Catrinel Marlon (born 1 October 1985) is a Romanian-Italian model, actress, producer and director. She is known for her participation in films like The ideal city, Tales of Tales and La Gomera, as well as television series Un passo dal cielo, CSI and Inspector Coliandro.
In her modelling career, she is known for being the lead model of the Fiat Abarth Campaign, Teller, Whirlwind Summer and El Palacio Del Hierro.
In 2022, she made her directorial debut with the short film Ossa, and the next year directed the Drama Girasole.
The same year she published an autobiography called Non Avevo Gli Occhi Azurri.
Early life
Following in the footsteps of her father, a champion in the Olympic 400-meter hurdle, Catrinel became an athlete before being discovered at the age of sixteen by a local agent during a school trip to Bucharest. After six months, she moved to the capital of Romania where she started her career as a model.[citation needed]
Career
In 2012, she had the achievement to lead the success of the Fiat Abarth campaign and appeared in a spot of the Super Bowl.[1] The same year she made a guest appearance as Elisabetta in the CBS television crime procedural series CSI.[2]
In 2017, she had a role in the Italian film The Ploy, a thriller about the death of Italian director and screenwriter Pier Paolo Passolini.[3]
In 2018, she landed the lead role of the Romanian/Spanish movie La Gomera with the Romanian star Vlad Ivanov. In this film she played the role of the femme fatale Gilda. The movie had an international premiere at the Cannes film festival of the same year.[4]
In 2020, she participated in an Italian movie based on the novel of Alexander Dumas in the role of Zingara.[5]
In 2022, she produced and wrote her own short drama film called Ossa, a drama.[6]
In 2023, she produced and directed her first film called Girasole, another drama film set in the north of Italy and with a personal story for one of her relatives.[7] The movie have premiere in the 41 Torino Film Festival. Between the 24 of November and the 2 of December.[citation needed]
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