Coordinates | 38°56′17″N77°4′56″N |
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name | Sophia Loren |
birth name | Sofia Villani Scicolone |
birth date | September 20, 1934 |
birth place | Rome, Italy |
other names | Sofia LazzaroSofia Scicolone |
spouse | Carlo Ponti(m. 1957-62, annulled; 1966-2007, his death) |
children | Carlo Ponti, Jr., Edoardo Ponti |
relatives | Alessandra Mussolini (niece) |
years active | 1950–present |
occupation | Actress |
nationality | Italian |
residence | Geneva, Switzerland }} |
In 1962, Loren won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Two Women, along with 21 awards, becoming the first actress to win an Academy Award for a non-English-speaking performance. Loren has won 50 international awards, including two Oscars, seven Golden Globe Awards, a Grammy Award, a BAFTA Award and a Laurel Award. Her other films include: Houseboat (1958), El Cid (1961), Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963), Marriage Italian-Style (1964), and A Special Day (1977). She has received critical and commercial success in movies for home box-office such as Courage (1986) and in American blockbusters such as Grumpier Old Men (1995), and Nine (2009). In 1994 she starred in Robert Altman's Ready to Wear, which earned her a Golden Globe nomination in 1995. The same year she received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievements.
In 1999, Loren was listed by the American Film Institute on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars as #21 of 25 American female screen legends of all time. In 2002, she was honored by the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) at its annual Anniversary Gala and was inducted into its Italian American Hall of Fame. In 2009, the Guinness Book of World Records recognized her as "Italy's Most Awarded Actress".
In 1991, the Republic of France awarded her a Distinction of la Légion d'honneur (the Legion of Honor) with the grade of Chevalier (Knight). In 1994, she was awarded with the Honorary Golden Bear at the 44th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1997, Loren was invested Cavaliere di Gran Croce Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana (Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic). In 2010, she was awarded the Praemium Imperiale by the Imperial Family of Japan on behalf of the Japan Art Association.
During World War II, the harbour and munitions plant in Pozzuoli was a frequent bombing target of the Allies. During one raid, as Loren ran to the shelter, she was struck by shrapnel and wounded in the chin. After that, the family moved to Naples, where they were taken in by distant relatives.
After the war, Loren and her family returned to Pozzuoli. Grandmother Luisa opened a pub in their living room, selling homemade cherry liquor. Villani played the piano, Maria sang and Loren waited on tables and washed dishes. The place was very popular with the American GIs stationed nearby.
When she was 14 years old, Loren entered a beauty contest in Naples and, while not winning, was selected as one of the finalists. Later she enrolled in acting class and was selected as an extra in Mervyn LeRoy's 1951 film Quo Vadis, launching her career as a motion picture actress. She eventually for 1952's La Favorita, her first larger role, Ponti changed her name to Sophia Loren.
Loren became an international film star with a five-picture contract with Paramount Pictures in 1958. Among her films at this time were Desire Under the Elms with Anthony Perkins, based upon the Eugene O'Neill play; Houseboat, a romantic comedy co-starring Cary Grant; and George Cukor's Heller in Pink Tights, in which she appeared as a blonde for the first time.
In 1961, she starred in Vittorio De Sica's Two Women, a stark, gritty story of a mother who is raped while trying to protect her daughter in war-torn Italy. Originally cast as the daughter, Loren fought against type and was re-cast as the mother (actress Eleonora Brown would portray the daughter). Loren's performance earned her many awards, including the Cannes Film Festival's best performance prize, and an Academy Award for Best Actress, the first major Academy Award for a non-English-language performance and to an Italian actress. She won 22 international awards for Two Women. The film proved to be extremely well accepted by the critics and it was a huge commercial success.
Loren is known for her sharp wit and insight. One of her most frequently-quoted sayings is her quip about her famously-voluptuous figure: "Everything you see, I owe to spaghetti." However, on the 20 December 2009, episode of CBS News Sunday Morning, Loren denied ever saying the line.
During the 1960s, Loren was one of the most popular actresses in the world, and she continued to make films in both the U.S. and Europe, acting with leading male stars. In 1964, her career reached its zenith when she received $1 million to act in The Fall of the Roman Empire. In 1965, she received a second Academy Award nomination for her performance in ''Marriage Italian-Style.
Among Loren's best-known films of this period are Samuel Bronston's epic production of El Cid (1961) with Charlton Heston, The Millionairess (1960) with Peter Sellers, It Started in Naples (1960) with Clark Gable, Vittorio De Sica's triptych Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (1963) with Marcello Mastroianni, Peter Ustinov's Lady L (1965) with Paul Newman, the 1966 classic Arabesque with Gregory Peck, and Charlie Chaplin's final film, A Countess from Hong Kong (1967) with Marlon Brando.
Loren received four Golden Globe Awards between 1964 and 1977 as "World Film Favorite - Female."
Loren has also recorded well over two dozen songs throughout her career, including a best-selling album of comedic songs with Peter Sellers; reportedly, she had to fend off his romantic advances. It was partly owing to Sellers' infatuation with Loren that he split with his first wife, Anne Howe. Loren has made it clear to numerous biographers that Sellers' affections were reciprocated only platonically. This collaboration was covered in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers where actress Sonia Aquino portrayed Loren. It is said that the song "Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)" by Peter Sarstedt was inspired by Loren.
Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, Loren was selective about choosing her films and ventured into various areas of business, including cook books, eyewear, jewellery and perfume.
She received a Golden Globe nomination for her performance in Robert Altman's film Ready to Wear (1994), co-starring Julia Roberts.
In the comedy Grumpier Old Men (1995), Loren played a femme fatale opposite Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon, and Ann-Margret. The film was a box-office success and became Loren's biggest U.S hit in years.
In 2001, Loren received a Special Grand Prix of the Americas Award at the Montreal World Film Festival for her body of work. She filmed two projects in Canada during this time: the independent film Between Strangers (2002), directed by her son Edoardo and co-starring Mira Sorvino, and the television miniseries Lives of the Saints (2004).
In 2009, after five years off the set and fourteen years since she starred in a prominent US theatrical film, Loren starred in Rob Marshall's film version of Nine, based on the Broadway musical that tells the story of a director whose midlife crisis causes him to struggle to complete his latest film; he is forced to balance the influences of numerous formative women in his life, including his deceased mother. Loren was Marshall's first and only choice for the role. The film also stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Penelope Cruz, Kate Hudson, Marion Cotillard, and Nicole Kidman. As a part of the cast she received her first nomination for a Screen Actors Guild Award.
In 2010, Loren played her own mother in a two-part Italian television miniseries about her early life, directed by Vittorio Sindoni, entitled La Mia Casa È Piena di Specchi (translated My House Is Full of Mirrors), based on the memoir written by her sister Maria.
In September 1999, Loren filed a lawsuit against 76 adult websites for posting altered nude photos of her on the internet.
Loren is a huge fan of the football club S.S.C. Napoli. In May 2007, when the team was third in Serie B, she told the Gazzetta dello Sport that she would do a striptease if the team won.
Loren posed scantily-clad at 72 for the 2007 Pirelli Calendar along with such actresses as Penelope Cruz and Hilary Swank.
The couple had two sons: Carlo Ponti Jr. (born 29 December 1968) and Edoardo Ponti (born 6 January 1973).
Loren remained married to Carlo Ponti until his death on 10 January 2007 of pulmonary complications.
When asked in a November 2009 interview if she is ever likely to marry again, Loren replied "No, never again. It would be impossible to love anyone else."
Her daughters-in-law are Sasha Alexander and Andrea Meszaros. Loren has three grandchildren: Lucia Ponti (born 12 May 2006), Vittorio Ponti (born 3 April 2007). and Leonardo Fortunato (born 20 December 2010).
! Year | ! Title | ! Role | Notes |
1950 | I Am the Capataz | Secretary of the Dictator | |
1950 | Barbablu's Six Wives | Girl kidnapped | |
1950 | Tototarzan | A tarzanide | |
1950 | I Devote, Thee | A popular to the party of piedigrotta | |
1950 | Extra | Uncredited | |
1951 | White Leprosy | A girl in the boardinghouse | |
1951 | Owner of the Vapor | Ballerinetta | |
1951 | Milan Billionaire | Extra | Uncredited |
1951 | Magician for Force | The bride | |
1951 | Lygia's slave | Uncredited | |
1951 | It's Him!... Yes! Yes! | Odalisca | |
1951 | Night club assistant | Uncredited | |
1952 | And Arrived the Accordatore | Amica di Giulietta | |
1952 | I Dream of Zorro | Conchita | As Sofia Scicolone |
1952 | Leonora | ||
1953 | Bonbon | ||
1953 | Pilgrim of Love | ||
1953 | We Find Ourselves in Arcade | Marisa | |
1953 | Two Nights with Cleopatra | Cleopatra/Nisca | |
1953 | Girls Marked Danger | Elvira | |
1953 | Good Folk's Sunday | Ines | |
1953 | Aida | ||
1953 | Africa Under the Seas | Barbara Lama | |
1954 | Neapolitan Carousel | Sisina | |
1954 | Anna | ||
1954 | |||
1954 | Poverty and Nobility | Gemma | |
1954 | Sofia | Segment "Pizze a Credito" | |
1954 | Honoria | ||
1954 | Too Bad She's Bad | Lina Stroppiani | |
1955 | Agnese Tirabassi | ||
1955 | Carmela | ||
1955 | Nives Mongolini | ||
1955 | Scandal in Sorrento | Donna Sofia | |
1956 | Lucky to Be a Woman | Antonietta Fallari | |
1957 | Boy on a Dolphin | Phaedra | |
1957 | Juana | ||
1957 | Legend of the Lost | Dita | |
1958 | Anna Cabot | ||
1958 | Stella | ||
1958 | Rose Bianco | Volpi Cup | |
1958 | Cinzia Zaccardi | ||
1959 | That Kind of Woman | Kay | |
1960 | Heller in Pink Tights | Angela Rossini | |
1960 | It Started in Naples | Lucia Curio | Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy |
1960 | Epifania Parerga | ||
1960 | Princess Olympia | ||
1960 | Two Women | Cesira | |
1961 | Jimena | ||
1962 | Catherine Hubscher, said "Madame Sans-Gêne" | ||
1962 | Boccaccio '70 | Zoe | Segment "La Riffa" |
1963 | Adelina Sbaratti/Anna Molteni/Mara | David di Donatello for Best Actress | |
1964 | Lucilla | ||
1964 | Marriage Italian-Style | Filumena Marturano | |
1965 | Nora | ||
1965 | Lady L | Lady Louise Lendale/Lady L | |
1966 | Judith | ||
1966 | Yasmin Azir | ||
1967 | Natascha | ||
1967 | More Than a Miracle | Isabella Candeloro | |
1968 | Ghosts - Italian Style | Maria Lojacono | |
1970 | Giovanna | ||
1971 | Lady Liberty | Maddalena Ciarrapico | |
1971 | Valeria Billi | ||
1972 | Aldonza/Dulcinea | ||
1973 | Hermana Germana | ||
1974 | Adriana de Mauro | ||
1974 | Teresa Leoni | ||
1974 | Anna Jesson | ||
1975 | Sex Pot | Pupa | |
1976 | Jennifer Rispoli Chamberlain | ||
1977 | Antoinette | ||
1978 | Titina Paterno | ||
1978 | Brass Target | Mara/cameo role | |
1978 | Angela | Angela Kincaid | |
1979 | Adele Tasca/cameo role | ||
1980 | Sophia Loren: Her Own Story | herself/Romilda Villani (her mother) | |
1984 | Aurora | Television film | |
1986 | Marianna Miraldo | Television film | |
1988 | Lucia | Television miniseries | |
1989 | Running Away | Cesira | |
1990 | Saturday, Sunday and Monday | Rosa Priore | |
1994 | Isabella de la Fontaine | ||
1995 | Grumpier Old Men | Maria Sophia Coletta Ragetti | |
1997 | Soleil | Maman Levy | |
2001 | Francesca e Nunziata | Francesca Montorsi | |
2002 | Between Strangers | Olivia | |
2004 | Too Much Romance... It's Time for Stuffed Peppers | Maria | |
2005 | Lives of the Saints | Teresa Innocente | |
2009 | Mamma | ||
2010 | My House Is Full of Mirrors | Romilda Villani | |
2010 | Femina | Pre-production | |
2011 | Herself | Argentinian television sitcom |
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