


In the meantime, she'd also received an offer to test for the big budget horror movie Rings (2017). Several months later, Muccino auditioned her for a movie called Summertime (2016). She worked in an Italian restaurant to support herself and met Italian director Gabriele Muccino there, when he came in for dinner. She dropped out of the Catholic University of Milan and was accepted into a major movie school in Los Angeles. It wasn't until she traveled to Los Angeles in 2014 to audition for an HBO pilot that she realized she could truly make her dream come true. "If you say you're an actor in Italy, they kind of laugh in your face - it's like it's not a job," she told Elle Canada in 2016. She also studied psychology at the Catholic University of Milan as a backup plan. She then won a role on the TV series Crossing Lines (2013), followed by a part in the Italian drama The Fifth Wheel (2013). She began attending auditions and landed a role in the Italian horror flick "Azzurrina" in 2012. After she graduated from high school in New York, she took an acting class in order to get over her shyness. Blessed with movie star good looks, Matilda began working as a model at a very young age, for various fashion and beauty brands. Her American father, Elliston, became a famed fashion photographer, while her mother, Maria, went on to do PR for a fashion press office. Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz was born in Milan, Italy to two former fashion models and until the age of five, grew up in the little country town of Gudo Visconti.
