
She is perhaps best known to American audiences for her role as Persephone in the 2003 science-fiction films
The Matrix Reloaded and
The Matrix Revolutions. She also played the Bride of Dracula in Francis Ford Coppola's gothic romance film
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) and Malèna Scordia in the Italian-language romantic drama
Malèna (2000), and was in the controversial Gaspar Noé arthouse horror film
Irréversible (2002), and Mel Gibson's biblical drama
The Passion of the Christ (2004), in which she portrayed Mary Magdalene. She later played a Bond girl in the 2015 James Bond film
Spectre.