
(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 two Oscars, seven Golden Globe Awards, a Grammy Award
, a BAFTA Award and a Laurel Award
.
I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
I was not intrigued with the accouterments of success and fame, the furs, jewels, expensive automobiles and mansions... I can assure you that these things were not on my mind when I sat spellbound in that Pozzuoli movie house. It was what these performers on the screen were doing, not what they received for doing it.
I was blessed with a sense of my own destiny. I have never sold myself short. I have never judged myself by other people’s standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself. So failure or reversal does not bring out resentment in me because I cannot blame others for any misfortune that befalls me.
My philosophy is that it's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe and not to explore at all.
A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.
Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will have truly defeated age.
Being beautiful can never hurt, but you have to have more. You have to sparkle, you have to be fun, you have to make your brain work if you have one.
(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 two Oscars, 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), and 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. DeMille
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 1994, she was awarded with the Honorary Golden Bear
at the 44th Berlin International Film Festival
. 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.
Early life
Loren was born in the Clinica Regina Margherita in Rome, daughter of Romilda Villani (1914–1991) and Riccardo Scicolone, a construction engineer. Scicolone refused to marry Villani, leaving her, a piano teacher and aspiring actress, without support. Loren's parents had another child together, her sister Anna Maria Villani Scicolone
, in 1938. Loren has two younger paternal half-brothers, Giuliano and Giuseppe. Romilda, Loren, and Maria lived with Loren's grandmother in Pozzuoli, near Naples, to survive.
During World War II
, the harbour and munitions plant in Pozzuoli was a frequent bombing target of the Allies. During one raid, as Loren ran to the shelter, she was struck by shrapnel and wounded in the chin. After that, the family moved to Naples, where they were taken in by distant relatives.
After the war, Loren and her family returned to Pozzuoli. Grandmother Luisa opened a pub in their living room, selling homemade cherry liquor. Villani played the piano, Maria sang and Loren waited on tables and washed dishes. The place was very popular with the American GIs stationed nearby.
When she was 14 years old, Loren entered a beauty contest in Naples and, while not winning, was selected as one of the finalists. Later she enrolled in acting class and was selected as an extra in Mervyn LeRoy
's 1951 film Quo Vadis
, launching her career as a motion picture actress.
Beginnings
After being credited professionally as Sofia Lazzaro, she began using her current stage name in 1952's La Favorita. Her first starring role was in Aida(1953), for which she received critical acclaim. After playing the lead role in Two Nights with Cleopatra
(1953), her breakthrough role was in The Gold of Naples
(1954), directed by Vittorio De Sica
. Too Bad She's Bad
, also released in 1954, became the first of many films in which Loren co-starred with Marcello Mastroianni
. Over the next three years she acted in many films such as Scandal in Sorrento (1955) and Lucky to Be a Woman
(1956). In 1957, Loren's star had begun to rise in Hollywood, with the films Boy on a Dolphin
(her U.S. film debut), Legend of the Lost
with John Wayne
, and The Pride and the Passion
in which she starred opposite Cary Grant
and Frank Sinatra
.
International fame

in 1958. Among her films at this time were Desire Under the Elms
with Anthony Perkins
, based upon the Eugene O'Neill
play; Houseboat
, a romantic comedy co-starring Cary Grant
; and George Cukor
's Heller in Pink Tights
, in which she appeared as a blonde for the first time.
In 1961, she starred in Vittorio De Sica
's Two Women
, a stark, gritty story of a mother who is raped while trying to protect her daughter in war-torn Italy. Originally cast as the daughter, Loren fought against type and was re-cast as the mother (actress Eleonora Brown
would portray the daughter). Loren's performance earned her many awards, including the Cannes Film Festival
's best performance prize, and an Academy Award for Best Actress
, the first major Academy Award for a non-English-language performance and to an Italian actress. She won 22 international awards for Two Women. The film proved to be extremely well accepted by the critics and it was a huge commercial success.
Loren is known for her sharp wit and insight. One of her most frequently-quoted sayings is her quip about her famously-voluptuous figure: "Everything you see, I owe to spaghetti." However, on the 20 December 2009, episode of CBS News Sunday Morning
, Loren denied ever saying the line.
During the 1960s, Loren was one of the most popular actresses in the world, and she continued to make films in both the U.S. and Europe, acting with leading male stars. In 1964, her career reached its zenith when she received $1 million to act in The Fall of the Roman Empire
. In 1965, she received a second Academy Award nomination for her performance in Marriage Italian-Style
.
Among Loren's best-known films of this period are Samuel Bronston's
epic production
of El Cid (1961)
with Charlton Heston
, The Millionairess
(1960) with Peter Sellers
, It Started in Naples
(1960) with Clark Gable
, Vittorio De Sica's triptych Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
(1963) with Marcello Mastroianni, Peter Ustinov
's Lady L
(1965) with Paul Newman
, the 1966 classic Arabesque
with Gregory Peck
, and Charlie Chaplin
's final film, A Countess from Hong Kong
(1967) with Marlon Brando
.
Loren received four Golden Globe Awards between 1964 and 1977 as "World Film Favorite - Female."
Mid-career and musical recordings
Once she became a mother, Loren worked less. Most of her acting during the next two decades was in Italian features. During the 1970s, she was paired with Richard Burton in the last De Sica-directed movie, The Voyage(1974), and a remake of the film Brief Encounter
(1974). In 1976 she starred in The Cassandra Crossing
, a disaster film
featuring such veteran stars as Richard Harris
, Martin Sheen
, and Ava Gardner
. She also co-starred with Marcello Mastroianni in Ettore Scola's A Special Day
(1977), an Italian film for which she was nominated for several awards. Loren then starred in the Hollywood thrillers Brass Target
(1978), set during World War II, and Firepower (1979), that had a moderate success.
In 1980, Loren portrayed herself, as well as her mother, in a made-for-television biopic adaptation of her autobiography titled Sophia Loren: Her Own Story. Actresses Ritza Brown and Chiara Ferrari played Loren at younger ages. In 1981, she became the first female celebrity to launch her own perfume, Sophia, and a brand of eyewear followed soon thereafter. She made headlines in 1982 when she served an 18-day prison sentence in Italy on tax evasion
charges, a fact that didn't damage her career or popularity. In fact, Bill Moore, then employed at Pickle Packers International advertising department, sent her a pink pickle-shaped trophy for being "the prettiest lady in the prettiest pickle". She acted infrequently during the 1980s and turned down the role of Alexis Carrington in 1981 on the TV series Dynasty
and although she was set to star in thirteen episodes of CBS' Falcon Crest
in 1984 as Angela Channing's half-sister Francesca Gioberti, negotiations fell through at the last moment and the role instead went to Gina Lollobrigida
. Sophia, preferring to devote more time to raising her sons. In 1988 she starred in the miniseries The Fortunate Pilgrim
.
Loren has also recorded well over two dozen songs throughout her career, including a best-selling album of comedic songs with Peter Sellers
; reportedly, she had to fend off his romantic advances. It was partly owing to Sellers' infatuation with Loren that he split with his first wife, Anne Howe. Loren has made it clear to numerous biographers that Sellers' affections were reciprocated only platonically
. This collaboration was covered in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
where actress Sonia Aquino
portrayed Loren. It is said that the song "Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)
" by Peter Sarstedt
was inspired by Loren.
Later career
In 1991, Loren received the Academy Honorary Awardfor her contributions to world cinema
and was declared "one of the world cinema's treasures." In 1995, she received the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award
.
She presented Federico Fellini
with his Honorary Oscar. In 2009 Loren stated on Larry King Live
that Fellini had planned to direct her in a film shortly before his death in 1993.
Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, Loren was selective about choosing her films and ventured into various areas of business, including cook books, eyewear, jewellery and perfume.
She received a Golden Globe nomination for her performance in Robert Altman
's film Ready to Wear
(1994), co-starring Julia Roberts
.
In the comedy Grumpier Old Men
(1995), Loren played a femme fatale
opposite Walter Matthau
, Jack Lemmon
, and Ann-Margret
. The film was a box-office success and became Loren's biggest U.S hit in years.
In 2001, Loren received a Special Grand Prix of the Americas Award at the Montreal World Film Festival
for her body of work. She filmed two projects in Canada during this time: the independent film Between Strangers
(2002), directed by her son Edoardo and co-starring Mira Sorvino
, and the television miniseries Lives of the Saints
(2004).
In 2009, after five years off the set and fourteen years since she starred in a prominent US theatrical film, Loren starred in Rob Marshall
's film version of Nine
, based on the Broadway
musical that tells the story of a director whose midlife crisis causes him to struggle to complete his latest film; he is forced to balance the influences of numerous formative women in his life, including his deceased mother. Loren was Marshall's first and only choice for the role. The film also stars Daniel Day-Lewis
, Penelope Cruz
, Kate Hudson
, Marion Cotillard
, and Nicole Kidman
. As a part of the cast she received her first nomination for a Screen Actors Guild Award.
In 2010, Loren played her own mother in a two-part Italian television miniseries about her early life, directed by Vittorio Sindoni, entitled La Mia Casa È Piena di Specchi (translated My House Is Full of Mirrors), based on the memoir written by her sister Maria.
Personal life
Loren's primary residence has been in Geneva, Switzerland
since late 2006. She also owns homes in Naples
and Rome
In September 1999, Loren filed a lawsuit against 76 adult websites for posting altered nude photos of her on the internet.
Loren is a huge fan of the football club S.S.C. Napoli
. In May 2007, when the team was third in Serie B
, she told the Gazzetta dello Sport that she would do a striptease if the team won.
Loren posed scantily-clad at 72 for the 2007 Pirelli Calendar
along with such actresses as Penelope Cruz
and Hilary Swank
.
Marriage and family
Loren first met Carlo Pontiin 1950 when she was 15 and he was 37. They married on 17 September 1957. However, Ponti was still officially married to his first wife Giuliana under Italian law because Italy did not recognize divorce at that time. The couple had their marriage annulled in 1962 to escape bigamy
charges. In 1965, Ponti obtained a divorce from Giuliana in France, allowing him to marry Loren on 9 April 1966. They later became French citizens after their application was approved by then French President Georges Pompidou
.
The couple had two sons: Carlo Ponti Jr.
(born 29 December 1968) and Edoardo Ponti
(born 6 January 1973).
Loren remained married to Carlo Ponti until his death on 10 January 2007 of pulmonary complications.
When asked in a November 2009 interview if she is ever likely to marry again, Loren replied "No, never again. It would be impossible to love anyone else."
Her daughters-in-law are Sasha Alexander
and Andrea Meszaros. Loren has three grandchildren: Lucia Ponti (born 12 May 2006), Vittorio Ponti (born 3 April 2007). and Leonardo Fortunato (born 20 December 2010).
Filmography
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1950 | I Am the Capataz | Secretary of the Dictator | |
1950 | Barbablu's Six Wives | Girl kidnapped | |
1950 | Tototarzan | A tarzanide | |
1950 | I Devote, Thee | A popular to the party of piedigrotta | |
1950 | Hearts at Sea | Extra | Uncredited |
1951 | White Leprosy | A girl in the boardinghouse | |
1951 | Owner of the Vapor | Ballerinetta | |
1951 | Milan Billionaire | Extra | Uncredited |
1951 | Magician for Force | The bride | |
1951 | Quo Vadis Quo Vadis (1951 film) Quo Vadis is a 1951 epic film made by MGM. It was directed by Mervyn LeRoy and produced by Sam Zimbalist, from a screenplay by John Lee Mahin, S. N. Behrman and Sonya Levien, adapted from Henryk Sienkiewicz's classic 1896 novel Quo Vadis. The music score was by Miklós Rózsa and the cinematography... |
Lygia's slave | Uncredited |
1951 | It's Him!... Yes! Yes! | Odalisca | |
1951 | Anna Anna (1951 film) Anna is a 1951 Italian drama film directed by Alberto Lattuada and starring by the same trio as Bitter Rice: Silvana Mangano as Anna, the sinner who becomes a nun; Raf Vallone as Andrea, the rich man who loves her; and Vittorio Gassman as Vittorio, the wicked waiter who sets Anna on a dangerous... |
Night club assistant | Uncredited |
1952 | And Arrived the Accordatore | Amica di Giulietta | |
1952 | I Dream of Zorro | Conchita | As Sofia Scicolone |
1952 | Leonora | ||
1953 | Bonbon | ||
1953 | Pilgrim of Love | ||
1953 | We Find Ourselves in Arcade | Marisa | |
1953 | Two Nights with Cleopatra Two Nights with Cleopatra Two Nights with Cleopatra is a 1953 comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Sophia Loren.-Cast:* Sophia Loren - Cleopatra / Nisca* Alberto Sordi - Cesarino* Ettore Manni - Marcantonio* Paul Muller - Tortul... |
Cleopatra/Nisca | |
1953 | Girls Marked Danger | Elvira | |
1953 | Good Folk's Sunday | Ines | |
1953 | Aida Aida (1953 film) Aida is a 1953 Italian film version of the opera Aida by Giuseppe Verdi. It was directed by Clemente Fracassi and produced by Gregor Rabinovitch and Federico Teti. The screenplay was adapted by Fracassi, Carlo Castelli, Anna Gobbi and Giorgio Salviucci from the libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni... |
Aida | |
1953 | Africa Under the Seas | Barbara Lama | |
1954 | Neapolitan Carousel Neapolitan Carousel Neapolitan Carousel is a 1954 Italian comedy film directed by Ettore Giannini. It was entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Léonide Massine - Antonio 'Pulcinella' Petito* Achille Millo - Pulcinella's son* Agostino Salvietti - Prompter... |
Sisina | |
1954 | Anna | ||
1954 | |||
1954 | Poverty and Nobility Poverty and Nobility Poverty and Nobility is a 1954 comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Totò.-Cast:* Totò - Felice Sciosciammocca* Liana Billi - Concetta* Leo Brandi* Franco Caruso* Gianni Cavalieri - Gaetano* Carlo Croccolo - Luigino* Dino Curcio... |
Gemma | |
1954 | Sofia | Segment "Pizze a Credito" | |
1954 | Attila Attila (1954 film) Attila is a 1954 Franco-Italian film co-production, directed by Pietro Francisci and produced by Dino De Laurentiis. Based on the life of Attila the Hun, it stars Anthony Quinn as Attila and Sophia Loren as Honoria, with Henri Vidal, Irene Papas, Ettore Manni and Christian Marquand. Scott Marlowe ... |
Honoria | |
1954 | Too Bad She's Bad Too Bad She's Bad Too Bad She's Bad is a 1954 Italian comedy directed by Alessandro Blasetti. It stars Sophia Loren and is based on Alberto Moravia's story, Fanatico, from his Racconti Romani.-Cast:* Vittorio De Sica - Vittorio Stroppiani... |
Lina Stroppiani | |
1955 | Agnese Tirabassi | ||
1955 | Carmela | ||
1955 | Nives Mongolini | ||
1955 | Scandal in Sorrento | Donna Sofia | |
1956 | Lucky to Be a Woman Lucky to Be a Woman Lucky to Be a Woman is a 1956 Italian comedy film directed by Alessandro Blasetti starring Sophia Loren and Charles Boyer.-Cast:* Sophia Loren - Antonietta Fallari* Charles Boyer - Count Gregorio Sennetti* Marcello Mastroianni - Corrado Betti... |
Antonietta Fallari | |
1957 | Boy on a Dolphin Boy on a Dolphin Boy on a Dolphin is a 1957 20th Century Fox romantic film set in Greece and made in CinemaScope. It was directed by Jean Negulesco and produced by Samuel G. Engel from a screenplay by Ivan Moffat and Dwight Taylor, based on the novel by David Divine.... |
Phaedra | |
1957 | Juana | ||
1957 | Legend of the Lost Legend of the Lost Legend of the Lost is a 1957 Italy/U.S. adventure film starring John Wayne, Sophia Loren, and Rossano Brazzi. The location shooting for the film took place near Tripoli, Libya.-Plot:... |
Dita | |
1958 | Desire Under the Elms Desire Under the Elms (film) Desire Under the Elms is a 1958 American film version of the 1924 play Desire Under the Elms written by Eugene O'Neill. The film was directed by Delbert Mann from a screenplay by O'Neill and Irwin Shaw. The cast included Sophia Loren as Abbie , Anthony Perkins as Eben, Burl Ives as Ephraim, Frank... |
Anna Cabot | |
1958 | Stella | ||
1958 | Rose Bianco | Volpi Cup Volpi Cup The Volpi Cups are the principal awards given to actors at the Venice Film Festival. Formal acting awards were introduced in the second festival . Initially they were called Great Gold Medals of the National Fascist Association for Entertainment. The name Volpi Cup was introduced the following year... |
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1958 | Houseboat Houseboat (film) Houseboat is a 1958 romantic comedy film starring Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer, Paul Petersen, Charles Herbert and Mimi Gibson. The movie was directed by Melville Shavelson, who also directed the original 1968 version of Yours, Mine and Ours.... |
Cinzia Zaccardi | |
1959 | That Kind of Woman That Kind of Woman That Kind of Woman is a 1959 American drama film directed by Sidney Lumet, who was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 9th Berlin International Film Festival. It stars Sophia Loren. The screenplay by Walter Bernstein, based on a short story by Robert Lowry , is highly reminiscent of the 1938 film... |
Kay | |
1960 | Heller in Pink Tights Heller in Pink Tights Heller In Pink Tights is a 1960 Technicolor western film adapted from Louis L'Amour's novel, Heller with a Gun. It stars Sophia Loren and Anthony Quinn and was directed by George Cukor.... |
Angela Rossini | |
1960 | It Started in Naples It Started in Naples It Started in Naples is an American romantic comedy film made by Paramount Pictures and released in August 1960. It was directed by Melville Shavelson and produced by Jack Rose from a screenplay by Suso Cecchi d'Amico based on the story by Michael Pertwee and Jack Davies... |
Lucia Curio | Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy |
1960 | Epifania Parerga | ||
1960 | Princess Olympia | ||
1960 | Two Women Two Women Two Women is a 1960 Italian film directed by Vittorio De Sica. It tells the story of a woman trying to protect her young daughter from the horrors of war. The film stars Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Eleonora Brown, Carlo Ninchi and Andrea Checchi... |
Cesira | |
1961 | Jimena | ||
1962 | Madame Sans-Gêne Madame Sans-Gêne (film) Madame Sans-Gêne is a 1962 Spanish-Italian-French film co-production distributed by Embassy Pictures. It was directed by Christian-Jaque and adapted from the 1893 play by Victorien Sardou and Émile Moreau.... |
Catherine Hubscher, said "Madame Sans-Gêne" | |
1962 | Boccaccio '70 Boccaccio '70 Boccaccio '70 is a 1962 Italian portmanteau film directed by Mario Monicelli, Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti and Vittorio de Sica, from an idea by Cesare Zavattini... |
Zoe | Segment "La Riffa" |
1963 | Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow | Adelina Sbaratti/Anna Molteni/Mara | David di Donatello for Best Actress David di Donatello for Best Actress -Albo d'oro:1956Gina Lollobrigida - La donna più bella del mondo1958*Anna Magnani - Wild Is the Wind1959*Anna Magnani - Nella città l'inferno1961*Sophia Loren - La ciociara1963... |
1964 | Lucilla | ||
1964 | Marriage Italian-Style Marriage Italian-Style Marriage Italian-Style is a 1964 film which tells the story of a successful businessman who kept a woman as his mistress for several years and now plans to marry another woman until his mistress pretends to be on her deathbed to induce him to marry her before she dies... |
Filumena Marturano | |
1965 | Operation Crossbow Operation Crossbow (film) Operation Crossbow is a British 1965 spy thriller and World War II film, made from a story from Duilio Coletti and Vittoriano Petrilli and filmed at MGM-British Studios... |
Nora | |
1965 | Lady L Lady L Lady L is a 1965 comedy film based on the novel by Romain Gary and directed by Peter Ustinov. The film stars Sophia Loren, Paul Newman, David Niven and Cecil Parker, and it focuses on an elderly Corsican lady recalls the loves of her life, including a Parisian aristocrat and an... |
Lady Louise Lendale/Lady L | |
1966 | Judith | Judith | |
1966 | Arabesque Arabesque (film) Arabesque is a 1966 thriller starring Gregory Peck and Sophia Loren. The movie is based on Gordon Cotler's novel The Cypher and directed by Stanley Donen.-Plot:Professor David Pollock is an expert in ancient hieroglyphics at Oxford University... |
Yasmin Azir | |
1967 | Natasha | ||
1967 | More Than a Miracle More than a Miracle More Than a Miracle is a 1967 film also titled Cinderella Italian Style and Happily Ever After. It stars Sophia Loren and Omar Sharif, Dolores del Río and has a surreal fairy tale narrative. Filmed in the countryside outside of Naples, this film had Francesco Rosi as its director, and Carlo Ponti,... |
Isabella Candeloro | |
1968 | Ghosts - Italian Style Ghosts - Italian Style Ghosts - Italian Style is a 1968 Italian comedy film directed by Renato Castellani.-Cast:* Sophia Loren - Maria Lojacono* Vittorio Gassman - Pasquale Lojacono* Mario Adorf - Alfredo Mariano* Aldo Giuffrè - Raffaele* Margaret Lee - Sayonara... |
Maria Lojacono | |
1970 | Sunflower | Giovanna | |
1971 | Lady Liberty Lady Liberty Lady Liberty may refer to:* Lady Liberty , La mortadella, 1972 French-Italian comedy* "Lady Liberty" , written by Al Jardine and Ron Altbach for the Beach Boys... |
Maddalena Ciarrapico | |
1971 | Valeria Billi | ||
1972 | Man of La Mancha Man of La Mancha (film) Man of La Mancha is a 1972 film adaptation of the Broadway musical Man of La Mancha by Dale Wasserman, with music by Mitch Leigh and lyrics by Joe Darion... |
Aldonza/Dulcinea | |
1973 | Hermana Germana | ||
1974 | Adriana de Mauro | ||
1974 | Verdict | Teresa Leoni | |
1974 | Brief Encounter Brief Encounter (1974 film) Brief Encounter is a 1974 British-Italian drama film starring Richard Burton and Sophia Loren, adapted from the play Still Life by Noel Coward. The material was previously adapted for the 1945 film Brief Encounter. Burton was cast at the last moment, after Robert Shaw dropped out. Popular Dad's... |
Anna Jesson | |
1975 | Sex Pot Sex Pot Sex Pot is a 1975 Italian comedy film directed by Giorgio Capitani.-Cast:* Sophia Loren - Pupa* Marcello Mastroianni - Charlie Colletto* Aldo Maccione - Chopin* Pierre Brice - Commissaire adjoint Salvatore Lambelli* Nazzareno Natale - Frankie Bottles... |
Pupa | |
1976 | Jennifer Rispoli Chamberlain | ||
1977 | Antoinette | ||
1978 | Blood Feud | Titina Paterno | |
1978 | Brass Target Brass Target Brass Target is a 1978 American war film, based on the novel The Algonquin Project by Frederick Nolan and directed by John Hough. It stars John Cassavetes, Robert Vaughn, George Kennedy, Patrick McGoohan and Max von Sydow.... |
Mara/cameo role | |
1978 | Angela Angela (1978 film) Angela is a 1978 film directed by Boris Sagal. It stars Sophia Loren and Steve Railsback.-Cast:*Sophia Loren as Angela Kincaid*Steve Railsback as Jean Lebrecque*John Huston as Hogan*John Vernon as Ben Kincaid*Michelle Rossignol as Coco... |
Angela Kincaid | |
1979 | Firepower Firepower (film) Firepower is a 1979 British action film directed by Michael Winner and starring Sophia Loren, James Coburn, O.J. Simpson and Eli Wallach. It was the final film in the career of actor Victor Mature.-Synopsis:... |
Adele Tasca/cameo role | |
1980 | Sophia Loren: Her Own Story | herself/Romilda Villani (her mother) | |
1984 | Aurora Aurora (1984 film) Aurora is a 1984 Italian drama film directed by Maurizio Ponzi and starring Sophia Loren, Edoardo Ponti and Daniel J. Travanti. In order to raise money for an operation for her son, a woman tells various former wealthy lovers that they are his father. Its Italian title is Qualcosa de... |
Aurora | Television film |
1986 | Courage | Marianna Miraldo | Television film |
1988 | Lucia | Television miniseries | |
1989 | Running Away Running Away "Running Away" is a single recorded by Hoobastank. It was the third single released from the band's 2001 self titled debut.The song peaked at #2 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and became the highest charting single from the album and one of Hoobastank's biggest hits. It is also featured... |
Cesira | |
1990 | Saturday, Sunday and Monday | Rosa Priore | |
1994 | Prêt-à-Porter Prêt-à-Porter (film) Prêt-à-Porter is a 1994 American satirical black comedy film co-written, directed, and produced by Robert Altman and shot during the Paris, France, Fashion Week with a host of international stars, models and designers... |
Isabella de la Fontaine | |
1995 | Grumpier Old Men Grumpier Old Men Grumpier Old Men is a 1995 romantic comedy film, and a sequel to the 1993 film Grumpy Old Men. The film stars Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret, and Sophia Loren, with Burgess Meredith, Daryl Hannah, Kevin Pollak, Katie Sagona, Ann Morgan Guilbert... |
Maria Sophia Coletta Ragetti | |
1997 | Soleil Soleil Soleil may refer to:* French for the Sun* Soleil , a 2002 album by female Japanese pop artist Watanabe Misato* Soleil , a 1971 album* Soleil , a 1997 French film by Roger Hanin... |
Maman Levy | |
2001 | Francesca e Nunziata | Francesca Montorsi | |
2002 | Between Strangers Between Strangers -Cast:*Sophia Loren as Olivia*Mira Sorvino as Natalia Bauer*Deborah Kara Unger as Catherine*Pete Postlethwaite as John*Julian Richings as Nigel*Klaus Maria Brandauer as Alexander Bauer*Malcolm McDowell as Alan Baxter*Len Doncheff as Grocery Store Owner... |
Olivia | |
2004 | Too Much Romance... It's Time for Stuffed Peppers | Maria | |
2004 | Lives of the Saints Lives of the Saints (TV miniseries) Lives of the Saints is a 2004 TV miniseries directed by Jerry Ciccoritti, written by Malcolm MacRury, and based on the 1990 novel, Lives of the Saints, by Nino Ricci... |
Teresa Innocente | |
2009 | Nine Nine (film) Nine is a 2009 musical-romantic film directed and produced by Rob Marshall. The screenplay, written by Michael Tolkin and Anthony Minghella, is based on Arthur Kopit's book for the 1982 musical of the same name, which was itself suggested by Federico Fellini's semi-autobiographical film 8½... |
Mamma | |
2010 | My House Is Full of Mirrors | Romilda Villani | |
2010 | Femina Femina Femina is a Latin noun meaning 'woman'.It is the title of five magazines:*Femina , a fortnightly women's magazine owned by the Times Group and published in India since July 1959*Femina , the first women's magazine in Indonesia... |
Pre-production | |
2011 | Todos contra Juan 2 | Herself | Argentinian television sitcom |