Sofia Coppola Played a Boy | The Anniversary You Can’t Refuse: 40 Things You Didn’t Know About The Godfather | TIME.com (2024)

In the justly famous baptism scene near the film’s end, the role of young Michael Francis Rizzi (son of Connie Corleone) was played by an infant Sofia Coppola, who was born in May 1971. Other than the people playing main characters, Sofia is the only actor to have appeared in all three films. Everyone knows about The Godfather III, of course, but in The Godfather II, she can be briefly seen as a young immigrant girl on the ship that brings Vito Corleone to Ellis Island.

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Sofia Coppola Played a Boy | The Anniversary You Can’t Refuse: 40 Things You Didn’t Know About The Godfather | TIME.com (2024)
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