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

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• 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."

• New York International Independent Film & Video Festival: Feature Film Award - Best Actress in a Dramatic Feature, A BROOKLYN STATE OF MIND (1997)

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