[1] Monti was born in Genoa (Italy), but moved with her mother to Mexico, where she started to work as a model.
She was however quickly discovered for the movies and appeared in string of Mexican films during the second half of the 1960s.
Among them were the neo noir thriller Rage starring Glenn Ford and the superhero movie The Batwoman.
In the 1990s she settled with her second husband the writer José Antonio Reyes Matamoros in San Cristóbal de las Casas.
There she started to work as a teacher at a local school while pursuing painting and writing as well.