After graduating in Architecture, Stefania began a career in acting and worked with Pietro Germi, Bernardo Bertolucci, Peter Greenaway and Dario Argento. She moved to New York in the late 1970s, where she acted in Andy Warhol's 'Bad'. While in New York she decided to move behind the camera, and became a director. With Francesca Marciano, she wrote and directed the film "Lontano da dove", presented at the Venice Film Festival (1983). In 1997 she wrote and directed another feature film "Un Paradiso di Bugie". Her career as director also includes the making of six feature films for the Italian television network MEDIASET. A passionate traveler, Stefania has made a great number of documentaries and reportages for RAI and MEDIASET. She focuses her attention on contemporary topics concerning women and young people. She has made many hard-hitting series including: "Islam: stories of women"; "Latin America: stories of women"; "To be 20 years old in..." (broadcast in ten European Countries 2004-2005); "So close so far :portraits in the suburbs". "Schiaffo alla mafia"(A blow to the Mafia) Between 2000-2002 , Stefania was the Artistic Director of Siena's Film Festival "Terra di Siena". In 2010 she was Managing Director of DGTV IESTV. Currently, Stefania writes and directs programs, reportages and documentaries for RAI, and for satellite channels: RAI Sat Cinema World, Gambero Rosso Channel, and Sky. She also works as a journalist, contributing to several popular women's magazines.

Filmography

• 2026You, Me & Tuscany — Nonna Alessia
• 2025Story of a Night — Carla
• 2024Buio come il cuore
• 2024Funeral: I Don't Want You — Madre di Miriam
• 2024Nessuno come Ulisse — Director
• 2023Cactus
• 2023Good Vibes
• 2023Pooh - Un attimo ancora — Writer
• 2022The Goldsmith — Giovanna
• 2019Dafne — Maria
• 2019Diabolik Is Me — Bianca Rosselli
• 2019Searching for Valentina: The World of Guido Crepax — Producer
• 2016Cinque mondi — Producer
• 2015Le Acque Segrete di Palermo — Director
• 2015Nessuno siamo perfetti — Self, Producer
• 2014Bota — Co-Writer
• 2014Maicol Jecson — Maria
• 2012Made in Albania — Producer, Director
• 2006Un po' d'India — Director, Story, Writer
• 2002Operazione rosmarino — Portinaia
• Enchantment — Carla Ferrini
• 1997Un Paradiso di Bugie — Director, Writer
• Donna — Annamaria
• 1992Maledetto il giorno che t'ho incontrato — Clari
• 1990Fun Jump — Director, Story, Writer
• 1990I cavalieri del cross — Director, Story, Writer
• 1990Roller Wings — Director, Story, Writer
• 1990Scheggia di Vento — Director, Story, Writer
• 1990Vincere per vincere — Director, Story, Writer
• 1988Cuore in gola — Director, Screenplay
• 1987The Belly of an Architect — Flavia Speckler
• 1984Polsi sottili
• 1983Lontano da dove — Desideria, Director, Writer, Story
• 1982Mora — Christina
• 1981Habibi, amor mío
• 1981Illa - Punto d'osservazione — Illa
• Illa - Punto di osservazione — Illa Spaini
• 1980Cocktail Molotov — Anna-Maria
• 1979Ammazzare il tempo — Sara, la giornalista
• 1979Dedicated to the Aegean Sea — Gloria
• 1978Bye Bye Monkey — Feminist Actress
• 1978How to Lose a Wife and Find a Lover — Marisa - Eleonora's friend
• 1978The Bloodstained Shadow — Sandra Sellani
• 1977Bad — P.G.
• 1977Latin Male Wanted — Anna
• 1977Suspiria — Sara Simms
• 19761900 — Neve
• 1976Come ti rapisco il pupo — Rita
• 1976Geometra Prinetti, selvaggiamente Osvaldo
• 1976I prosseneti — Odile
• 1976Luna di miele in tre — Graziella Luraghi
• 1975Non si scrive sui muri a Milano — Anna
• 1975The Big Delirium — Sonia
• 1975The Climber — Luciana
• 1975The Golden Mass — Loulou
• 1974Blood for Dracula — Rubinia
• 1974Emergency Squad — Marta Hayworth
• 1974I mariti
• 1974The Cousin — Lisa Scuderi
• 1973A Way of Being a Woman — Francesca
• 1973Trevico-Turin: Voyage in Fiatnam
• 1972For Love One Dies — Tea
• Nessuno deve sapere — Maria Petrulli
• 1970A Pocketful of Chestnuts — Carla Lotito

Appearances as themselves (5)

• 2022DARIO ARGENTO - The Exhibit — Self
• 2012Ladies of Italian Horror — self
• 2009Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad — Self
• 2001Suspiria 25th Anniversary — Self
• Sanremo Music Festival — Self - Host