Her father was Maltese, and her mother was an Italian from
Tunisia.
In the mid-1990s she was engaged to famous Italian industrialist Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, who was president of Ferrari, chief of the
organization of the 1990 Football World Cup in Italy and, since May
2004, president of the FIAT Group.
Began her career as a photo model.
She has an entry in Jean Tulard's Dictionnaire du Cinéma/Les Acteurs, published in Paris in 2007 (page 47).