So Italian, indeed, that even the story of her first audition has her wiping tears of passion from her huge brown eyes. Caterina is Tania Biacas, the love interest of the cult Italian detective, played by Rufus Sewell, and she is – apart from the locations used in the films – probably the only truly Italian thing in the series. The ex-model and former Bond girl (she played Solange in Casino Royale) is here to talk about her role in three feature-length TV adaptations of Michael Dibdin’s Aurelio Zen novels. Ten minutes after her arrival at the YOU photo shoot – espresso in one hand, BlackBerry in the other – she has taken control of the studio in a way that is just a little intimidating. The 33-year-old Italian-born actress has so much natural glamour that even after a tiring Eurostar journey from Paris – bare of make-up and dressed in jeans – she gives the industrial North London setting a touch of la dolce vita. 'I can dress up for a premiere, get in a limousine, but I have to live a real life too,' says CaterinaĬaterina Murino looks madly out of place pulling her suitcase down a shabby street a stone’s throw from St Pancras station.
