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

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

Sophia! as Sé stessa
Belmondo: The Incorrigible

2021

We Are Cinema as Self (archive footage)
Morceaux de Cannes
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita as Self (archive footage)
What Would Sophia Loren Do? as Self
Mythos Côte d'Azur - Liebe, Luxus, Leidenschaft

2020

The Life Ahead as Madame Rosa
Beautiful Like a Poem as Self (archive footage)

2013

Talking Pictures as Self (archive footage)
Mademoiselle C as Self

2012

Girlfriend in a Coma as Mara (archive footage) (uncredited)

2011

Bert Stern - Original Madman
Hollywood Invasion as self archive footage
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
Vittorio D. as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood sul Tevere

2007

Sophia: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow as Self
A Prince Called Toto as Self

2006

Marcello, una vita dolce as Self (archive footage)
Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess as Self - Actress (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

Charlie Chaplin: The Forgotten Years as Self
Francesca and Nunziata as Francesca Montorsi

2002

V Graham Norton as Self
Heart of the Festival as Self (archive footage)
Between Strangers as Olivia
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

Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema as Self

1984

Goldene Kamera as Self
Aurora as Aurora

1982

Wogan as Self
Champs-Elysées as Self

1981

Wetten, dass..? as Self

1980

Sophia Loren: Her Own Story as Sophia Loren / Romilda Villani
SuperTotò

1979

Firepower as Adele Tasca

1978

Brass Target as Mara
Blood Feud as Titina Paterno

1977

A Special Day as Antonietta Taberi
Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti as Self (archive footage)
Angela as Angela

1976

Cérémonie des César as Self - President
Music & Guests as Self
The Cassandra Crossing as Jennifer Rispoli Chamberlain
Brief Encounter as Anna Jesson

1975

Numéro un as Self
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche 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
More Than a Miracle as Isabella Candeloro
Monument as Self (archive footage)
Ghosts, Italian Style as Maria Gennari
Lionpower from MGM as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
With Love, Sophia as Self-Hostess

1966

Arabesque as Yasmin Azir
Judith as Judith Auerbach

1965

Operation Crossbow as Nora Van Ostamgen
Lady L as Lady Louise Lendale / Lady L

1964

The Fall of the Roman Empire as Lucilla
Marriage Italian Style as Filumena Marturano
Sophia Loren in Rome as Self

1963

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow as Adelina Sbaratti / Anna Molteni / Mara
La Rabbia as Self (archive footage)
Showman

1962

Boccaccio '70 as Zoe (segment "La riffa")
Five Miles to Midnight as Lisa Macklin
The Condemned of Altona as Johanna von Gerlach
Lykke og krone

1961

El Cid as Jimena
Madame as Catherine Hubscher

1960

Two Women as Cesira
It Started in Naples as Lucia Curcio
A Breath of Scandal as Princess Olympia
The Millionairess as Epifania Parerga
Heller in Pink Tights as Angela Rossini

1959

1958

Houseboat as Cinzia Zaccardi
The Key as Stella
Desire Under the Elms as Anna Cabot
Along the Coast as Self (archive footage)

1957

1956

Cinépanorama as Self
What a Woman! as Antonietta Fallari

1955

Was bin ich? as Self
The Miller's Beautiful Wife as Carmela
Scandal in Sorrento as Donna Sofia
The Sign of Venus as Agnese

1954

Reflets de Cannes as Self
The Gold of Naples as Sofia (segment Pizza on Credit)
Attila as Honoria
Two Nights with Cleopatra as Cleopatra / Nisca
Poverty and Nobility as Gemma
The Anatomy of Love as Ragazza
Too Bad She's Bad as Lina Stroppiani
Woman of the River as Nives Mongolini
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
Aida as Aida
I'll See You on the Balcony as Marisa
Good Folk's Sunday as Ines
Africa Under The Sea as Barbara Lama

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
Anna as Vittorio's assistant (uncredited)
It's Him!... Yes! Yes! as Odalisca
Lebbra bianca as A girl in the boardinghouse
Il mago per forza as La Sposa
Milano miliardaria as Una commessa del bar
Il padrone del vapore as Una ballerinetta
Io sono il capataz as Segretaria del Dittatore (uncredited)

1950

What's My Line? as Self
Tototarzan as Una tarzanide (uncredited)
Le sei mogli di Barbablù as Ragazza rapita (uncredited)
The Promise as Un popolana alla festa di Piedigrotta
Cuori sul mare as Una ragazza al ristorante

1948

The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
Bambi as Self (archive footage)