Maria Grazia Cucinotta

Maria Grazia Cucinotta
Maria Grazia Cucinotta

Maria Grazia Cucinotta
Born Maria Grazia Cucinotta
27 July 1968 (1968-07-27) (age 43)
Messina, Province of Messina, Sicily, Italy
Nationality Italian, Sicilian
Citizenship Italian
Occupation Actress
Spouse Gino Violati

Maria Grazia Cucinotta (born 27 July 1968) is an Siciian/Italian actress who has featured in many films and television series since 1990, she has also worked as a producer, screenwriter and model.

Cucinotta was born in Messina, Province of Messina, Sicily, Italy. She is well-known in Italy as a movie and television actress, but internationally she is best known for her roles in Il Postino and as the Bond girl, the Cigar Girl, in the James Bond film The World Is Not Enough.

She guest starred in The Sopranos episode "Isabella". She also appeared on The Simpsons episode "The Italian Bob" voicing Sideshow Bob's wife, Francesca.

She won the America Award of the Italy-USA Foundation in 2010.

Maria Grazia Cucinotta is currently working in a new movie project in Brazil called Una Notte Senza Gloria (A Night Without Glory), alongside scriptwritter Luiz Filipe Corrêa da Costa Dias. It is a sequel to the movie by Federico Fellini, 8½. The movie project was presented in the traditional Italian school in São Paulo, Brazil, Colégio Dante Alighieri (Dante Alighieri School).

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Filmography

Cucinotta - 66th Venice International Film Festival, September 3, 2009
  • Vacanze di Natale '90 (1990)
  • Viaggio d'amore (1990)
  • Alto rischio (1993)
  • Cominciò tutto per caso (1993)
  • Abbronzatissimi 2 - un anno dopo (1993)
  • Il Postino (1994)
  • I Laureati (1995)
  • El día de la Bestia (1995)
  • Il Sindaco (1996)
  • Italiani (1996)
  • Il Decisionista (1997)
  • A Brooklyn State of Mind (1997)
  • Camere da letto (1997)
  • Ballad of the Nightingale (1998)
  • La Seconda moglie (1998)
  • The World Is Not Enough (1999)
  • Picking Up the Pieces (2000)
  • Just One Night (2000)
  • Stregati dalla luna (2001)
  • Strani accordi (2001)
  • Vaniglia e cioccolato (2004)
  • Mariti in affitto (2004)
  • Miracolo a Palermo! (2005)
  • All the Invisible Children (2005)
  • Uranya (2006)
  • Last Minute Marocco (2007)
  • Sweet Sweet Marja (2007)
  • Fly Light (2009)
  • Flores negras (2009)
  • L'imbroglio nel lenzuolo (2009)
  • Death of the Virgin (2009)
  • La bella società (2009)
  • Il rito (2010)
  • Un giorno della Vita (2010)
  • The Museum of Wonders (2010)
  • The Rite (2011 film) (2011)

Television appearances

  • Andy e Norman (1991)
  • La Ragnatela (1991)
  • Scherzi a parte (1992)
  • Alta società (1995)
  • La Signora della città (1996)
  • Solomon (1997)
  • Il Quarto re (1997)
  • Padre papà (1998)
  • Wildside - Lawyer episode (1998)
  • In punta di cuore (1999)
  • "Isabella" (1999, episode of The Sopranos)
  • L' Avvocato Porta (1997)
  • Amici di Gesù (2000)
  • Il Bello delle donne (2001)
  • Amici di Gesù (2001)
  • Marcinelle (2003)
  • The Italian Bob (2005, episode of The Simpsons)
  • Pompei (2007)
  • VIP (2008)

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