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# Stefania Sandrelli

Actor. Born 5 June 1946 in Viareggio, Toscana, Italy.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 5 June 1946, Viareggio, Toscana, Italy
- **Also known as:** 스테파니아 산드렐리, Стефания Сандрелли, استفانیا ساندrelli

## Fi1m on Stefania Sandrelli

> Stefania Sandrelli can make a character interesting without seeming to press for our attention. We value her unforced acting, especially in *The Conformist*, where she makes us want more time with Giulia than the film allows.

In *The Conformist* (1970), Stefania Sandrelli’s Giulia seems comfortable in herself beside a man painfully concerned with how he is seen. Sandrelli does not make that ease look like an achievement. We warmed to Giulia because her lack of self-consciousness offered relief from the film’s scrutiny of Marcello. She gives us someone to be interested in beyond his fears and desires.

Her early work in Pietro Germi’s *Divorce Italian Style* (1961) established her in Italian comedy alongside Marcello Mastroianni. In *I Knew Her Well* (1965), she took the lead as Adriana Astarelli, a starlet making her way in Rome. Her earliest performances also attracted criticism for inexpressivity, a reservation worth keeping in mind when praising her restraint. Small gestures and slight changes of expression are central to her acting, but they still need to tell us something.

The 1970s brought work with Bernardo Bertolucci and Ettore Scola, including Scola’s *We All Loved Each Other So Much* (1974). In Bertolucci’s *The Conformist*, Sandrelli’s ease is particularly useful amid Vittorio Storaro’s seductive images and the attention paid to Marcello’s inner troubles. Beside her, Dominique Sanda makes Anna Quadri harder to read. Both give us reasons to care about women whom the writing too often treats as explanations for Marcello’s sexuality.

The erotic roles of the 1980s, including *The Key* (1983), made the danger of typecasting more evident. What interests us less is casting that assumes her sensuality will be enough. Later supporting work included *The Last Kiss* (2001), while Paolo Sorrentino’s *Parthenope* (2024) cast her as the older Parthenope. Those changes in the size and nature of her parts matter when considering an actor so readily associated with youthful sensuality. For a first encounter, we would choose *The Conformist*, with the caveat that its interest in Giulia falls short of ours.

## Biography

Stefania Sandrelli is an Italian actress. She was born on 5 June 1946 in Viareggio, Italy. She began her career in the early 1960s after winning a beauty contest and made her film debut in 1961.

Sandrelli rose to prominence with roles in Pietro Germi’s *Divorce Italian Style* (1961) and *Seduced and Abandoned* (1964). She is known for performances in Bernardo Bertolucci’s *The Conformist* (1970), in which she played Giulia, and *1900* (1976), as well as Ettore Scola’s *We All Loved Each Other So Much* (1974). She has received awards including a Nastro d’Argento and a David di Donatello, and was awarded the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the Venice Film Festival in 2005.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Conformist* (1971), Fi1m 87, as Giulia — [page](https://film.one/film/the-conformist.md)

## Also known for

- *Parthenope* (2024), Parthenope (old)
- *There's No Place Like Home* (2018), Alba
- *1900* (1976), Anita Foschi
- *We All Loved Each Other So Much* (1974), Luciana Zanon
- *Stealing Beauty* (1996), Noemi
- *Divorce Italian Style* (1961), Angela
- *The Last Kiss* (2001), Anna
- *The First Beautiful Thing* (2010), Anna Nigiotti in Michelucci 2009

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