Sophia Loren Biography (1934-)

Original name, Sofia Villani Scicolone; born September 20, 1934, in Pozzuoli,Campania, Italy; daughter of Riccardo Scicolone (a construction engineer) and Romilda Villani (a pianist); married Carlo Ponti (a producer and director),1957 (marriage annulled, 1962); remarried Ponti, 1966; children: Carlo ("Cipi"), Eduardo ("Eli"). Addresses: Agent: William Morris Agency, 151 ElCamino Dr., Beverly Hills, CA 90212.; Manager: Leonard Hirshan Management, Inc., 9171 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 530, Beverly Hills, CA 90212.; Contact: La Concordia Ranch, 1151 Hidden Valley Rd., Thousand Oaks, CA 91361; Case Postale 430, 1211 Geneve 12, Switzerland.

Nationality
Italian
Gender
Female
Occupation
Actress
Birth Details
September 20, 1934
Pozzuoli, Campania, Italy

Famous Works

  • CREDITS
  • Film Appearances
  • (As Sofia Scicolone) Lygia's slave, Quo Vadis, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1950
  • (As Sofia Scicolone) Extra, Cuori sul mare (also known as Hearts at Sea), Cine-Albatross, 1950
  • (As Sofia Scicolone) Extra, Il voto (also known as The Vote), A.R.A. Films, 1950
  • (As Sofia Scicolone) Extra, Le sei moglie di Barbarlu (also knownas Bluebeard's Seven Wives), Golden Film Production, 1950
  • (As Sofia Scicolone) Extra, Io sono il capatz, Jolly Films, 1950
  • Toto Tarzan, 1950
  • (As Sofia Lazzaro) Ballerinetta, Il padrone del vapore, 1951
  • (As Sofia Lazzaro) A girl in the boardinghouse, Lebbra bianca (also known as Brief Rapture), 1951
  • (As Sofia Scicolone) Extra, Milano Miliardaria, Mambretti Productions, 1951
  • (As Sofia Scicolone) Extra, Anna, Archway, 1951
  • (As Sofia Scicolone) Extra, Il mago per forza, Amati-Mambretti, 1951
  • (As Sofia Scicolone) Extra, Il sogno di Zorro (also known as Zorro's Dream) I.C.S. Productions, 1951
  • (As Sofia Lazzaro) Bit part, E'arrivato l'accordatore (also knownas The Piano Tuner Has Arrived), Itala/Titanus, 1951
  • (As Sofia Lazzaro) Extra, Era lui ... si, si (also known as It's Him ... Yes, Yes), Italian Amati, 1951
  • (As Sofia Lazzaro) Bit part, La favorita, M.A.S. Productions, 1952
  • Barbara, Africa sotto I mari (also known as Africa under the Seas and Woman of the Red Sea), Gala Films, 1952
  • Elvira, La tratta delle bianche (also known as Girls Marked forDanger and The White Slave Trade), Excelsa/Ponti-De Laurentiis, 1952
  • Title role, Aida, Eagle Films, 1953
  • Sisina, Neapolitan Fantasy (also known as Carosello Napoletano and Neapolitan Carousel), Archway, 1953
  • Ci troviamo in galleria (also known as We'll Meet in the Gallery), Athene-Enic Production, 1953
  • The model, Our Times (also known as Anatomy of Love and Tempi nostri), Lux/Cines, 1953
  • La domenica della buona gente (also known as Good Folks' Sunday), Trionfalcine Production, 1953
  • Lead role, Il paese dei Campanelli, Valentina Films, 1953
  • Anna, Un giorno in pretura (also known as A Day in Court),Excelsa/Documento, 1953
  • Cleopatra/Nisca, Two Nights with Cleopatra (also known as Due notti con Cleopatra), Excelsa-Rosa Production, 1953
  • Lead role, Pellegrini d'amore (also known as Pilgrim of Love), Pisorno Production, 1953
  • Honoria, Attila the Hun (also known as Attila and Attila, flagello di Dio), Archway, 1953
  • The ballerina, Miseria e nobilita (also known as Poverty and Nobility), Excelsa, 1954
  • Sofia, The Gold of Naples (also known as Every Day's a Holiday, L'or de Naples, and L'oro di Napoli), Gala Films, 1954
  • Nives Mongolini, Woman of the River (also known as La donna delfiume), Columbia, 1954
  • Lina Stroppiani, Too Bad She's Bad (also known as Peccato che sia una canaglia), Gala, 1954
  • Agnese, The Sign of Venus (also known as Il segno di Venere), Gala, 1955
  • Carmela, The Miller's Wife (also known as The Miller's Beautiful Wife and La bella mugnaia), Gala, 1955
  • Donna Sofia, Scandal in Sorrento (also known as Pane, amore e ...), Gala, 1955
  • Antoinette, Lucky to Be a Woman (also known as What a Woman! and La fortuna di essere donna), Intercontinental Films, 1955
  • Juana, The Pride and the Passion, United Artists, 1957
  • Phaedra, Boy on a Dolphin, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1957
  • Dita, Legend of the Lost, United Artists, 1957
  • Anna, Desire under the Elms, Paramount, 1958
  • Cinzia Zaccardi, Houseboat, Paramount-Scribe, 1958
  • Stella, The Key, Columbia, 1958
  • Rose Bianco, Black Orchid (also known as The Black Orchid),Paramount, 1959
  • Kay, That Kind of Woman, Paramount, 1959
  • Angela Rossini, Heller in Pink Tights, Paramount, 1960
  • Lucia Curcio, It Started in Naples, Paramount, 1960
  • Princess Olympia, A Breath of Scandal (also known as Olympia), Paramount, 1960
  • Epifania Parerga, The Millionairess, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1960
  • Cesira, Two Women (also known as La ciociara and Paysanne aux pieds nus), Gala Films, 1961
  • Chimene, El Cid, Rank Organization, 1961
  • Catherine Huebscher, Madame (also known as Madame Sans-Gene), Embassy/Twentieth Century-Fox, 1961
  • Zoe, "The Raffle" (also known as "La Riffa"), Boccaccio '70, Embassy/Twentieth Century-Fox, 1961
  • Johanna, The Condemned of Altona (also known as I sequestrati di Altona and Les sequestres d'Altona), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1962
  • Lykke og krone, 1962
  • Herself, Showman (documentary), 1963
  • Lisa Macklin, Le couteau dans la plaie (also known as Five Miles to Midnight, Il coltello nella piaga, La terza dimensione, and La troisieme dimension), DEAR/Mercury/Filmsonor, 1963
  • Adelina/Anna/Mara, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (also known as Hier, aujourd'hui, et demain and Ieri, oggi, domani), Embassy/Paramount, 1963
  • Lucilla, The Fall of the Roman Empire, Rank, 1964
  • Filumena Marturano, Marriage, Italian Style (also known as Mariage a l'italienne and Matrimonio all'italiana), Embassy/Paramount,1964
  • Herself, Visitando a las estrellas (documentary), Julian de la Film, 1964
  • Nora, Operation Crossbow (also known as Code Name: Operation Crossbow and The Great Spy Mission), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Carlo Ponti, 1965
  • Title role, Lady L, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1965
  • Title role, Judith (also known as Conflict), Paramount, 1965
  • The Love Goddesses (also known as The Love Goddesses: A Historyof Sex in the Cinema), 1965
  • Yasmin Azir, Arabesque, Rank/Universal, 1966
  • Countess Natasha Alexandroff, A Countess from Hong Kong, Rank/Universal, 1966
  • Isabella, More Than a Miracle (also known as Cinderella, Italian Style, Happily Every After, and C'era una volta) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1967
  • Maria Lojacono, Ghosts, Italian Style (also known as Three Ghosts and Questi fantasmi), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1967
  • Giovanna, Sunflower (also known as I girasoli and Les fleurs du soleil), Avco-Embassy, 1969
  • Valeria Billi, The Priest's Wife (also known as La moglie del pretre), Warner Bros., 1970
  • Maddalena, Lady Liberty (also known as The Sausage and La Mortadella), Warner Bros./United Artists, 1971
  • Sister Germana, White Sister (also known as The Sin, Blanco, rojo y ... , Bianco, rosso e ... , and Une bonne planque), Columbia-Warner, 1971
  • Hot Autumn, 1971
  • Aldonza/Dulcinea, Man of La Mancha, United Artists, 1972
  • Adriana De Mauro, The Journey (also known as The Voyage, Il viaggio, and Le voyage), United Artists, 1973
  • Teresa Leoni, Verdict (also known as Jury of One, The Verdict, L'accusa e: Violenza carnale e omicidio, and Le testament), Les Films Concordia, 1974
  • Pupa, La pupa del gangster (also known as Get Rita, GunMoll, Lady of the Evening, Oopsie Poopsie, and Poopsie), United Artists, 1975
  • Angela Kincaid, Angela (also known as Angela-Il suo unico peccato era l'amore ... il suo unico amore era il figlio), [Canada], 1977
  • Jennifer Rispoli Chamberlain, The Cassandra Crossing (also known as Treffpunkt Todesbruecke), Avco-Embassy, 1977
  • Antonietta, A Special Day (also known as The Great Day, Una giornata particolare, and Una giornata speciale), Cinema Five,1977
  • Mara, Brass Target, United Artists, 1978
  • Adele Tasca, Firepower, Associated Film Distribution, 1979
  • Titina Paterno, Blood Feud (also known as Revenge and Fatto di sangue fra due uomini per causa di una vedova--Si sospettano moventi politici), Associated Film Distribution, 1979
  • Cesira, Running Away (also known as La ciociara and Running Away--The Only Road Home), Paramount Home Video/Prism Entertainment,1989
  • Rosa Priore, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday (also known as Sabato, domenica, e lunedi), Silvio Berlusconi Communications, 1990
  • Isabella de la Fontaine, Ready to Wear (also known as Pret a Porter and Pret-a-Porter), Miramax, 1994
  • Maria Ragetti, Grumpier Old Men (also known as Grumpy Old Men 2), Warner Bros., 1995
  • Messages, 1996
  • Maman Levy, Soleil (also known as Sun), President Films, 1997
  • Television Appearances
  • Movies
  • Romilda Villani (her mother) and herself, Sophia Loren: Her Own Story (also known as Sophia Loren), NBC, 1980
  • Title role, Aurora (also known as Aurora by Night and Qualcosa di biondo), NBC, 1984
  • Marianna Miraldo, Courage (also known as Mother Courage), CBS, 1986
  • Lucia Angeluzzi Corbo, Mario Puzo's the Fortunate Pilgrim (also known as The Fortunate Pilgrim and Mamma Lucia), NBC, 1988
  • Michael Jackson: The Legend Continues (video), 1988
  • Sophia Loren: Actress Italian Style (video; also known as A & E Biography, Sophia Loren: Actress Italian Style), New Video Group, 1999
  • Francesca Montorsi, Francesca e Nunziata (also known as Francesca and Nunziata), Media Trade, 2001
  • Olivia, Between Strangers, Overseas FilmGroup, 2002
  • Episodic
  • Person to Person, CBS, 1958
  • Mystery guest, What's My Line?, 1961
  • Fame, Fortune and Romance, ABC, 1986
  • Reflections on the Silver Screen with Professor Richard Brown, American Movie Classics, 1990
  • So Graham Norton, Channel 4, 2001
  • Also appeared in Fantasy Island, ABC.
  • Specials
  • The World of Sophia Loren, ABC, 1962
  • Sophia Loren in Rome, ABC, 1964
  • With Love, Sophia, ABC, 1967
  • Sophia: A Self-Portrait, ABC, 1968
  • "Brief Encounter," Hallmark Hall of Fame, NBC, 1974
  • Rich and Famous 1988 World's Best, syndicated, 1988
  • Michael Jackson (also known as Motown on Showtime), Showtime, 1988
  • Sinatra 75: The Best Is Yet to Come (also known as Frank Sinatra: 75th Birthday Celebration), CBS, 1990
  • The Barbara Walters Special, ABC, 1991
  • The All-Star Salute to Our Troops, CBS, 1991
  • Images of Life: Photographs That Changed the World, CBS, 1996
  • Awards Presentations
  • The 63rd Annual Academy Awards Presentation, ABC, 1991
  • Presenter, The 65th Annual Academy Awards Presentation, ABC, 1993
  • The 52nd Annual Golden Globe Awards, 1995
  • Presenter, The 68th Annual Academy Awards Presentation, ABC, 1996
  • The 51st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, 1999
  • Other
  • Appeared in "Softly, Softly," 30 Minute Theatre; and Rivals ofSherlock Holmes.
  • RECORDINGS
  • Albums
  • Recordings include the original soundtrack recording, Man of La Mancha, United Artists; and Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren, Angel Records.
  • WRITINGS
  • Memoirs
  • (With A. E. Hotchner) Sophia: Living and Loving, Morrow, 1979
  • Cookbooks
  • In cucina con amore, published in the United States as In the Kitchen with Love and Eat with Me, Doubleday, 1972
  • Sophia Loren's Recipes and Memories, Good Times Publishing Corp.,1998
  • Nonfiction
  • Sophia Loren on Women and Beauty, Morrow, 1984
  • Confidencias de mujer, Lectorum Publications, 1984

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

    Periodicals
    • Good Housekeeping, August, 1994, pp. 68-70
    • Interview, January, 1996, pp. 26-27
    • People Weekly, August 29, 1994, pp. 85-87; February 22, 1999, p. 110; May 31, 1999, p. 90
    • Petersen's Photographic, August, 1995, p. 18
    Electronic
    • Sophia Loren-Official Site, http://www.sophialoren.com, May 1, 2002

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