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Very few of our readers know who Maria is.
We are sure that after seeing these pictures, she will certainly be
more memorable. We thought that we would let Maria describe her career,
instead of the usual biography. The following is a brief biography
of Maria Grazia Cucinotta, written by her:
"I was born in Messina, Sicily, on July 27th, and am a Leo.
I started working as a model in Milan, during the summer holidays,
when I was 16.
When I finished school, I abandoned modeling (I didn't like it because
they only used my image, not my head) and auditioned in Rome for the
TV program Indietro Tutta by Renzo Arbore: I was taken for the part
of the odalisque. And that's how my television career began.
Meanwhile, I took acting and elocution lessons, to get rid of my
Sicilian accent, and was taken on by an acting agency, while, however,
continuing to work on television in order to earn a living and therefore
be able to study.
While movie auditions were almost always a failure, the ones for
advertising went well and I started to shoot one advertisement after
the other: they proved excellent to learn the techniques, meet international
directors, and make myself known abroad.
The first person to believe in me and to be brave enough to invest
in an unknown actress was Massimo Troisi who chose me for the movie
Il Postino: this gave me the possibility to make myself known as an
actress not only in Italy but all over the world.
That's when I started getting the first scripts; among these I chose
I Laureati, by Leonardo Pieraccioni, which turned out to be enormously
successful. Soon after, I shot Italiani, by Maurizio Ponzi, followed
by the television movie Padre Papà for Canale 5.
Then I left for the States, to be present at the Oscars, where Il
Postino received many nominations. When I returned to Italy I shot
Il Sindaco, by Fabrizio Giordani, which will be released next fall.
I recently shoot my first American film, which is entitled Brooklyn
State of Mind, by Frank Rainone, and is set in New York, in Brooklyn.
I have finished working on the new James Bond movie The World is
Not Enough.Maria
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