Italian Beauty: Adua Del Vesco

Stage name of Rosalinda Cannavò, an actress from Messina, Sicily.

Italian Beauty: Alessandra Mastronardi

Actress from Naples.

Italian Beauty: Michela Quattrociocche

Actress from Rome.

Italian Beauty: Violante Placido

Actress and singer born in Rome. Her father is an actor-director with roots in Basilicata and Puglia, and her mother (also an actress from Rome) is best known outside of Italy for playing Michael Corleone's Sicilian wife Apollonia in The Godfather.

Italian Beauty: Monica Bellucci

Actress and model from Città di Castello, Perugia, Umbria.

Italian Beauty: Elisabetta Canalis

Model and actress from Sassari, Sardinia. AKA George Clooney's ex-girlfriend. AKA a contestant on Dancing with the Stars.

Italian Beauty: Giovanna Mezzogiorno

What better way to kick off this series than with one of the most popular actresses in Italy right now, born in the capital city of Rome to a father from the South (near Naples) and a mother with roots in the North (Veneto).