the eighth-most popular local star at the box-office in 1947. She relocated to Hollywood and was under contract to MGM.

Kerr's first film in Hollywood was a mature satire of the burgeoning advertising industry, The Hucksters (1947) with Clark Gable and Ava Gardner. She received the first of her Oscar nominations for Edward, My Son (1949), a drama set and filmed in England co-starring Spencer Tracy.

Kerr departed from typecasting with a performance that brought out her sensuality, as "Karen Holmes", the embittered military wife in Fred Zinnemann's From Here to Eternity (1953), for which she received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress. The American Film Institute ranked it 20th in its list of the 100 most romantic films of all time.

Having established herself as a film actress in the meantime, she made her Broadway debut in 1953, appearing in Robert Anderson's Tea and Sympathy, for which she received a Tony Award nomination.

Thereafter, Kerr's career choices would make her known in Hollywood for her versatility as an actress.

In 1956 she played Anna Leonowens in the film version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I with Yul Brynner which was a huge hit.

Then the next year in 1957, she starred in An Affair to Remember opposite Cary Grant which became her most iconic and remembered role ever.

On 23 July 1960, Kerr was married to author Peter Viertel Although she long resided in Klosters, Switzerland and Marbella, Spain, Kerr moved back to Britain to be closer to her own children as her health began to deteriorate. Her husband Viertel continued to live in Marbella.

Although she worked in various films although the 60s, including the comedy Casino Royale in 1967 in which she achieved the distinction of being the oldest "Bond Girl" in any James Bond film at age 45, none of the roles could compare with the ones she was offered in the 50s at the peak of her stardom. And thus Deborah Kerr abandoned the small screen at the end of the 1960s in favour of television and theatre work.

Kerr played in various TV dramas and was nominated for an Emmy Award for her role of older Emma Harte, a tycoon, in the TV adaptation of Barbara Taylor Bradford's A Woman of Substance.

But despite her success on the big and small screens, theatre always remained Kerr's first love, even though going on stage filled her with trepidation.

Kerr's first stage appearance was at Weston-super-Mare in 1937, as "Harlequin" in the mime play Harlequin and Columbine.

Decades later, Kerr returned to the London stage in many productions including the title role in a production of George Bernard Shaw's Candida.


In 1975, she also returned to Broadway, creating the role of Nancy in Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Seascape.

Kerr died aged 86 on 16 October 2007 at Botesdale, a village in the county of Suffolk, England, from the effects of Parkinson's disease. Less than three weeks later on 4 November, her husband Peter Viertel died of cancer.