Caterina Murino

Caterina Murino is an Italian actress who trained at the Scuola di Cinema e Teatro, a drama school led by Francesca De Sapio, and started out on stage in a 1999 production of Richard III. She was cast by director Dino Risi in the 2002 television film Le ragazze di Miss Italia. Her first feature followed that same year, Nowhere, directed by the Chilean writer and filmmaker Luis Sepúlveda, and it drew favorable notices in France. In 2004 she broke through with The Corsican File. She played Solange Dimitrios in Casino Royale (2006), the James Bond adaptation that brought her international fame. Later roles included the BBC One series Zen in 2011, a part in Bob Sinclar's Far l'amore music video, and Penelope in a 2013 television production of Odysseus. In 2023 she was the host of the 80th Venice International Film Festival, and collected the European Golden Globe at the Italian Golden Globe Awards in 2008.