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Sophia Loren
Sofia Costanza Brigida Villani Scicolone, known professionally as Sophia Loren, is an Italian actress, active in her native country and the United States. With a career spanning over 70 years, she is one of the last surviving major stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema.
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entertainment · Italian actress (born 1934) · actor · model · singer · autobiographer · beauty pageant contestant · film actor · voice actor · also Sophia Loren, Sofia Loren, Sofia Scicolone, Sofia Villani Scicolone, Sophia Villani Scicolone, Sofia Costanza Brigida Villani Scicolon
Born 20 September 1934 · Q43252
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2026· 1 entry
2024· 4 entries
The Guardian: Happy 90th birthday Sophia Loren! Her greatest films – ranked
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Snopes rated the claim “Sophia Loren said in 1965, "I'd rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0."” Incorrect Attribution.
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Released album “Presenting Sophia Loren (The Duke Velvet Edition)”.
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Snopes rated the claim “Sophia Loren said in 1965, "I'd rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size zero."” Incorrect Attribution.
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2023· 3 entries
Snopes.com rated the claim “An image shared on social media in November 2023 authentically showed actor Sophia Loren holding an image of the Israeli flag.” Fake.
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Snopes rated the claim “Sophia Loren once said, "Everything you see I owe to spaghetti."” Unproven.
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On 24 September 2023, Loren received emergency surgery following fractures to her hip and femur sustained from a fall at her home in Switzerland.
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2021· 2 entries
The Guardian: Vermicelli alla Sophia Loren: Rachel Roddy’s recipe for pasta with parsley pesto | A kitchen in Rome
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Received AARP Best Actress and AWFJ Grand Dame awards for her role
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2020· 5 entries
The Guardian: The Life Ahead review – Sophia Loren's commanding comeback
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The Guardian: The Life Ahead review – Sophia Loren serves up some grandmother courage
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The Guardian: Sophia Loren: 'The body changes. The mind does not'
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The Guardian: Cary Grant never proposed to me on set, says Sophia Loren
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The Guardian: Sophia Loren returns to movies aged 86
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2019· 3 entries
The Guardian: Frozen in Time: Sophia Loren, London, June 1960
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Awarded European Cultural Award (2019).
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The Guardian: From the archive: Anthony Burgess falls for Sophia Loren, in 1984
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2017· 1 entry
The Guardian: ‘We were two giggling girls’: the day I had coffee with Sophia Loren
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2016· 1 entry
The Guardian: The day I learned about Charlie Chaplin's bizarre directing style with Marlon Brando and Sophia Loren
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2013· 2 entries
Released album “Goodness, Gracious! - A Musical Portrait of Sophia Loren”.
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The Supreme Court of Italy cleared her of the charges in a separate decades-long dispute over the tax she should have paid on her 1974 earnings
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2012· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Saint Agatha (2012).
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2010· 3 entries
Awarded Praemium Imperiale (2010).
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Loren played her own mother in a two-part Italian television miniseries about her early life, directed by Vittorio Sindoni with Margareth Madè as Loren, entitled La mia casa è piena di specchi (My House Is Full of Mirror
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Loren crowned the 71st Miss Italia pageant winner
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2009· 2 entries
Loren stated on Larry King Live that Fellini had planned to direct her in a film shortly before his death in 1993
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After five years off the set and 14 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
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2003· 1 entry
Released album “Serge Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf / Jean-Pascal Beintus: Wolf Tracks”.
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2001· 3 entries
Awarded Telegatto for career (2001).
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As president of the jury for the 61st edition of the pageant
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Loren received a Special Grand Prix of the Americas Award at the Montreal World Film Festival for her body of work
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1999· 2 entries
The American Film Institute named Loren among the greatest female stars of American film history
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The American Film Institute (AFI) named her one of the greatest stars of American film history; as of 2026, she is the last remaining living entrant from the AFI lists
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1998· 1 entry
Won Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement (1998).
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1997· 1 entry
Was awarded an Honorable Prize for contribution to cinema
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (1996).
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1995· 2 entries
Won Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award (1995).
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Released album “The Films, the Voice, the Body”.
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1994· 1 entry
A Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs, California, Walk of Stars was dedicated to her
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1992· 1 entry
Released album “Le Canzoni di Sophia Loren”.
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1991· 5 entries
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1991).
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Awarded César Award (1991).
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Awarded Academy Honorary Award (1991).
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Received the Academy Honorary Award for lifetime achievements
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Loren received an Academy Honorary Award, which described her as "One of the genuine treasures of world cinema who, in a career rich with memorable performances, has added permanent luster to our art form
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1984· 1 entry
As Angela Channing's half-sister Francesca Gioberti, negotiations fell through at the last moment and the role went to Gina Lollobrigida instead
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1982· 1 entry
While in Italy, Loren made headlines after serving 17 days in prison on tax evasion charges
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1981· 2 entries
Turned down the role of Alexis Carrington in the television series Dynasty
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Became the first female celebrity to launch her own perfume, 'Sophia', and a brand of eyewear soon followed
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1980· 1 entry
After the international success of the biography Sophia Loren: Living and Loving, Her Own Story by A
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1978· 1 entry
Won her fourth Golden Globe for "world film favorite"
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1976· 2 entries
At his deathbed, stating that she forgave him but had never forgotten his abandonment of her mother
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Loren met her father three times, at age five, age seventeen and in 1976 at his deathbed, stating that she forgave him but had never forgotten his abandonment of her mother.
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1974· 9 entries
“Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“My philosophy is that it's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe and not to explore at all.”
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“Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.”
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“Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.”
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“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.”
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“After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.”
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1965· 2 entries
Became French citizens after their application was approved by then French Prime Minister Georges Pompidou
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Received a second Academy Award nomination for her performance in Marriage Italian-Style opposite Marcello Mastroianni
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1963· 2 entries
Released album “Poesie di Salvatore di Giacomo”.
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Released ep “Donne-moi ma chance”.
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1962· 4 entries
Awarded Academy Awards (1962).
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Actress for Two Women (1962).
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To escape bigamy charges, but continued to live together
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Loren's sister Maria married the youngest son of Benito Mussolini, Romano, with whom she had two daughters, Alessandra, a former MP and MEP, and Elisabetta
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1961· 3 entries
Awarded Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for Two Women (1961).
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Awarded David di Donatello for Best Actress (1961).
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And 1964, her career reached its pinnacle when she received $1 million to appear in El Cid and The Fall of the Roman Empire
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1960· 2 entries
Loren starred in Vittorio De Sica's Two Women, a stark, gritty story of a mother who is trying to protect her 12-year-old daughter in war-torn Italy
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Released album “Peter and Sophia”.
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1954· 1 entry
And La Bella Mugnaia (1955) became the first of many films in which Loren co-starred with Marcello Mastroianni
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1950· 1 entry
When she was 15 and he was 37, and they soon began an affair
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1938· 1 entry
Loren's parents had another child together, her sister Maria, in 1938.
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1934· 3 entries
In the Clinica Regina Margherita in Rome, the daughter of Romilda Villani (1910–1991) and Riccardo Scicolone Murillo (1907–1976)
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Born 1934-09-20.
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Sofia Costanza Brigida Villani Scicolone was born on September 20, 1934, in the Clinica Regina Margherita in Rome, the daughter of Romilda Villani (1910–1991) and Riccardo Scicolone Murillo (1907–1976).
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