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Sophia Loren is an Academy Award-winning Italian actress. A striking beauty, Loren is often listed among the world's all time most attractive women.
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Raised in poverty, Sophia Loren began her film career in 1951 and came to be regarded as one of the worlds most beautiful women. Loren won the Best Actress Academy Award for the film Two Women in 1961 and an Academy Honorary Award in 1991. Married to producer Carlo Ponti for 50 years until his death in 2007.
Actress Sophia Loren was born Sofia Villani Scicolone on September 20, 1934 in Rome, Italy. Her father, Riccardo Scicolone, considered himself a "construction engineer," but in fact he spent most of his time hanging around the fringes of show business, hoping to romance young actresses. Sophia Loren's mother, Romilda Villani, was one of them. Bearing an uncanny resemblance to Greta Garbo , Villani had once been offered a trip to the United States to play Garbo's body double, but her mother refused to let her go.
After Loren's birth, her mother took her back to her hometown of Pozzuoli on the Bay of Naples, which one travel book described as "perhaps the most squalid city in Italy." Although Riccardo Scicolone fathered another child by Villani, they never married. As Loren's mother put it, "That pig was free to marry me, but instead he dumped me and married another woman."
Although she would go on to be considered one of the most beautiful women in history, Loren's wet nurse remembered her as "the ugliest child I ever saw in my life." A quiet and reserved child, Loren grew up in extreme poverty, living with her mother and many other relatives at her grandparents' home, where she shared a bedroom with eight people. Things got worse when World War II ravaged the already struggling city of Pozzuoli.
The resulting famine was so great that Loren's mother occasionally had to siphon off a cup of water from the car radiator to ration between her daughters by the spoonful. During one aerial bombardment, Loren was knocked to the ground and split open her chin, leaving a scar that has remained ever since.
Nicknamed "little stick" by her classmates for her sickly physique, at the age of 14 Loren blossomed, seemingly overnight, from a frail child into a beautiful and voluptuous woman. "It became a pleasure just to stroll down the street," she remembered of her sudden physical transformation. That same year, Loren won second place in a beauty competition, receiving as her prize a small sum of cash and free wallpaper for her grandparents' living room.
In 1950, when she was 15 years old, Loren and her mother set off for Rome to try to make their living as actresses. Loren landed her first role as an extra in the 1951 Mervyn LeRoy film Quo Vadis . She also landed work as a model for various fumetti, Italian publications that resemble comic books but with real photographs instead of illustrations.
After various bit parts and a small role in the 1952 film La Favorita , the first for which she adopted the stage name "Loren," she delivered her breakthrough performance as the title character in the 1953 film Aida . Another leading role in The Gold of Naples (1954) established Loren as one of the up-and-coming stars of Italian cinema.
In 1957, Loren starred in her first Hollywood film, The Pride and the Passion , filmed in Paris and costarring Cary Grant and Frank Sinatra . At the same time, she became enmeshed in a love triangle when both Grant and an Italian film producer named Carlo Ponti declared their love for her. Although she had a schoolgirl's crush on Grant, Loren ultimately chose Ponti, a man the media joked was twice her age and half her height.
Even though they married in 1957, complications regarding the annulment of Ponti's first marriage prevented their union from being officially legally recognized in Italy for another decade. Loren and Ponti's marriage nevertheless remains one of the rare, heartwarming success stories among celebrity relationships. They remained happily married until Ponti's death in 2007. According to Loren, the secret to their relationship was maintaining a low profile despite their celebrity status. "Show business is what we do, not what we are," she said.
In 1960, Loren turned in the most acclaimed performance of her career in the Italian World War II film Two Women . In a film with parallels to her own childhood, Loren played a mother desperately trying to provide for her daughter in war-ravaged Rome. The film transformed Loren into an international celebrity, winning her the 1961 Academy Award for Best Lead Actress. She was the first actress ever to win the award for a non-English-language film.
Throughout the 1960s, Loren continued to star in Italian, American and French films, cementing her status as one of the great international movie stars of her generation. Her most notable 1960s performances include Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (1963), which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film, Marriage, Italian Style (1964), for which she earned another Oscar nomination for Best Actress, and A Countess from Hong Kong (1967), costarring Marlon Brando .
Loren moved back to her native Italy during the 1970s and spent most of the decade making highly popular Italian films. She had given birth to two sons, Carlo Hubert Leone Ponti, Jr. (born December 29, 1968) and Edoardo (born January 6, 1973), and during the 1980s she backed off her intense filming schedule to spend more time raising her teenaged children.
Loren also expanded into other business ventures. In 1981 she became the first female celebrity to release her own perfume, following up with a personal eyewear line shortly thereafter. Loren published a book, Women and Beauty , in 1994. She continues to act and appear frequently in public as one of the film industry's greatest living legends. Some of her more popular and acclaimed later films include Prêt-à-Porter (1994), Grumpier Old Men (1995) and Nine (2009).
Loren retains her youthful energy and age-defying hourglass physique. She still can be seen strutting down the red carpet into award shows, looking fabulous in high heels and low-cut dresses that women several decades her junior would be happy to pull off. However, after more than 100 films and five decades in the spotlight, Loren remains true to her humble Italian roots.
Perhaps the best evidence of this is the fact that as an actress Loren has always delivered her best and most acclaimed performances playing salt-of-earth women, not bombshell heroines. As one director recently said, "Sophia is perhaps the only movie star who has never forgotten where she came from."
Now a resident of Geneva, Switzerland, Loren continues to see the world as a place full of beauty: "I always wake up early and jump out of bed — sometimes not wanting to, because one can always find an alibi not to exercise — and then I take a walk for an hour. And as I walk round the park I always think, 'Maybe round the corner I am going to find something beautiful.' I always think positively. It is very rare that you find me in a mood that is sad or melancholic."
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Sophia Loren was born as Sofia Scicolone at the Clinica Regina Margherita in Rome on September 20, 1934. Her father Riccardo was married to another woman and refused to marry her mother Romilda Villani , despite the fact that she was the mother of his two children (Sophia and her younger sister Maria Scicolone ). Growing up in the slums of Pozzuoli ...
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2010
My House Is Full of Mirrors
(TV Movie)
Romilda Villani
2004
Lives of the Saints
(TV Movie)
Teresa Innocente
2001
Francesca and Nunziata
(TV Movie)
Francesca Montorsi
1995
Grumpier Old Men
Maria Sophia Coletta Ragetti
1994
Ready to Wear
Isabella de la Fontaine
1990
Saturday, Sunday and Monday
Rosa Priore
1989
Running Away
(TV Movie)
Cesira
- The Fortunate Pilgrim
(1988)
... Lucia
- The Fortunate Pilgrim
(1988)
... Lucia
1986
Courage
(TV Movie)
Marianna Miraldo
1984
Qualcosa di biondo
(TV Movie)
Aurora
1980
Sophia Loren: Her Own Story
(TV Movie)
Sophia / Romilda Villani
1977
A Special Day
Antonietta Taberi
1976
The Cassandra Crossing
Jennifer Rispoli Chamberlain
1974
Brief Encounter
(TV Movie)
Anna Jesson
1972
Man of La Mancha
Dulcinea / Aldonza
1971
Lady Liberty
Maddalena Ciarrapico
1970
The Priest's Wife
Valeria Billi
1970
Mera Naam Joker
Self : picture on cover of Life Magazine (uncredited)
1967
Ghosts, Italian Style
Maria Gennari
1967
More Than a Miracle
Isabella Candeloro
1967
A Countess from Hong Kong
Natascha
1965
Lady L
Lady Louise Lendale / Lady L
1965
Operation Crossbow
Nora Van Ostamgen
1964
Marriage Italian Style
Filumena Marturano
1963
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Adelina Sbaratti / Anna Molteni / Mara
1962
Five Miles to Midnight
Lisa Macklin
1962
The Condemned of Altona
Johanna von Gerlach
1962
Boccaccio '70
Zoe (segment "La riffa")
1961
Madame
Catherine Hubscher, dite "Madame Sans-Gêne"
1960
It Started in Naples
Lucia Curcio
1960
A Breath of Scandal
Princess Olympia
1960
Heller in Pink Tights
Angela Rossini
1958
Desire Under the Elms
Anna / Wife-Ephraim's stepmother
1957
The Pride and the Passion
Juana
1956
What a Woman!
Antonietta Fallari
1955
Scandal in Sorrento
Sofia Cocozza - 'a Smargiassa'
1955
The Miller's Beautiful Wife
Carmela
1955
The Sign of Venus
Agnese Tirabassi
1954
The River Girl
Nives Mongolini
1954
Too Bad She's Bad
Lina Stroppiani
1954
The Gold of Naples
Sofia (segment "Pizze a credito")
1954
Pilgrim of Love
Giulietta / Beppina Delli Colli
1954
The Anatomy of Love
La bella ragazza (segment "La macchina fotografica")
1954
Two Nights with Cleopatra
Cleopatra / Nisca
1953
Ci troviamo in galleria
Marisa
1953
Woman of the Red Sea
Barbara Lama
1952
La favorita
Leonora (as Sofia Lazzaro)
1952
The Piano Tuner Has Arrived
Amica di Giulietta (as Sofia Lazzaro)
1952
La tratta delle bianche
Elvira (as Sofia Lazzaro)
1952
The Dream of Zorro
Conchita (as Sofia Scicolone)
1951
Anna
L'assistente di Vittorio al nightclub (uncredited)
1951
Era lui, sì, sì!
Odalisca (as Sofia Lazzaro)
1951
Il padrone del vapore
Una ballerinetta (as Sofia Lazzaro)
1951
Il mago per forza
La Sposa (as Sofia Scicolone)
1951
Quo Vadis
Lygia's Slave (uncredited)
1951
Milano miliardaria
Una commessa del bar (as Sofia Scicolone)
1951
Io sono il capataz
Segretaria del Dittatore (as Sofia Scicolone)
1951
Lebbra bianca
A girl in the boardinghouse (as Sofia Lazzaro)
1950
Il voto
Un popolana alla festa di Piedigrotta (uncredited)
1950
Cuori sul mare
Una ragazza al ristorante (uncredited)
1950
Le sei mogli di Barbablù
Ragazza rapita (uncredited)
1950
Tototarzan
Una tarzanide (uncredited)
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The Lost Daughter
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- Dakloos
(2018)
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2015
The Lobster
(performer: "Ti ein' afto pouto lene agapi")
- Lord of Animals
(2012)
... (performer: "Mambo Italiano")
2009
Nine
(performer: "Guarda La Luna")
2004
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
(performer: "Goodness Gracious Me")
1989
Running Away
(TV Movie) (performer: "Ma Dio ddo' sta")
1989
Scandal
(performer: "Goodness Gracious Me" - as Sofia Loren, uncredited)
1984
Qualcosa di biondo
(TV Movie) (performer: "Santa Lucia luntana" - uncredited)
1972
Man of La Mancha
("The Impossible Dream" (second reprise)) / (performer: "It's All The Same", "The Dubbing" (Knight of the Woeful Countenance), "Aldonza", "Dulcinea" (reprise), "Man of La Mancha" (second reprise), "Finale: The Impossible Dream")
1970
The Priest's Wife
(performer: "Anyone")
1965
The Love Goddesses
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