Happy Birthday Monica Bellucci

They say that Sofia Loren is the only truly international Italian actress, and maybe that’s true, but Monica Bellucci has followed in her footsteps.

Beautiful and intelligent, she was studying law before modeling, her “job to pay for college”, took over. We’ll never forget her as Malèna, but she’s more recently appeared in the Cannes Grand Prix winner, Le Meraviglie, from director Alice Rohrwacher.

You are 50 today, but Monica, if there’s anyone that could get away with lying about her age, it’s you.