Stefania Sandrelli (born 5 June 1946) is an Italian actress, famous for her many roles in the "Italian-style comedy" (commedia all'italiana), starting from the 1960s. She was 14 years old when she starred in Divorce Italian Style as Angela, the cousin and love interest of Ferdinando, played by Marcello Mastroianni.
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Early life
Sandrelli was born in Viareggio, Tuscany, into a middle-class family, the daughter of Florida and Otello Sandrelli (who died when she was eight years old), owners of a pension in Viareggio.
As a girl, Sandrelli studied ballet and learned to play the accordion. Sandrelli had a brother, Sergio, seven years older, who had a successful music career and died in 2013.
Career
She debuted in cinema at the age of 15 in Mario Sequi's film Gioventù di notte. In 1960, Sandrelli won the Miss Cinema Viareggio beauty contest, then was the cover girl of the magazine Le Ore, and had `her first opportunities to make films, appearing, among others, in Luciano Salce's The Fascist. Her film career was launched by Pietro Germi with Divorce Italian Style (1961); later, she worked three more times with Germi, in Seduced and Abandoned (1964), The Climax (1967), and Alfredo, Alfredo (1970).