Simonetta Stefanelli is an Italian

Italy

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 film actress. She is best known outside Italy for her role in The Godfather

The Godfather

The Godfather is a 1972 American epic crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, based on the 1969 novel by Mario Puzo. With a screenplay by Puzo, Coppola and an uncredited Robert Towne, the film stars Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Sterling Hayden, John Marley, Richard...

(1972), in which she played Apollonia Vitelli-Corleone

Apollonia Vitelli-Corleone

Apollonia Corleone is a fictional character in Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather. She is portrayed by Simonetta Stefanelli in Francis Ford Coppola's film adaptation.-In the novel:...

, Michael Corleone

Michael Corleone

Michael Corleone is a fictional character in Mario Puzo's novels, The Godfather and The Sicilian. He is also the main character of the Godfather film trilogy that was directed by Francis Ford Coppola, in which he was portrayed by Al Pacino, who was twice nominated for an Academy Award for his...

's wife. Stefanelli was only 17 at the time the movie came out (and only 16 when the filming was done in 1971) and relatively unknown.
Stefanelli also appeared in more than a dozen Italian films, sometimes in leading roles. In the 1992 movie Le Amiche del Cuore (a.k.a.