- Born
- Height5′ 9″ (1.75 m)
- Caterina Murino was born on September 15, 1977, in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy. In 1996 she took fourth place in the Miss Italy contest. Then she moved to Milan, where she began working as a model in commercials for MasterCard, Swatch, Mercedes-Benz and Nescafe, among other gigs. From 1999-2000 she studied acting at the Scuola di Cinema e Teatro di Francesca de Sapio in Italy.
In 1999 she made her acting debut in a stage production of "Richard III" and appeared in several Italian-language plays. In 2002 she began her film and television career with bit parts in Italian, German and French productions. Her breakthrough came in 2004, when she co-starred opposite Jean Reno in the French comedy The Corsican File (2004).
She is trilingual, speaking French, English and Italian. She is a versatile actress and a good athlete. Her talents include singing, dancing tango, flamenco and oriental dances, as well as horseback riding. She co-starred as Solange, one of three Bond girls, opposite Daniel Craig in Casino Royale (2006).- IMDb Mini Biography By: Steve Shelokhonov (qv's & corrections by A. Nonymous)
- ChildrenNo Children
- Reached fourth place in Miss Italy contest.
- She learned French in 4 months to play Jean Reno's sister in a French film.
- Murino was having a leg pain while filming the iconic horse riding scene in Casino Royale. Director Martin Campbell considered having a stunt performer to do it, but she refused a body double and performed the sequence herself.
- The day before Murino was scheduled to take an audition for the role in Casino Royale, she broke her rib in a horse riding accident. Yet she went ahead and gave the audition barely able to walk. She got a call back for next audition with the director Martin Campbell. This time being in a better health she ended up winning the role.
- I do have ambition--I can dress up for a premiere, 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.
- I have a dream of re-creating the fantastic family I grew up in with my brother and my parents. I am lucky that I have such a good image of family life - my father and mother are still in love, still happy.
- Modelling was not very satisfying for me. I came to London to model, and I fell in love with the theatre. I was eating yogurt every day so that I had the money to go to the theatre. I saw everything. It's still my dream to be on stage in London.
- My favorite animal is the koala, but his life would be boring. I would rather be a giraffe so that I could contemplate the beauty of Africa.
- Back in Rome I did some acting lessons and I realized I loved it more than anything else I had ever done before.
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