Italian actress Stefania Sandrelli was born 5 June 1946 in Viareggio, Tuscany, and she is famous for her many roles in the commedia all’italiana from the ‘6s. She was 15 years old when she starred in the movie directed by Marcello Mastroianni, Divorzio all’Italiana.
In 1960 Sandrelli won the Miss Cinema Viareggio beauty contest, then she was the cover girl of the magazine Le Ore. Her film career was launched by Pietro Germi with Divorce, Italian Style from 1961)=; later she worked three more times with Germi, in Seduced and Abandoned(1963), L’immorale (1967) and Alfredo, Alfredo (1970).
Sandrelli became in a short time a protagonist of the commedia all’italiana, appearing, among others, in Antonio Pietrangeli‘s Io la conoscevo bene, Mario Monicelli‘s Brancaleone alle crociate and Ettore Scola‘s C’eravamo tanto amati. She also starred in several Bernardo Bertolucci‘s drama films, including The Conformist (1970) and 1900 (1976), and in several French productions.
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