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Sophia Loren
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…
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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.
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2026
Vittorio De Sica: Staging Life
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2025
Quelli che il cinema
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2024
Ciao Marcello - Mastroianni l'antidivo
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2024
Brasiliana: The Black Musical That Introduced Brazil to the World
Movie Herself (archive footage)
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2023
L'Âge d'or de la pub
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2023
Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields
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2022
Sophia!
Movie Sé stessa
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2021
We Are Cinema
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- 2021
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2021
Morceaux de Cannes
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2021
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
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2021
What Would Sophia Loren Do?
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2020
The Life Ahead
Movie Madame Rosa
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2020
Beautiful Like a Poem
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2019
Claudia Cardinale, la créature du secret
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2019
Sophia Loren, a special destiny
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2019
Untouchable
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- 2019
- 2018
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2016
Sophia Loren: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival
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2015
Behind the White Glasses
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2015
Marcello Mastroianni, the Ideal Italian
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2015
Tab Hunter Confidential
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2014
Great Women: Sophia on Loren
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2014
Human Voice
Movie Angela
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2014
I Am Divine
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2013
Mademoiselle C
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2013
Talking Pictures
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2012
Girlfriend in a Coma
Movie Mara (archive footage) (uncredited)
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2011
Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane
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- 2011
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2011
Hollywood Invasion
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- 2010
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2010
1960
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2010
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
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2009
Nine
Movie Mamma
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2009
Vittorio D.
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2009
Hollywood sul Tevere
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2007
Sophia: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
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