# Catrinel Marlon

Catrinel Marlon (born 1985) is a Romanian-Italian actress, model, 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.

## Childhood

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.

## 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. The same year she made a guest appearance as Elisabetta in the CBS television crime procedural series CSI.
In 2015 she participated in the English-Italian fantasy/horror film Tale of Tales alongside Salma Hayek, John C. Reilly and Toby Jones.
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.
In 2018 she landed the lead role of the Romanian/Spanish movie The 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.
In 2020 she participated in an Italian movie based on the novel of Alexander Dumas in the role of Zingara.
In 2022 she produced and wrote her own short drama film called Ossa, a drama.
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. The movie have premiere in the 41 Torino Film Festival. Between the 24 of November and the 2 of December.

## Filmography
### Films

| Year | Name | Director | Character |
| 2012 | The ideal City | Luigi Lo Cascio | Alexandra |
| 2012 | Tutti Il Rumore Dil Mare | Federico Brugia | Alyena |
| 2014 | Leone nel Basilico | Leone Pompucci | Julieta |
| 2014 | Three Touches | Marco Rissi | Catrinel |
| 2015 | Tales of Tales | Mateo Garrone | Maid of Honor |
| 2015 | The error | Brando De Sica | Catrinel |
| 2016 | Them Who? | Fabbio Boneffaci | Ellen |
| 2018 | The Ploy | David Grieco | n/a |
| 2019 | La Gomera | Comeliu Porerumbu | Gilda |
| 2020 | Tutti per 1- Uno per Tutti | Giovanni Veronessi | Zingara |
| 2022 | Ossa | Catrinel Marlon | n/a |
| 2023 | Girasoli | Catrinel Marlon | n/a |

### Tv series

| Year | Name | Director | Character |
| 2012 | Un Passo Dal Cielo | Rccardo Dona | Anya |
| 2013–2014 | CSI | Brad Tanenbaum | Elissabettaa |
| 2016 | Donne | Emmanuele Imbucci | Ines |
| 2017–2018 | The Red Door | Carmine Elia | Helke |
| 2018 | Inspector Colliandro | Antonio Manetti/ Marcos Manetti | Ambra |

## Book

* Non Avevo Gli Ochii Azurri ( Newton Compton Editori ,2021)