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name: "Maria Grazia Cucinotta"
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roles: ["Actor"]
born: "27 July 1968"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 73
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-18T07:38:49.953922+00:00"
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# Maria Grazia Cucinotta

Actor. Born 27 July 1968 in Messina, Sicily, Italy.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 27 July 1968, Messina, Sicily, Italy
- **Active:** 1989–1999
- **Also known as:** ماریا گراتزیا کوچی, 玛丽亚·格拉齐亚·库西诺塔, 玛莉亚·嘉西亚·古欣娜塔 , 玛莉亚·格拉琪亚·古奇诺塔
- **Average Fi1m score:** 73, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 88 (1), 1990s 58 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Grazia_Cucinotta, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q234775, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002029/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/10777

## Biography

Maria Grazia Cucinotta is an Italian actress. She was born on 27 July 1968 in Messina, Sicily. She began appearing in films and on television in 1990.

She is known for her role as Beatrice Russo in *The Postman* (1994) and as the Cigar Girl in the James Bond film *The World Is Not Enough* (1999). Other credits include *The Day of the Beast* (1995), *The Graduates* (1995), *The Sopranos* (1999) and *The Rite* (2011). She has also worked as a producer and model.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *The World Is Not Enough* (1999), Fi1m 58, as Cigar Girl — [page](https://film.one/film/the-world-is-not-enough.md)
- *The Simpsons* (1989), Fi1m 88, as Francesca (voice) — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-simpsons.md)

## Complete filmography (93)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Make a Wish* (2025), as Elena
- *Poveri Noi* (2025), as Rosa Crocetti
- *La nostra Raffaella* (2024), Acting
- *Gli agnelli possono pascolare in pace* (2024), Acting
- *Il meglio di te* (2023), Acting
- *Goffredo e l'Italia chiamò* (2023), as Marchesa Adelaide
- *Wonderwell* (2023), as Anna's Mother
- *Brividi d'autore* (2023), as Louiselle
- *Il mio amico Massimo* (2022), as Sé stessa
- *Questa notte parlami dell'Africa* (2022), as Madre di Emma
- *Untitled* (2022), Producer
- *Santa Guerra* (2022), Acting
- *The old man and the little girl* (2022), as La nonna
- *The Best Years* (2022), as Adele
- *Other Fathers* (2021), Acting
- *American Night* (2021), as Donna Maria
- *Sacrificio disumano* (2021), as Maria
- *Lampadino e Caramella nel MagiRegno degli Zampa* (2020), series, as Cucicogna (voice)
- *Forse è solo mal di mare* (2019), as Claudia
- *Tutto Liscio* (2019), Acting
- *The Cat & the Moon* (2019), as Sonia
- *Shadow of the Wolf* (2018), as Eleonora
- *Into the Rainbow* (2017), as Dr. Julia Bianchi
- *Le verità* (2017), Acting
- *C'è sempre un perchè* (2016), as Maria
- *C’è sempre un perché* (2016), Acting
- *Babbo Natale non viene da Nord* (2015), as Psicologa
- *Magic Card* (2015), as Maria
- *Donkey Flies* (2015), Acting
- *Nomi e cognomi* (2015), as Anna Riva
- *Road to Capri* (2015), as Julia
- *Ma tu di che segno 6?* (2014), Producer
- *Cam Girl* (2014), as Direttrice agenzia
- *The Tailor's Wife* (2014), as Rosetta
- *Maldamore* (2014), as Zia
- *Hostias (Un amor de película)* (2012), as Laura, Producer
- *Tulpa - Demon of Desire* (2012), Producer
- *Teresa Manganiello: sui passi dell'amore* (2012), as Fabrizia Gregorini
- *La tana del bianconiglio* (2012), as Nadia
- *Transgression* (2011), as Elena
- *The Rite* (2011), as Aunt Andria
- *Un giorno della vita* (2011), as Amelia
- *The Opening* (2011), as Maria
- *Dopo quella notte* (2010), as Psicanalista
- *L'imbroglio nel lenzuolo* (2010), Marianna, Writer, Producer
- *The Museum Of Wonders* (2010), as Memè
- *Death of the Virgin* (2009), as Claudia
- *The Purple Sea* (2009), as Agnese, Producer
- *Black Flowers* (2009), as Martha
- *La bella società* (2009), as Maria
- *Io non ci casco* (2008), as Dottoressa Rosa
- *VIP* (2008), as Principessa - Nancy Scalera di Mondragone
- *Onde corte* (2008), as Rebecca
- *Sweet Sweet Marja* (2007), as Katia
- *Last Minute Marocco* (2007), as Valeria
- *Pompeii* (2007), series, as Lavinia
- *Uranya* (2006), as Uranya
- *All the Invisible Children* (2006), as Bartender (segment "Ciro"), Producer
- *Sensualità a corte* (2005), series, as Dottoressa Cucinetti
- *Miracolo a Palermo!* (2005), as Sara
- *Our Italian Husband* (2004), as Maria Scocozza
- *Vaniglia e cioccolato* (2004), as Penelope
- *Inferno Below* (2003), series, as Santina
- *The Friends of Jesus: Thomas* (2001), as Maria Magdalena
- *Stregati dalla luna* (2001), as Miria
- *Just One Night* (2000), as Aurora
- *Picking Up the Pieces* (2000), as Desi
- *Mary Magdalene* (2000), as Maria Maddalena
- *The World Is Not Enough* (1999), as Cigar Girl — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/the-world-is-not-enough.md)
- *Ballad of the Nightingale* (1999), as Alina
- *The Sopranos* (1999), series, as Isabella — Fi1m 94, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-sopranos.md)
- *The Second Wife* (1998), as Anna
- *A Brooklyn State of Mind* (1998), as Gabriela
- *The Fourth King* (1997), as Izhira
- *Solomon* (1997), as Abisag
- *Solomon* (1997), series, as Abishag
- *Il decisionista* (1997), Acting
- *The Mayor* (1997), as Rituccia
- *Camere da letto* (1997), as Maddalena
- *Sicily* (1997), as Woman
- *La signora della città* (1996), as Rosa Minniti
- *Italiani* (1996), as Maria / Donatella
- *The Graduates* (1995), as Letizia Noferini
- *The Day of the Beast* (1995), as Susana
- *The Postman* (1994), as Beatrice Russo
- *Suntanned: One Year Later* (1993), as Inserviente hotel
- *High Risk* (1993), as Olga
- *Cominciò tutto per caso* (1993), Acting
- *Christmas Vacation '90* (1990), as Arabella
- *Journey of Love* (1990), Acting
- *The Simpsons* (1989), series, as Francesca (voice) — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-simpsons.md)
- *Indietro tutta!* (1987), series, as Guardiana
- *Malalingua*, Acting

## Gallery

- ![Maria Grazia Cucinotta](https://film.one/media/person/390921/gallery-2575b219502b.jpg) Maria Grazia Cucinotta — nicolas genin from Paris, France, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/2009_Maria_Grazia_Cucinotta_-_66%C3%A8me_Festival_de_Venise_%28Mostra%29_%2859%29_%28sq_cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Maria Grazia Cucinotta at the closing ceremony of the 2009 Venice Film Festival](https://film.one/media/person/390921/gallery-fcdf944d7c62.jpg) Maria Grazia Cucinotta at the closing ceremony of the 2009 Venice Film Festival — nicolas genin from Paris, France, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Maria_Grazia_Cucinotta_-_nicogenin_-_66%C3%A8me_Festival_de_Venise_%28Mostra%29.jpg/1280px-Maria_Grazia_Cucinotta_-_nicogenin_-_66%C3%A8me_Festival_de_Venise_%28Mostra%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![66ème Festival du Cinéma de Venise (Mostra), 10ème jour (11/09/2009) Tapis rouge avec Maria Grazia Cucinotta and Isabelle Adriani.](https://film.one/media/person/390921/gallery-77c320bb2142.jpg) 66ème Festival du Cinéma de Venise (Mostra), 10ème jour (11/09/2009) Tapis rouge avec Maria Grazia Cucinotta and Isabelle Adriani. — nicolas genin from Paris, France, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flickr_-_nicogenin_-_66%C3%A8me_Festival_de_Venise_%28Mostra%29_%2859%29.jpg/1280px-Flickr_-_nicogenin_-_66%C3%A8me_Festival_de_Venise_%28Mostra%29_%2859%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Maria Grazia Cucinotta on the 'magenta carpet' at Life Ball 2013 at the square in front of the city hall of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.](https://film.one/media/person/390921/gallery-4dfa4bd11ad5.jpg) Maria Grazia Cucinotta on the 'magenta carpet' at Life Ball 2013 at the square in front of the city hall of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. — Manfred Werner (Tsui), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Life_Ball_2013_-_magenta_carpet_Maria_Grazia_Cucinotta_01.jpg/1280px-Life_Ball_2013_-_magenta_carpet_Maria_Grazia_Cucinotta_01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Maria Grazia Cucinotta](https://film.one/media/person/390921/gallery-1eae3fd975b2.jpg) Maria Grazia Cucinotta — Image via TMDB
- ![Maria Grazia Cucinotta](https://film.one/media/person/390921/gallery-c13206bf1be7.jpg) Maria Grazia Cucinotta — Image via TMDB
- ![Maria Grazia Cucinotta](https://film.one/media/person/390921/gallery-407442cdde7e.jpg) Maria Grazia Cucinotta — Image via TMDB
- ![Maria Grazia Cucinotta on the 'magenta carpet' at Life Ball 2013 at the square in front of the city hall of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.](https://film.one/media/person/390921/gallery-b1b94df5681f.jpg) Maria Grazia Cucinotta on the 'magenta carpet' at Life Ball 2013 at the square in front of the city hall of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. — Manfred Werner (Tsui), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Life_Ball_2013_-_magenta_carpet_Maria_Grazia_Cucinotta_03.jpg/1280px-Life_Ball_2013_-_magenta_carpet_Maria_Grazia_Cucinotta_03.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Maria Grazia Cucinotta](https://film.one/media/person/390921/gallery-dcaa9b0cd3b5.jpg) Maria Grazia Cucinotta — Image via TMDB

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