Anna Maria Materzanini was born on 10 August 1936 in
Rome. She made her on-screen debut at six years of age in the 1942 film
La morte civile, directed by
Ferdinando Maria Poggioli, playing the young Ada. Sandri returned to the screen in 1952 in
Raffaello Matarazzo's
melodrama Chi è senza peccato... (1952). Her most prominent roles followed between 1953 and 1956:
La provinciale (1953),
Terza liceo (1954),
Le Rouge et le Noir (1954),
Fortune carrée (1955) and
The Black Tent (1956), directed by
Brian Desmond Hurst, portraying Mabrouka ben Yussef. She retired from acting at the end of the 1950s. == Personal life ==