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.
