Overview
Born : September 20, 1934 in Rome, Lazio, Italy
Birth Name : Sofia Villani Scicolone
Nickname : The Italian Marilyn Monroe
Height : 5' 8½" (1.74 m)
Sophia Loren was brought into the world as Sofia Scicolone at the Clinica Regina Margherita in Rome on September 20, 1934. Her dad Riccardo was hitched to one more lady and would not wed her mom Romilda Villani, regardless of the way that she was the mother of his two youngsters (Sophia and her more youthful sister Maria Scicolone). Experiencing childhood in the ghettos of Pozzuoli during the subsequent World War with next to no help from her dad, she encountered incredible pity in her adolescence. Her life improved quite a bit when, at age 14, she participated in into a stunner challenge and set as one of the finalists. It was here that Sophia grabbed the eye of film maker Carlo Ponti, exactly 22 years her senior, whom she later wedded. Maybe he was the mentor she never experienced as a kid. Under his direction, Sophia was put under agreement and showed up as an additional an out of ten movies starting with Le sei mogli di Barbablù (1950), preceding moving gradually up to supporting jobs. In these early movies, she was credited as "Sofia Lazzaro" in light of the fact that individuals kidded her magnificence could raise Lazzarus from the dead.
By her late adolescents, Sophia was playing lead jobs in numerous Italian highlights, for example, La favorita (1952) and Aida (1953). In 1957, she set out on a fruitful acting profession in the United States, featuring in Boy on a Dolphin (1957), Legend of the Lost (1957), and The Pride and the Passion (1957) that year. She had a brief yet much-promoted toss with co-star Cary Grant, who was almost 31 years her senior. She was just 22 while he was 53, and she dismissed an engagement proposition from him. They were combined together a second time in the family-accommodating rom-com Houseboat (1958). While under agreement to Paramount, Sophia featured in Desire Under the Elms (1958), The Key (1958), The Black Orchid (1958), It Started in Naples (1960), Heller in Pink Tights (1960), A Breath of Scandal (1960), and The Millionairess (1960) preceding getting back to Italy to star in Two Women (1960). The film was a period piece about a lady living in war-torn Italy who is assaulted while attempting to safeguard her young girl. Initially cast as the more impressive kid, Sophia battled against type and was re-given a role as the mother, showing an absence of vanity and substantiating herself as a certifiable entertainer. This presentation got worldwide praise and was regarded with an Academy Award for Best Actress.
Sophia stayed a true blue global celebrity all through the sixties and seventies, making films on the two sides of the Atlantic, and featuring inverse such driving men as Paul Newman, Marlon Brando, Gregory Peck, and Charlton Heston. Her English-language films included El Cid (1961), The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), Arabesque (1966), Man of La Mancha (1972), and The Cassandra Crossing (1976). She acquired more extensive regard with her Italian movies, particularly Marriage Italian Style (1964) and A Special Day (1977), the two of which co-featured Marcello Mastroianni. During these years she got a second Oscar selection and won five Golden Globe Awards.
From the eighties forward, Sophia's appearances on the big screen came rare. She liked to invest most of her energy bringing up children Carlo Ponti Jr. (b. 1968) and Edoardo Ponti (b. 1973). Her main acting credits during the ten years were five TV films, starting with Sophia Loren: Her Own Story (1980), a biopic in which she depicted herself and her mom. She wandered into different areas of business and turned into the principal entertainer to send off her own aroma and plan of eyewear. In 1982 she willfully burned through nineteen days in prison for tax avoidance.
In 1991 Sophia got an Honorary Academy Award for her assortment of work, and was proclaimed "one of world film's most noteworthy fortunes." That very year, she encountered an awful misfortune when her mom passed on from disease. Her re-visitation of standard movies in Prêt-à-Porter (1994) was generally welcomed, albeit the film overall was not. She followed this up with her greatest U.S. hit in years, the satire Grumpier Old Men (1995), in which she played a hot divorced person who entices Walter Matthau. Throughout the following ten years Sophia had plum jobs in a couple of free movies like Soleil (1997), Between Strangers (2002) (coordinated by Edoardo), and Lives of the Saints (2004). Still lovely at 72, she presented insufficiently clad for the 2007 Pirelli Calendar. Tragically, that very year she grieved the passing of her 94-year-old life partner, Carlo Ponti. In 2009, after decidedly an excessive amount of time away from film, she showed up in the melodic Nine (2009) inverse Daniel Day-Lewis. Nowadays Sophia is situated in Switzerland however habitually goes to the states to invest energy with her children and their families (Eduardo is hitched to entertainer Sasha Alexander). Sophia Loren stays one of the most adored and unmistakable figures in the global film world.
Normal little girl of Romilda Villani by Riccardo Scicolone, child of Salvatore Louis, Marchese Scicolone, from a Noble family from Agrigento, Sicily, and spouse Sofia Maria Aquilino, of Venetian beginning, little girl of Angelo Aquilino and wife Alfonza Licata.
Mother of Carlo Ponti Jr. what's more Edoardo Ponti. Father is Carlo Ponti.
Picked by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World (1991).
She had her marriage abrogated to save Carlo Ponti from polygamy charges in Italy.
She carried out a 18-day jail punishment in Italy in 1982 for tax avoidance.
She might have been the curvy sex goddess as a grown-up. However, until age 14, she was a thin youngster and thought about an odd one out. Her epithets were "The Stick" and "Toothpick".
Picked by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#25) (1995).
Gets incredible joy from turning her exposed feet over a wooden moving pin while sitting in front of the TV.
She didn't coexist with Marlon Brando during the shooting of A Countess from Hong Kong (1967), particularly after the day they were doing an affection scene and he remarked, "Did you realize you have hairs up your noses?".
She performed two part harmonies with Peter Sellers which were significant hits in the UK pop diagram. "Oh dear Me" was delivered in 1960 and arrived at four and "Bangers and Mash" came to the best 20 out of 1961.
(September 17, 1957) Carlo Ponti acquired a Mexican separation from his first spouse and hitched Sophia as a substitute, while she was in Hollywood, recording Houseboat (1958) - and dating co-star Cary Grant.
While recording Boy on a Dolphin (1957), Sophia was expected to stroll in a channel to give crowds the feeling that her little co-star, Alan Ladd, was taller than she.
Has one sister, Maria Scicolone (conceived 1938); and two stepbrothers, Giuliano Scicolone (conceived 1943) and Giuseppe Scicolone (conceived 1946).
Experienced anxiety in front of large audiences and, subsequently, never showed up in a dramatic creation.
Had two unsuccessful labors before her first-conceived child Carlo Ponti Jr. In view of these complexities, she needed to have total bed rest all through her first and second effective pregnancies.
Her mom won an all-Italy Greta Garbo carbon copy challenge run by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1932; however, being just 17 years of age, her mom would not permit her to seek after her Hollywood dream. Before long, she became pregnant with Sofia.
Her embraced last name is a slight variety of "Toren" after the Swedish entertainer Märta Torén.
Her mom named significantly more than one her fatherly grandma. Whenever Sophia's dad deserted her, her maternal grandma started referring to her as "Lella".
Won a Grammy Award in 2004 for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for her work in "Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf/Beintus" alongside previous US President Bill Clinton and previous Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev.
Was named #21 Actress on The American Film Institute's 50 Greatest Screen Legends.
Now and again, male entertainers have been reluctant to show up with her, because of the way that she stands almost 5' 9" and wears transcending impact points and tall hair that can make her investigate six feet tall.
Her "Best Actress" Academy Award was the very first Oscar given for a presentation in a "unknown dialect" film.
Gotten a privileged citizenship in her old neighborhood of Pozzuoli, Italy on June 22, 2005 (she surrendered her Italian citizenship and turned into a French resident years prior due to lawful and charge issues she and her better half brought about in Italy).
Was leader of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1966.
(February 10, 2006) One of eight ladies, likewise among them Susan Sarandon and creator Isabel Allende, conveying the Olympic banner at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games' initial function in Turin.
She and Marcello Mastroianni showed up in 11 motion pictures together: Too Bad She's Bad (1954), The Miller's Wife (1955), What a Woman! (1956), Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963), Marriage Italian Style (1964), Sunflower (1970), The Priest's Wife (1970), La pupa del hoodlum (1975), A Special Day (1977), Blood Feud (1978) and Prêt-à-Porter (1994).
Refered to as one of Drew Barrymore's initial good examples. Loren was dear companions with Drew's adoptive parent Anna Strasberg (spouse of acclaimed acting mentor Lee Strasberg). Anna would bring youthful Drew- - from age 8 until she was 12- - to Sophia's farm outside Los Angeles, where Drew would enjoy summers with Loren's two children (Jane magazine talk with March 2007).
Love soccer club S.S.C. Napoli, she told the day by day "Gazzetta dello Sport", when the group was only third in Serie B, that she would do a striptease assuming they accomplished advancement to Serie A for the following season. Whenever they figured out how to accomplish advancement, she clarified that she had made recently a joke. [June 2007]
Has showed up in the 2007 release of the well known Pirelli Calendar at age 72, making her the most established model in its set of experiences.
Was referenced in the melody "I Shall Be Free" by Bob Dylan on his collection "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" (1963).
Possesses a loft in the Trump World Tower in New York City.
Abhorring beauty parlors, she does her hair and nails herself.
Being one of the hopefuls at the 1950 Miss Italia contest, she acquired the subsequent spot and was granted "Miss Eleganza".
The Best Actress Oscar she won for Two Women (1960) was taken by criminals from her Italian manor. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) later swapped it for a little charge.
Is one of five entertainers to win an Oscar playing a person that spoke generally in an unknown dialect. The other are Marion Cotillard, Robert De Niro, Roberto Benigni and Benicio Del Toro.
Her sister Maria Scicolone was once hitched to despot Benito Mussolini's child, Romano Mussolini.
Adoptive parent of Drew Barrymore.
Was among those considered for the job of Lara Antipova in Doctor Zhivago (1965), which eventually went to Julie Christie.
Mother by marriage of Sasha Alexander and Andrea Mészáros.
Turned down jobs that went to Joan Collins on Dynasty (1981) and Gina Lollobrigida on Falcon Crest (1981).
Spouse Carlo Ponti was two years more seasoned than Sophia's mom.
Has played the adoration interest of a lot more established man in most of her movies, the most illustrative model being It Started in Naples (1960) with Clark Gable when she was 25 and he was 59.
Her dad Riccardo Scicolone passed on from disease in 1976.
Has four grandkids: Lucia (conceived May 12, 2006) and Leonardo (conceived December 20, 2010) from child Edoardo Ponti and his significant other Sasha Alexander; Vittorio (conceived April 3, 2007) and Beatrice (conceived March 15, 2012) from child Carlo Ponti Jr. what's more his better half Andrea Meszaros.
Gone to the September 1992 memorial service of previous co-star Anthony Perkins.
Turned down the lead spot in Barbarella (1968).
Turned down a proposal to show up in the Western parody 4 for Texas (1963) and a $1-million charge for a long time work.
She was granted a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7050 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 1, 1994.
She was granted a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars in Palm Springs, California on January 9, 1994.
Gotten back to work 7 months subsequent to bringing forth her child Edoardo Ponti to start recording The Journey (1974).
Was one month pregnant with her child Edoardo Ponti when she finished shooting Man of La Mancha (1972).
Conveyed both her children, Carlo Ponti Jr. also Edoardo Ponti, by means of Cesarean area.
(September 17, 1999) Filed a claim against 76 sites for utilizing "deceitful photos" of her on grown-up destinations.
Is one of 14 Best Actress Oscar champs to have not acknowledged their Academy Award face to face, Loren's being for Two Women (1960). The others are Katharine Hepburn, Claudette Colbert, Joan Crawford, Judy Holliday, Vivien Leigh, Anna Magnani, Ingrid Bergman, Anne Bancroft, Patricia Neal, Elizabeth Taylor, Maggie Smith, Glenda Jackson and Ellen Burstyn.
Was the 55th entertainer to get an Academy Award; she won the Best Actress Oscar for Two Women (1960) at The 34th Annual Academy Awards (1962) on April 9, 1962.
Is one of six entertainers with various Oscar assignments for unknown dialect films; the others are Marcello Mastroianni for Divorce Italian Style (1961), A Special Day (1977) and Dark Eyes (1987) (Italian), Liv Ullmann for The Emigrants (1971) and Face to Face (1976) (Swedish), Isabelle Adjani for The Story of Adele H (1975) and Camille Claudel (1988) (French), Javier Bardem for Before Night Falls (2000) and Biutiful (2010) (Spanish), and Marion Cotillard for La Vie En Rose (2007) and Two Days, One Night (2014) (French). Loren was assigned for her exhibitions in Two Women (1960) (for which she won) and Marriage Italian Style (1964) (Italian), she and Marion Cotillard are the just atresses to win a Best Actress Oscar for an unknown dialect film, they additionally showed up together in the film Nine (2009).
Was referenced in a tune named "Goody gumdrops" by Allan Sherman.
Yvonne De Carlo propelled her to turn into an entertainer.
In light of her adoration for entertainer Tyrone Power, she saw the sentiment show Blood and Sand (1941) twenty times.
For her 80th birthday celebration in 2014, her child, Carlo Ponti Jr., authorized an orchestra to be composed by Daniel Brewbaker. "Sinfonietta per Sofia" ("for affection and chuckling") was acted in the Napa Valley in 2014 with Carlo Ponti Jr. leading the ensemble.
Her oldest child Carlo Ponti Jr. weighed 3.487050 Kilos or 7 lbs 11 oz upon entering the world as declared in the January 10, 1969 Milestones section of that weeks issue of Time magazine.
Notwithstanding being Italian, she was named by Lydia Simoneschi and Rita Savagnone in the Italian renditions of the greater part of her movies.
Starting at 2021, she is the fifth earliest enduring beneficiary of a Best Actress Oscar selection, attached with Piper Laurie and behind just Leslie Caron, Carroll Baker, Joanne Woodward, and Shirley MacLaine. She was selected (and won) in 1961 for Two Women (1960).
Sophia originally educated of her Oscar win for Two Women (1960) from recent co-star and lover Cary Grant who called her home in Italy from Los Angeles with the news. Greer Garson had acknowledged the statuette for her benefit (Santa Monica Civic Auditorium/April 9, 1962).
She played the mother of her genuine niece Alessandra Mussolini in A Special Day (1977).
Honoria was depicted by Kirsty Mitchell in the TV miniseries Attila the Hun (2001) and by Sophia Loren in the show film Attila the Hun (1954).
With El Cid (1961), she turned out to be just the second entertainer to get 1,000,000 [U.S.] dollars for a solitary film job. Elizabeth Taylor was the first for Cleopatra (1963) in 1960 yet El Cid (1961) was delivered to theaters first.
Her child Edoardo Ponti dated Chiara Mastroianni in 1992. Chiara's dad, Marcello Mastroianni, had a long expert relationship with Loren.
She quit smoking cigarettes in 1985.
After the passing of Sidney Poitier on 6 January 2022, Loren is the main living entertainer on the American Film Institute's rundown of the 100 Greatest Movie Stars, initially uncovered in 1999.
List of Sophia Loren Movies
- The Life Ahead
- Human Voice (Short)
- My House Is Full of Mirrors (TV Movie)
- Too Much Romance... It's Time for Stuffed Peppers
- Lives of the Saints (TV Movie)
- Between Strangers
- Francesca and Nunziata (TV Movie)
- Soleil
- Prêt-à-Porter
- Saturday, Sunday and Monday
- Blood Feud
- Angela
- A Special Day
- The Cassandra Crossing
- La pupa del gangster
- Brief Encounter (TV Movie)
- The Verdict
- The Journey
- Man of La Mancha
- White Sister
- Lady Liberty
- The Priest's Wife
- Mera Naam Joker
- Sunflower
- Ghosts, Italian Style
- More Than a Miracle
- A Countess from Hong Kong
- Arabesque
- Judith
- Operation Crossbow
- Marriage Italian Style
- The Fall of the Roman Empire
- Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
- Five Miles to Midnight
- The Condemned of Altona
- Boccaccio '70
- The Ed Sullivan Show (TV Series)
- Two Women
- The Millionairess
- It Started in Naples
- A Breath of Scandal
- Heller in Pink Tights
- That Kind of Woman
- Houseboat
- The Black Orchid
- The Key
- Desire Under the Elms
- Two Nights with Cleopatra
- A Day in Court
- Ci troviamo in galleria
- Woman of the Red Sea
- La domenica della buona gente
- La favorita
- The Piano Tuner Has Arrived
- La tratta delle bianche
- The Dream of Zorro
- Anna
- Era lui, sì, sì!
- Il padrone del vapore
- Il mago per forza
- Quo Vadis
- Milano miliardaria
- Io sono il capataz
- Lebbra bianca
- Il voto
- Cuori sul mare
- Le sei mogli di Barbablù
- Tototarzan & Many more....
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