The Night Manager’s leading lady Camila Morrone has forever been surrounded by Hollywood A-lists, having grown up in Beverly Hills.
So spotting icons like Brad Pitt in cafes was somewhat ‘normal’ for Camila in her neighbourhood, she once recalled.
Over the years the glamorous star has adopted an A-list girl squad made up of Hailey Bieber, Kaia Gerber and Suki Waterhouse, all of whom she calls her ‘besties’.
The actress, 28, is the daughter of Argentinian actors Maximo Morrone and Lucila Polak in 1997, who performs under the stage name Lucila Solá.
Her parents divorced in 2006, with Lucila soon embarking on a four-year relationship with Hollywood legend Al Pacino, who Camila refers to as her stepfather to this day.
Aside from her famous family connection, Camila is best known as the ex-love of movie star Leonardo DiCaprio, 51.
The Night Manager’s leading lady Camila Morrone, 28, has forever been surrounded by Hollywood A-lists, having grown up in Beverly Hills (pictured in the BBC drama)
The actress is best known as the ex-love of movie star Leonardo DiCaprio, 51, whom split after four years together in 2022 (pictured in 2018)
The former lovebirds were together for four years before calling it quits in 2022 – just two months after she turned 25.
But Camila says she has fought hard to get to the place she is now.
Reflecting on her past decade, Camila said she feels ‘really proud’ of where she has come, adding it ‘wasn’t her reality ten years ago’.
Despite attending LA’s prestigious Beverly Hills High School, Camila said she watched her parents struggle to put food on the table which nearly made her avoid a career in acting entirely.
She told the Los Angeles Times: ‘I saw them struggle their whole lives to be financially independent actors, and seeing them go through that, I was kind of turned off to it.
‘There was so much angst around acting, and it was such a topic of conversation — never knowing where your next paycheck is going to come from. I thought: “I’m going to go to college. I’m going to have a normal 9-to-5 job.”
‘And of course, I ended up exactly like them.’
Camila would subsequently bag a role in BBC drama The Night Manager after a decade of flitting between acting and modelling.
Over the years the glamorous star has adopted an A-list girl squad made up of Hailey Bieber (pictured in 2022), Kaia Gerber and Suki Waterhouse, all of whom she calls her ‘besties’
Camila struck up a friendship with actress Suki after starring in Daisy Jones & The Six together and have become inseparable since (pictured together)
She also spent las summer chasing sunsets with model Kaia, which Camila plastered across her Instagram
Her highly publicised romance with Leonardo has made Camila want to prove herself as an actress more than ever.
‘When you’re an actor people will always find things about your personal life,’ Camila said in an interview with The Times.
‘Perhaps with projects that will change, but it’s something that comes with the territory. Having grown up in Hollywood, I was around it. I was around celebrities. It’s normal [for people] living in LA to see Brad Pitt at the coffee shop, you know?’
At the time, a source told E! News that distance played a major role in their split, citing the pair’s demanding travel schedules and career commitments.
Another insider told The Sun that there were ‘no bad feelings between them,’ adding that the relationship had simply ‘came to a natural conclusion.’
Camila, who is 23 years younger than Leonardo, was first introduced to the actor in 2008 when she was just 12 years old, through Al – a longtime friend of Leonardo’s.
The Revenant star reportedly remained close with Camila’s family for years before their romantic relationship began a decade later.
Camila got her start as a model, and transitioned into an acting career; her first film role was in 2013 in the project Bukowski.
Speaking about her friendship group, Camila said: ‘I love my girls. Suki Waterhouse is one of my best friends and we became like sisters’ (pictured with Suki in 2023)
She added: ‘But it’s hard to keep up with these women who have these grand lives. Suki’s on tour, Kaia’s doing multiple projects, Hailey Bieber is, you know, raising a family and a multibillion-dollar business’ (pictured with Hailey last summer)
Camila, daughter of Argentinian actors Maximo Morrone and Lucila Polak who divorced, calls Al Pacino her ‘stepfather’ after he struck up a romance with her mother (pictured in 2014)
Her biggest role to date was the role of Camila Dunne in the series Daisy Jones & The Six, a series that aired on Amazon Prime.
It was where she struck up a friendship with actress Suki, both of whom have become inseparable and even attended Adele’s birthday together.
Rhode founder Hailey is another A-list in Camila’s circle.
The girlfriends spent last summer travelling at sea on a yacht with model Kaia, which Camila plastered across her Instagram with sunset pictures.
Speaking about her friendship group, Camila said: ‘I love my girls. Suki Waterhouse is one of my best friends and we became like sisters.
‘But it’s hard to keep up with these women who have these grand lives. Suki’s on tour, Kaia’s doing multiple projects, Hailey Bieber is, you know, raising a family and a multibillion-dollar business.’
Thanks to her star-studded contacts list, Camila knew the director of The Night Manager and reached out to beg for the role.
She said: ‘I do that with no shame. I will harass a director via email and send a love story about what I feel about a character.
The show, starring Tom Hiddleston and Diego Calva (pictured), was an instant hit following its initial release in 2016
Camila has filled the shoes previously worn by Elizabeth Debicki, who played leading man Tom’s love interest before winning her role as Diana, Princess of Wales in The Crown
The actress is now in a relationship with Cole Bennett, 29, who is rumoured to have a huge net worth due to his highly successful career as a music video director and record executive
‘When I knew they were casting season two, I asked if there were any female roles and they were reading women a little older than me in their mid-thirties.
‘When I heard they were looking for a Latin character I was like, you guys, come on, this is written for me!’
The show, starring Tom Hiddleston and adapted from the late John Le Carré’s 1993 novel, was an instant hit following its initial release in 2016.
Camila has filled the shoes previously worn by Elizabeth Debicki, who played leading man Tom’s love interest before winning her role as Diana, Princess of Wales in The Crown.
The actress is now in a relationship with Cole Bennett, 29, who is rumoured to have a huge net worth due to his highly successful career as a music video director and record executive.
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