Maria Grazia Cucinotta

Name: Maria Grazia Cucinotta
Height: 5' 10½
Sex: F
Nationality: Italian
Birth Date: July 27, 1969
Birth Place: Messina, Italy
Profession: actress, model
Husband/Wife: Giulio Violati (married on October 8, 1995)
   

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Quotes
  • he first person to believe in Maria and to be brave enough to invest in an unknown actress was Massimo Troisi who chose her for the movie IL POSTINO: this gave her the possibility to make herself known as an actress not only in Italy but all over the world
  • ets her first American movie role in A BROOKLYN STATE OF MIND with Vincent Span
  • When she finished school, she abandoned modelling (She didn't like it because they only used her image, not her head) and auditioned in Rome for the tv programme "Indietro Tutta" by Renzo Arbore: She was taken for the part of the odalisque. And that's how her television career began.
  • "I took acting and elocution lessons, to get rid of my Sicilian accent."

Awards
  • New York International Independent Film & Video Festival: Feature Film Award - Best Actress in a Dramatic Feature, A BROOKLYN STATE OF MIND (1997)
FAN SITES  
  • Maria Grazia Cucinotta
    http://www.geco.it/cucinotta/en/
    Official page for the Italian actress. Includes biographical information, credits and recipes. In Italian and English.
  • All Things Maria Grazia Cucinotta
    http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Screen/7107/
    Fanpage features biography, filmography, images, links and news.