On Instagram, Evelina Maria Corcos spells her own surname with a zero in place of the O. The account, @corc0s, has around 6,900 followers and a bio that reads: “Costumes & multimedia art.” Her mother is Debi Mazar. Her father is Gabriele Corcos, an Italian chef who played drums in Morocco before any of that. Both surnames appear on her New York modelling agency profile, but her Instagram uses only one.
Evelina Maria Corcos was born on July 12, 2002, in California. She is 23 years old and the eldest daughter of actress Debi Mazar and Italian chef and television personality Gabriele Corcos. She grew up between Brooklyn and Tuscany, appeared as a child in her parents’ Cooking Channel series Extra Virgin, and has been based in Milan for several years, where she works in costume and wardrobe.
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Her Parents: From Queens and Fiesole to Brooklyn
Gabriele Corcos was born on October 7, 1972, in Fiesole, a hilltop town just north of Florence, into a family of Sephardic Jewish descent. After finishing high school, he enrolled in the Italian Army and studied medicine at a military academy for several years before leaving to pursue music. He travelled to Brazil, Cuba, and Morocco studying drums and performing with local musicians. In 2001, he met Debi Mazar in Florence and moved to the United States.
Debi Mazar was born on August 13, 1964, in Jamaica, Queens, New York. Her father, Harry Mazar, born Harija Fogelmanis, came from a Jewish family in German-occupied Latvia, a fact Mazar did not learn until her twenties. As a teenager she sold jewellery at Fiorucci, worked as a dental assistant, and ended up at Danceteria, the downtown Manhattan club where she met Madonna. Madonna hired her to do makeup for the “Everybody” music video. From there she built a career that spans Goodfellas (1990), Entourage on HBO, Younger on TV Land, and most recently Kaos on Netflix.
Debi and Gabriele married on March 16, 2002, in a ceremony officiated by actress Ellen Burstyn. Mazar later told People magazine that they were married, pregnant, had bought a house, and had a baby all within the same year. Their younger daughter, Giulia Isabel Corcos, was born in 2006.
The family moved to Brooklyn in 2009 and opened a restaurant, Tuscan Gun, in Windsor Terrace. They also maintained a historic villa in Fiesole, a property Gabriele’s family gave them as a wedding gift. During the COVID-19 years, the family relocated full-time to Italy. In a 2022 interview with People, Mazar called it the best decision they had made, noting that Evelina was by then travelling independently to cities including Madrid, Barcelona, and Israel.
In June 2019, the Italian President honoured Gabriele as a Knight of the Italian Republic for his work promoting Italian heritage in the United States.
Childhood on the Cooking Channel: Extra Virgin
Extra Virgin launched on the Cooking Channel on January 19, 2011, the network’s first original production. It began as a single YouTube video the couple made at home, filming themselves cook spaghetti sauce. The fan response led to a blog, then a web series, then the Cooking Channel came calling when the network launched in May 2010. The Boston Globe called Debi and Gabriele the Cooking Channel’s “first family.” The show ran until 2015, earned a James Beard Award, and was followed by a road-trip spin-off, Extra Virgin Americana, across eight episodes in 2016.
Evelina appeared in the series across its run, including the episode “Mozzarella and Magic” in 2011, when she was eight years old, and “All About the Girls” in 2014, at eleven.
What Evelina Corcos Does Now
Evelina is signed with Click Model Management NYC, based on West 27th Street in Manhattan. Her agency profile lists her as Evelina Mazar Corcos, standing 5’6″. She has attended major fashion weeks with her mother, including the Chloรฉ Fall/Winter 2023 show at Paris Fashion Week in March 2023 and the JW Anderson Spring/Summer 2024 show at Milan Men’s Fashion Week in June 2023.
Modelling is not, however, her primary work. Her costume and wardrobe credits include Emily in Paris and the Madonna: The Celebration Tour in Rio documentary (2024). That last credit carries context. Her mother and Madonna have been close since the early 1980s, a friendship that has lasted more than four decades and has carried across generations. In 2021, Mazar posted a photograph of Evelina and Giulia alongside Rocco Ritchie, Madonna’s son, captioned with their three names and the Italian flag emoji.
The Maripol x Khrisjoy Campaign, February 2025
In February 2025, Evelina appeared in the Maripol x Khrisjoy campaign across the walls of the Montenapoleone metro station in Milan. The campaign, titled “Donna di Milano: The Spirit of a Town Through the Faces of 30 Women Living in Milan,” featured 30 women of different backgrounds, professions, ages, and identities across the city.
Khrisjoy is a Milan-based Italian luxury outerwear brand, founded in 2017. The photographer was Maripol, a French-American artist who documented the 1980s New York scene with a Polaroid camera, styled Madonna’s “Like a Virgin” look, and photographed Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, and Debbie Harry. She also produced the Basquiat film Downtown 81 and has been widely described as the gatekeeper of 1980s club culture. She photographed Debi Mazar throughout that same era.
On February 19, 2025, Mazar posted photographs from the Milan metro and wrote:
“The baton has been passed. Maripol, my dear friend photographed me and our collective friends all through the 1980s and now she’s just shot my daughter for this cool campaign, which is plastered all over the subways of Milano! Proud Mamma! Go EVELINA!!”
Evelina was one of 30 women in the campaign. She was not the lead or the sole subject. She was one of the city’s women.
The Name She Actually Uses
Most of the coverage that exists around Evelina Corcos is generated by other people. Her mother posts the photographs. Publications write up the posts. Evelina has not given interviews.
Her modelling agency profile carries both surnames side by side. Her Instagram carries only Corcos, spelled with a zero. The bio says costumes and multimedia art and links out to a personal website. There is no reference to Goodfellas, Entourage, or the James Beard Award anywhere in it.
At 23, Evelina Maria Corcos is working in costume and wardrobe, modelling when she chooses, and living in Milan. The network surrounding her is largely her mother’s. The name she leads with is her father’s. What she is building with both of those facts is, so far, her own business.
