Sophia Loren
Born: 1934-09-20 in Rome, Lazio, Italy
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2026
- Vittorio De Sica: Staging Life as Self (Archive Footage)
2025
- Quelli che il cinema as Self
2024
- Ciao Marcello - Mastroianni l'antidivo as Self (archive footage)
- Brasiliana: The Black Musical That Introduced Brazil to the World as Herself (archive footage)
2023
- Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields as Self (archive footage)
- L'Âge d'or de la pub as Self (archive footage)
2022
- Belmondo: The Incorrigible
- Sophia! as Sé stessa
2021
- Morceaux de Cannes
- Mythos Côte d'Azur - Liebe, Luxus, Leidenschaft
- We Are Cinema as Self (archive footage)
- Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita as Self (archive footage)
- What Would Sophia Loren Do? as Self
2020
- The Life Ahead as Madame Rosa
- Beautiful Like a Poem as Self (archive footage)
2019
- Untouchable as Self (archive footage)
- Claudia Cardinale, la créature du secret as Self (archive footage)
- Sophia Loren, a special destiny as Self (archive footage)
- Gina, Sophia, Claudia, trois symboles de la féminité à l'italienne as Self
2016
- Sophia Loren: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival as Self - Guest
2015
- Tab Hunter Confidential as Self (archive)
- Marcello Mastroianni, the Ideal Italian as Self
- Behind the White Glasses as Self
2014
- I Am Divine as Self (archive)
- Human Voice as Angela
- Great Women: Sophia on Loren as Herself
2013
- Talking Pictures as Self (archive footage)
- Mademoiselle C as Self
2012
- Girlfriend in a Coma as Mara (archive footage) (uncredited)
2011
- Hollywood Invasion as self archive footage
- Bert Stern - Original Madman
- Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane as Self (archive footage)
2010
- Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff as Self (archive footage)
- L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo as Self
- 1960 as Self (archive footage)
2009
- Nine as Mamma
- Hollywood sul Tevere
- Vittorio D. as Self (archive footage)
2007
- Sophia: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow as Self
- A Prince Called Toto as Self
2006
- Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess as Self - Actress (archive footage)
- Marcello, una vita dolce as Self (archive footage)
- Too Much Romance... It's Time for Stuffed Peppers as Maria (as Sofia Loren)
2004
- Lives of the Saints as Teresa Innocente
- Looking for Sophia as Self (archive footage)
2003
- Francesca and Nunziata as Francesca Montorsi
- Charlie Chaplin: The Forgotten Years as Self
2002
- V Graham Norton as Self
- Between Strangers as Olivia
- Heart of the Festival as Self (archive footage)
- Cleavage
1999
- Beckmann as Self
1997
- The View as Self
- Leute heute as Self
- Soleil as Madame Levy
1995
- Kulturzeit as self
- Grumpier Old Men as Maria Sophia Coletta Ragetti
1994
- Prêt-à-Porter as Isabella de la Fontaine
1990
- Anthony Quinn: An Original as Self (archive footage)
- Saturday, Sunday and Monday as Rosa Priore
1989
- Running Away as Cesira
1988
- The Fortunate Pilgrim as Lucia
- Michael Jackson: The Legend Continues as Self
1986
- Courage as Marianna Miraldo
1985
1984
- Goldene Kamera as Self
- Aurora as Aurora
1982
- Wogan as Self
- Champs-Elysées as Self
1981
- Wetten, dass..? as Self
1980
- SuperTotò
- Sophia Loren: Her Own Story as Sophia Loren / Romilda Villani
1979
- Firepower as Adele Tasca
1978
- Brass Target as Mara
- Blood Feud as Titina Paterno
1977
- A Special Day as Antonietta Taberi
- Angela as Angela
- Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti as Self (archive footage)
1976
- Cérémonie des César as Self - President
- The Cassandra Crossing as Jennifer Rispoli Chamberlain
- Music & Guests as Self
- Brief Encounter as Anna Jesson
1975
- Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
- Numéro un as Self
- Gun Moll as Pupa
1974
- Spécial cinéma as Self
- The Voyage as Adriana de Mauro
- Jury of One as Teresa Leoni
1972
- Man of La Mancha as Dulcinea / Aldonza
- White Sister as soeur Germana
1971
- Film '72 as Self
- Lady Liberty as Maddalena Ciarrapico
1970
- Sunflower as Giovanna
- The Priest's Wife as Valeria Billi
- Hollywood Blue as (archive footage)
1967
- A Countess from Hong Kong as Natascha
- Lionpower from MGM as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- More Than a Miracle as Isabella Candeloro
- Ghosts, Italian Style as Maria Gennari
- Monument as Self (archive footage)
- With Love, Sophia as Self-Hostess
1965
- Operation Crossbow as Nora Van Ostamgen
- Lady L as Lady Louise Lendale / Lady L
1964
- The Fall of the Roman Empire as Lucilla
- Pour le plaisir as Self
- Marriage Italian Style as Filumena Marturano
- Sophia Loren in Rome as Self
1963
- Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow as Adelina Sbaratti / Anna Molteni / Mara
- Showman
- La Rabbia as Self (archive footage)
1962
- Boccaccio '70 as Zoe (segment "La riffa")
- Lykke og krone
- Five Miles to Midnight as Lisa Macklin
- The Condemned of Altona as Johanna von Gerlach
1961
- El Cid as Jimena
- The New Steve Allen Show as Self
- Madame as Catherine Hubscher
1960
- Two Women as Cesira
- It Started in Naples as Lucia Curcio
- The Millionairess as Epifania Parerga
- A Breath of Scandal as Princess Olympia
- Heller in Pink Tights as Angela Rossini
1959
- The Black Orchid as Rose Bianco
- Zwischen Glück und Krone
- That Kind of Woman as Kay
1958
- Houseboat as Cinzia Zaccardi
- Desire Under the Elms as Anna Cabot
- The Key as Stella
- Along the Coast as Self (archive footage)
1957
- Boy on a Dolphin as Phaedra
- The Pride and the Passion as Juana
- Legend of the Lost as Dita
1956
- Cinépanorama as Self
- What a Woman! as Antonietta Fallari
1955
- Was bin ich? as Self
- Scandal in Sorrento as Donna Sofia
- The Miller's Beautiful Wife as Carmela
- The Sign of Venus as Agnese
1954
- Reflets de Cannes as Self
- Attila as Honoria
- The Gold of Naples as Sofia (segment Pizza on Credit)
- Woman of the River as Nives Mongolini
- Two Nights with Cleopatra as Cleopatra / Nisca
- Too Bad She's Bad as Lina Stroppiani
- The Anatomy of Love as Ragazza
- Poverty and Nobility as Gemma
- Neapolitan Carousel as Sisina
- A Day in Court as Anna
- Pilgrim of Love as Giulietta / Beppina Delli Colli
- The Country of the Campanelli as Bonbon
1953
- The Oscars as Self
- Africa Under The Sea as Barbara Lama
- Aida as Aida
- Good Folk's Sunday as Ines
- I'll See You on the Balcony as Marisa
1952
- Girls Marked Danger as Elvira
- È arrivato l'accordatore as Amica di Giulietta
- The Dream of Zorro as Conchita
- La Favorita as Leonora
1951
- Quo Vadis as Lygia's Slave (uncredited)
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Anna Jesson
- Lebbra bianca as A girl in the boardinghouse
- Anna as Vittorio's assistant (uncredited)
- Il mago per forza as La Sposa
- It's Him!... Yes! Yes! as Odalisca
- Il padrone del vapore as Una ballerinetta
- Milano miliardaria as Una commessa del bar
- Io sono il capataz as Segretaria del Dittatore (uncredited)
1950
- What's My Line? as Self
- Tototarzan as Una tarzanide (uncredited)
- The Promise as Un popolana alla festa di Piedigrotta
- Cuori sul mare as Una ragazza al ristorante
- Le sei mogli di Barbablù as Ragazza rapita (uncredited)
1948
- Bambi as Self (archive footage)
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self