![]() ![]() DeMille Award), a BAFTA Award, a Laurel Award, a Grammy Award, the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival and the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival. She has won five special Golden Globes (including the Cecil B. ![]() She holds the record for having earned seven David di Donatello Awards for Best Actress: Two Women Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963) Marriage Italian Style (1964, for which she was nominated for a second Oscar) Sunflower (1970) The Voyage (1974) A Special Day (1977) and The Life Ahead (2020). Loren's performance as Cesira in the film Two Women (1961) directed by Vittorio De Sica won her the Academy Award for Best Actress, making her the first actor to win an Oscar for a non-English-language performance. During the 1950s, she starred in films as a sexually emancipated persona and was one of the best known sex symbols of the time. Her film appearances around this time include The Pride and the Passion, Houseboat, and It Started in Naples. She appeared in several bit parts and minor roles in the early part of the decade, until her five-picture contract with Paramount in 1956 launched her international career. Loren is also the only remaining living person to appear on AFI's list of the 50 greatest stars of American film history, positioned 21st.Įncouraged to enroll in acting lessons after entering a beauty pageant, Loren began her film career at age sixteen in 1950. She was named by the American Film Institute as one of the greatest stars of Classical Hollywood cinema and as of 2023, is one of the last surviving major stars from the era. Sofia Costanza Brigida Villani Scicolone ( Italian: born 20 September 1934), known professionally as Sophia Loren ( / l ə ˈ r ɛ n/ lə- REN, Italian: ), is an Italian actress. ![]()
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