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Caterina Murino
Occupation:Actor
Born:September 15, 1977
Birthplace:Italy
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About
Caterina Murino is an Italian theater, television, and film actress as well as a model. She is best known for her role in the James Bond movie Casino Royale.

Early Life
Caterina Murino was born on 15 September 1977 in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy. In the year 1996, she took part in the Miss Italy contest, finishing fourth. Following that, she shifted to London, where she was exposed to theater and grew increasingly interested in it. Although she initially planned to become a doctor, Murino returned to Italy and began studying drama at the Scuola di Cinema e Teatro.

Personal Life
Caterina Murino, along with Italian, also speaks fluent English and French, which has helped her land an assortment of movie roles. In 2009, she began dating Pierre Rabadan, a French international rugby player.

Movie Career
After acting in numerous theater productions in Italy, Caterina Murino acted in L'Enquete Corse (2004) and Les Bronzes 3: Amis pour la vie (2006), two French comedy films referred to in English as The Corsican Investigation and French Fried Vacation 3, respectively. In 2006, she also began appearing in Vientos de agua (Winds of Water), a cult Argentine-Spanish mini TV series.

The actress came under the spotlight with the James Bond film Casino Royale (2006). Murino essayed the role of Solange Dimitrios, the antagonist Dimitrios' wife, who James Bond, played by Daniel Craig, seduces. After acting in the blockbuster hit, Caterina Murino was seen in a minor role in the British comedy film St Trinian's (2007). The actress was then seen in movies like Il seme della discordia (2008), The Garden of Eden (2008), Alini e sospetti (2008), XII (2009), and Die (2010). In between 2011 and 2013, she starred in two TV shows- BBC's Zen, alongside Rufus Sewell, and Odysseus, where she plays Ulysses' wife Penelope. After lending her voice to the Chinese animated adventure film The Invincible Piglet (2015). Following her other 2015 releases The Squad, a French action film, and the Telugu action-thriller Chase, talks of the actress making her Bollywood debut began. The year 2016 saw her star in the Bollywood suspense thriller Fever, alongside Rajeev Khandelwal, Gauhar Khan, and Gemma Atkinson. The actress said that she was always excited at the prospect of being a part of Bollywood and enjoyed acting in the film. In 2017, Murino acted in the drama film Voice from the Stone, which also stars Emilia Clarke.

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Personal Quotes (3)

  • "When I did the Bond film, I was expecting everything yet nothing. I think that when you expect something, nothing happens."
  • "I do have ambition- I can dress up for a première, get in a limousine, but it's not my life. My life is wearing jeans and tennis shoes and traveling on the metro. I have to do that because otherwise, my acting is going to be false."
  • "Modeling was not very satisfying for me. I came to London to model, and I fell in love with the theater. I was eating yogurt every day so that I had the money to go to the theater. I saw everything. It's still my dream to be on stage in London."