Simonetta Stefanelli
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Simonetta Stefanelli (November 30, 1954 - July 23, 2006) was an Italian actress who was born in Rome, Italy. Stefanelli is best known outside Italy for her role in The Godfather (1972), in which she plays Apollonia Vitelli-Corleone, Michael Corleone's (played by Al Pacino) wife for a short while before she is killed by a car bomb intended for Michael.
She also appeared in more than a dozen Italian films, sometimes in leading roles. In her last film, the 1992 movie Le Amiche del Cuore (a.k.a. Close Friends), she plays the character Giuliana.
Stefanelli was married to the actor/director Michele Placido; they divorced in 1994.
