Bond Girl Caterina Murino, 47, Is Pregnant: ‘I Am Living A Magical Moment’

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Bond Girl Caterina Murino, 47, Is Pregnant: ‘I Am Living A Magical Moment’

Italian actress Caterina Murino, known for her role in Casino Royale (2006), is expecting her first child at the age of 47. The actress shared the joyful news while opening up about her challenging journey with in-vitro fertilisation (IVF), describing it as “excruciating” following two miscarriages. After years of heartache and perseverance, Murino is now preparing to embrace motherhood alongside her partner of eight years, French lawyer Edouard Rigaud.
Speaking to French magazine Gala, the former Bond Girl said, “At my age, I had to ask medicine to help nature. You don’t always decide when the right time to become a mother comes.” Murino also revealed that she is expecting a baby boy and that she is due at the end of the summer, just before her 48th birthday in September this year. Looking forward to becoming a mother, Murino has had a smooth and healthy pregnancy so far, and she added, “I haven’t had any discomfort, no diabetes, no insomnia.”
She also expressed being anxious about her delivery.
In a previous conversation with the Italian outlet, Costa Smeralda, the actress shared, “I feel I am living a magical moment,” she said. “Soon I will become a mother, and I believe we all have a huge responsibility today: raise conscious human beings.”
Caterina Murino has been with her partner, Edouard Riguad, for over five years now. They met in 2019 and now live together in the Montmartre district of Paris. Born in Cagliari, Sardinia, Murino made her big screen debut in 2002 with Luis Sepulveda’s Nowhere. She returned to French films in 2004 with L’Enquete Corse alongside Christian Clavier and Jean Reno.
It was finally in 2006 that Murino gained global visibility as the new 007 Bond Girl opposite Daniel Craig. She was seen as the shady Solange Dimitrious in Casino Royale. At that time, the actress spoke about her appearance in the Bond film, describing it as a “tremendous” opportunity. “I was the first Bond girl in the Daniel Craig era, in a film that marked a change of mood in the saga. Today, I look back at it with gratitude and realisation: not so much for the glamour surrounding it, but for the chance it gave me to build an international career,” she told Costa Smeralda.
Among Murino’s other film credits are the British comedy St. Trinian’s, the U.S. supernatural thriller The Voice in Stone, Veneciafrenia, the Netflix family dramedy My Brother, My Sister, The Garden of Eden, and The Opera!
With an impressive acting career across Italian as well as other international films, the actress also hosted the 80th Venice International Film Festival in 2023.

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