Sophia Loren
Acting
- Born:
- 1934-09-20
- Place of birth:
- Rome, Lazio, Italy
Biography
Sophia Loren, OMRI (born Sofia Villani Scicolone; 20 September 1934) is an Italian actress. 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 an Oscar, 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), 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. de Mille 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 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sophia Loren, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Vittorio De Sica: Staging Life
Quelli che il cinema
Ciao Marcello - Mastroianni l'antidivo
Brasiliana: The Black Musical That Introduced Brazil to the World
L'Âge d'or de la pub
Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields
Sophia!
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
We Are Cinema
Mythos Côte d'Azur - Liebe, Luxus, Leidenschaft
Morceaux de Cannes
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
What Would Sophia Loren Do?
The Life Ahead
Beautiful Like a Poem
Claudia Cardinale, la créature du secret
Sophia Loren, a special destiny
Untouchable
Gina, Sophia, Claudia, trois symboles de la féminité à l'italienne
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
Sophia Loren: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival
Behind the White Glasses
Marcello Mastroianni, the Ideal Italian
Tab Hunter Confidential
Great Women: Sophia on Loren
Human Voice
I Am Divine
Mademoiselle C
Talking Pictures
Girlfriend in a Coma
Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane
Bert Stern - Original Madman
Hollywood Invasion
L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
1960
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
Nine
Vittorio D.
Hollywood sul Tevere
Sophia: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
A Prince Called Toto
Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess
Too Much Romance... It's Time for Stuffed Peppers
Marcello, una vita dolce
Lives of the Saints
Looking for Sophia
Charlie Chaplin: The Forgotten Years
Francesca and Nunziata
Cleavage
Between Strangers
V Graham Norton
Heart of the Festival
Beckmann
The View
Leute heute
Soleil
Grumpier Old Men
Prêt-à-Porter
Saturday, Sunday and Monday
Anthony Quinn: An Original
Running Away
The Fortunate Pilgrim
Michael Jackson: The Legend Continues
Courage
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
Goldene Kamera
Aurora
Wogan
Champs-Elysées
Wetten, dass..?
Sophia Loren: Her Own Story
SuperTotò
Firepower
Brass Target
Blood Feud
Angela
A Special Day
Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti
The Cassandra Crossing
Music & Guests
Cérémonie des César
Brief Encounter
Numéro un
Gun Moll
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Spécial cinéma
Jury of One
The Voyage
Man of La Mancha
White Sister
Lady Liberty
Film '72
The Priest's Wife
Hollywood Blue
Sunflower
Ghosts, Italian Style
With Love, Sophia
More Than a Miracle
Monument
A Countess from Hong Kong
Lionpower from MGM
Arabesque
Judith
Lady L
Operation Crossbow
Marriage Italian Style
Sophia Loren in Rome
Pour le plaisir
The Fall of the Roman Empire
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
La Rabbia
Showman
Five Miles to Midnight
The Condemned of Altona
Lykke og krone
Boccaccio '70
Madame
El Cid
The New Steve Allen Show
Two Women
The Millionairess
It Started in Naples
A Breath of Scandal
Heller in Pink Tights
That Kind of Woman
Zwischen Glück und Krone
The Black Orchid
Houseboat
Along the Coast
The Key
Desire Under the Elms
Legend of the Lost
The Pride and the Passion
Boy on a Dolphin
Cinépanorama
What a Woman!
Scandal in Sorrento
The Miller's Beautiful Wife
The Sign of Venus
Was bin ich?
Woman of the River
Too Bad She's Bad
Attila
The Gold of Naples
Pilgrim of Love
Neapolitan Carousel
Poverty and Nobility
Reflets de Cannes
The Anatomy of Love
Two Nights with Cleopatra
A Day in Court
The Country of the Campanelli
I'll See You on the Balcony
Aida
Africa Under The Sea
The Oscars
Good Folk's Sunday
La Favorita
È arrivato l'accordatore
Girls Marked Danger
The Dream of Zorro
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Anna
It's Him!... Yes! Yes!
Il padrone del vapore
Il mago per forza
Quo Vadis
Milano miliardaria
Io sono il capataz
White Leprosy
Le sei mogli di Barbablù
Cuori sul mare
Tototarzan
The Promise
What's My Line?
The Ed Sullivan Show
Bambi