In 2023, she hosted the 80th Venice International Film Festival from 30 August to 9 September. In 2013, she starred as Penelope, Ulysses' wife for a TV production Odysseus. She also starred in the video clip of the famous party band The Gypsy Queens' ' l'Italiano'. In 2011, she also appeared in Bob Sinclar's music video clip Far l'amore. In early 2011, she co-starred with Rufus Sewell in the short-lived BBC One TV series Zen.
She began her career in television in 2002, and then gained international fame after playing Solange Dimitrios in the 2006 adaptation of the James Bond novel Casino Royale. She then appeared in stage productions of Richard III and Italian-language plays. She studied drama at the Scuola di Cinema e Teatro run by Francesca De Sapio, between 19. She finished fifth in the 1997 Miss Italy contest. Murino was born in Cagliari, Sardinia, and initially wanted to be a doctor. She went on to appear in the 2006 film Casino Royale and received a European Golden Globe at the 2008 Italian Golden Globe Awards. She began her acting career in the 1999 production of the play Richard III and later made her breakthrough with the 2004 film The Corsican File. Directed by Martin Campbell from a screenplay by Neil Purvis, Robert Wade, and Paul Haggis, it stars Daniel Craig in his first appearance as Bond, alongside Eva Green, Mads.
Caterina Murino (born 15 September 1977) is an Italian actress. Casino Royale is a 2006 spy film, the twenty-first in the Eon Productions James Bond series, and the third screen adaptation of Ian Fleming's 1953 novel of the same name.
