Bellamacina played Cleo Watson in Michael Winterbottom's 2022 six-part political TV drama This England. She played the lead character Irene in both of the acclaimed, avant-garde Italian film director Riccardo Vannuccini’s films, Commedia (2023) and Things And Other Things (2024) which were both filmed in Italy. Her performance in Commedia won her the Stanley Kubrick Award for Best Actress.[8] Her role as Cecily in All Five Eyes (set to shoot in August 2024) will see her perform alongside Honor Swinton Byrne as sisters.[9][10]
Poetry
Bellamacina was shortlisted as Young Poet Laureate of London in 2014.[11]
In 2016, Bellamacina and artist Robert Montgomery co-founded New River Press.[12][13] In 2016 Bellamacina co-wrote a collection of collaborative poetry with Montgomery entitled Points for Time in the Sky, a psychogeographical journey through modern Britain, and a rare example of collaborative poetry in British literature.[14]
In 2018, she was commissioned by the National Poetry Library to write a group of poems for their Odyssey series, modern mediations on Homer's Odyssey.[15] In the same year, she published her collection,Selected Poems 2015–2017. Pierpaolo Piccioli commissioned Bellamacina to write ten love poems to coincide with his FW19 collection for Valentino fashion house.[16][17]
Bellamacina's poetry collection Tomorrow's Woman was published in 2020 by US publisher Andrews McMeel Publishing alongside a volume of feminist poetry she edited titled Smear.[18] In the same year the collection was translated into Spanish and published by Valparaíso Ediciones with translations by poet Juan José Vélez Otero.[19] The collection was launched at the Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris.[20]
In 2022, Bellamacina won the Stanley Kubrick Award for Best Actress at the Stanley Film Awards for her performance in Riccardo Vannuccini's film Commedia.[8]