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Sophia Loren

Sophia Loren

Acting

Born September 20, 1934, Rome, Lazio, Italy

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

Appearances as themselves (70)
  • 2026Vittorio De Sica: Staging Life — Self (Archive Footage)
  • Quelli che il cinema — Self
  • 2024Brasiliana: The Black Musical That Introduced Brazil to the World — Herself (archive footage)
  • 2024Ciao Marcello - Mastroianni l'antidivo — Self (archive footage)
  • 2023L'Âge d'or de la pub — Self (archive footage)
  • Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields — Self (archive footage)
  • 2021Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita — Self (archive footage)
  • 2021We Are Cinema — Self (archive footage)
  • 2021What Would Sophia Loren Do? — Self
  • 2020Beautiful Like a Poem — Self (archive footage)
  • 2019Claudia Cardinale, la créature du secret — Self (archive footage)
  • 2019Gina, Sophia, Claudia, trois symboles de la féminité à l'italienne — Self
  • 2019Sophia Loren, a special destiny — Self (archive footage)
  • 2019Untouchable — Self (archive footage)
  • 2016Sophia Loren: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival — Self - Guest
  • 2015Behind the White Glasses — Self
  • 2015Marcello Mastroianni, the Ideal Italian — Self
  • 2015Tab Hunter Confidential — Self (archive)
  • 2014Great Women: Sophia on Loren — Self
  • 2014I Am Divine — Self (archive)
  • 2013Mademoiselle C — Self
  • Talking Pictures — Self (archive footage)
  • 2011Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane — Self (archive footage)
  • 2011Hollywood Invasion — Self (archive footage)
  • 20101960 — Self (archive footage)
  • 2010Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff — Self (archive footage)
  • 2010L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo — Self
  • 2009Vittorio D. — Self (archive footage)
  • 2007A Prince Called Toto — Self
  • 2007Sophia: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow — Self
  • 2006Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess — Self - Actress (archive footage)
  • 2006Marcello, una vita dolce — Self (archive footage)
  • 2004Looking for Sophia — Self (archive footage)
  • 2003Charlie Chaplin: The Forgotten Years — Self
  • 2002Heart of the Festival — Self (archive footage)
  • V Graham Norton — Self
  • Beckmann — Self
  • Leute heute — Self
  • The View — Self
  • 1990Anthony Quinn: An Original — Self (archive footage)
  • 1988Michael Jackson: The Legend Continues — Self
  • 1985Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema — Self
  • Goldene Kamera — Self
  • Champs-Elysées — Self
  • Wogan — Self
  • Wetten, dass..? — Self
  • 1977Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti — Self (archive footage)
  • Cérémonie des César — Self - President
  • Music & Guests — Self
  • Les Rendez-vous du dimanche — Self
  • Numéro un — Self
  • Spécial cinéma — Self
  • Film '72 — Self
  • 1967Lionpower from MGM — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • 1967Monument — Self (archive footage)
  • 1967With Love, Sophia — Self - Hostess
  • Pour le plaisir — Self
  • 1964Sophia Loren in Rome — Self
  • 1963La Rabbia — Self (archive footage)
  • 1962Lykke og krone — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • The New Steve Allen Show — Self
  • 1959Zwischen Glück und Krone — Self (archive footage)
  • 1958Along the Coast — Self (archive footage)
  • Cinépanorama — Self
  • Was bin ich? — Self
  • Reflets de Cannes — Self
  • The Oscars — Self
  • What's My Line? — Self
  • Bambi — Self (archive footage)
  • The Ed Sullivan Show — Self
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