Sophia Loren
20 September 1934 – present
Sophia Loren is an Italian actress whose career spans from Italian post-war cinema to international film. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Vittorio De Sica's Two Women in 1962, the first acting Oscar given for a performance in a foreign-language film. She received an Honorary Academy Award in 1991 and continued to appear in films into her eighties.
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Life events
She was born Sofia Villani Scicolone on 20 September 1934 and grew up in Pozzuoli near Naples.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgAs a teenager she reached the finals of the 1950 contest, where she met the producer Carlo Ponti.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgVittorio De Sica's 1954 film gave her one of her first substantial screen roles.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe multi-picture deal took her to Hollywood and to English-language productions.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgA 1957 proxy marriage in Mexico was later annulled; they married again in France in 1966.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe was honoured at the 34th Academy Awards for her performance in Two Women.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgCarlo Ponti Jr. was born in Geneva in December 1968; a second son, Edoardo, followed in 1973.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe Academy recognised her career with an honorary Oscar in 1991.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHer husband of four decades died in Geneva in January 2007.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe played the lead in the 2020 film directed by her son Edoardo Ponti.
Source: en.wikipedia.org