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Sophia Loren |
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Name: Sophia Loren
Birth Name: Sofia Villani Scicolone
Height: 5' 8''
Sex: F
Nationality: Italian
Birth Date: September 20, 1934
Birth Place: Rome, Italy
Profession: actress, model
Husband/Wife: Carlo Ponti (producer; born on December 11, 1912; married on September 17, 1957; legally married in France on April 9, 1966)
Father: Riccardo Scicolone
Mother: Romilda Villani (artist, actress; born in 1910; died on May 9, 1991)
Sister: Anna Maria Scicolone (former husband, Romano Mussolini, third son of fascist dictator Benito Mussolini)
Son: Eduardo Ponti (director; born in 1973), Carlo Ponti Jr. (conductor, pianist)
Niece: Alessandra Mussolini (actress; born in 1962)
Claim to fame: The extraordinarily beautiful actress, up against formidable odds, managed to rise from extreme poverty and obscurity in post-war Italy to stardom on both sides of the Atlantic
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- Loren and Jessica Lange have teamed up to raise awareness of children who are HIV-positive in Russia. (May 22, 2006)
- Voted the 3rd most beautiful woman of all time by 5,000 New Woman magazine readers. (2006)
- Was given honorary citizenship of Pozzuoli, the small town near Naples where she grew up in poverty before rising to international stardom. (June 23, 2005)
- Loren may have made 100 films, been an international sex symbol for decades and even voted as the world's most beautiful woman, but she doesn’t want to be called her a star – she said she just wants to be an actress. (September 2002)
- After years away, Sophia returned to the Venice Film Festival, not as just another glitter-celebrity waggling for the paparazzi, but in the role she holds dearest of all: doting mom – she was on hand Friday to promote the feature-film debut of her director son, Edoardo Ponti. (August 31, 2002)
- British men need smart no more from Gwyneth Paltrow's barb that they were wimps for not asking her out as Loren has come to their rescue.
- Sophia Loren and Marlon Brando co-starred in A COUNTESS FROM HONG KONG, a 1967 comedy.
- Franco Zeffirelli originally proposed LA BISBETICA DOMATA (1967) as a vehicle for Loren and Marcello Mastroianni.
- Her bit role as a slave marked her film debut in QUO VADIS? (1951).
- Is one of only four actors (with Robert De Niro, Roberto benigni, and Benicio Del Toro) to win an Academy Award for a role primarily in a language other than English, since almost all of his dialogue is in Italian.
- Nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture at Golden Globe Awards for PRÊT-À-PORTER (1995)
- Nominated for World Film Favorite - Female at Golden Globe Awards (1977)
- Nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role at Academy Awards for MARRIAGE ITALIAN-STYLE (1965)
- Nominated for Best Motion Picture Actress - Musical/Comedy at Golden Globe Awards for MARRIAGE ITALIAN-STYLE (1965)
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