{{Short description|Italian actress (born 1934)}} {{Use British English|date=November 2021}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2021}} {{Infobox person | name = Sophia Loren | honorific_suffix = OMRI L.d'H. | image = Gala de Închidere TIFF 2016 (27490660976) (cropped).jpg<!--see discussion at Talk:Sophia Loren#Lead image--> | caption = Loren at the Transilvania International Film Festival 2016 | birth_name = Sofia Costanza Brigida Villani Scicolone | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1934|9|20}} | birth_place = Rome, Kingdom of Italy | other_names = Sofia Lazzaro | spouse = {{plainlist| * {{marriage|Carlo Ponti Sr.|1957|1962|end={{abbr|ann.|annulled}}}} * {{marriage||1966|2007|end=died}} }} | children = Carlo Ponti Jr. <br />Edoardo Ponti | relatives = Maria Scicolone (sister) <br /> Romano Mussolini (brother-in-law) <br /> Alessandra Mussolini (niece) <br/> Romano Floriani Mussolini (grandnephew) <br /> Sasha Alexander (daughter-in-law) <br/><!-- Mariam Sharmanashvili (daughter-in-law)--> | years_active = 1950–2020<!--see discussion at Talk:Sophia Loren#Years_active--> | occupation = Actress | citizenship = {{hlist|Italy|France}} | signature = Unterschrift Sophia Loren (Autogramm) italienische Filmschauspielerin.png }}
'''Sofia Costanza Brigida Villani Scicolone''' ({{IPA|it|soˈfiːa vilˈlaːni ʃʃikoˈloːne|lang}}; born 20 September 1934), known professionally as '''Sophia Loren''' ({{IPAc-en|l|ə|ˈ|r|ɛ|n}} {{respell|lə|REN}},<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.lexico.com/definition/Loren,+Sophia |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220529152418/https://www.lexico.com/definition/loren,_sophia?s=t |url-status=dead |archive-date=2022-05-29 |title=Loren, Sophia |dictionary=Lexico UK English Dictionary |publisher=Oxford University Press}}</ref> {{IPA|it|ˈlɔːren|lang}}), 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.<ref>{{cite web|last=Stanton|first=Elizabeth|url=https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/sophia-lorens-devastating-injury-complicated-journey-become-ultimate-golden-age-sex-symbol|title=Sophia Loren's devastating injury after complicated journey to become the ultimate golden age sex symbol|date=2023-09-26|work=Fox News|access-date=2024-09-04}}</ref>
Encouraged to enroll in acting lessons after entering a beauty pageant, Loren began her film career at age 16 in 1950. 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. Her film appearances around this time include ''The Pride and the Passion'', ''Houseboat'', and ''It Started in Naples''. During the 1950s, she starred in films as a sexually emancipated persona and was one of the best known sex symbols of the time.
Loren's performance as Cesira in the film ''Two Women'' (1960), directed by Vittorio De Sica, won her the Academy Award for Best Actress, making her the first performer to ever win an Oscar for a non-English-language performance. 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 has won five special Golden Globes (including the Cecil B. 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. In 1991, she received the Academy Honorary Award for lifetime achievements. In 1999, the American Film Institute (AFI) named her one of the greatest stars of American film history; {{as of|2026|post=,|lc=yes}} she is the last remaining living entrant from the AFI lists. She was appointed Knight of the Legion of Honour in France in July 1991, and Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (OMRI) in June 1996.
At the start of the 1980s, Loren chose to make rarer film appearances. Since then, she has appeared in films such as ''Prêt-à-porter'' (1994), ''Grumpier Old Men'' (1995), ''Nine'' (2009), and ''The Life Ahead'' (2020).
== Early life == === Family and childhood === Sofia Costanza Brigida Villani Scicolone was born on September 20, 1934, in the Clinica Regina Margherita in Rome,<ref>{{cite web|author=EnciclopediaTreccani|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/sophia-loren|title=Sophia Loren profile|publisher=Treccani.it|access-date=15 March 2010}}</ref> the daughter of Romilda Villani (1910–1991) and Riccardo Scicolone Murillo (1907–1976). Her mother was a piano teacher and aspiring actress, and her father a failed engineer who worked temporarily for the national railway Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane. Loren claimed in her autobiography that he was of noble descent, by virtue of which she is entitled to call herself "Viscountess of Pozzuoli, Lady of Caserta, a title given by the House of Hohenstaufen, Marchioness of Licata Scicolone Murillo".{{sfn|Loren|2015|p=5}}
Loren's father refused to marry her mother,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n8s-4ehlIw&t=360s| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200413124135/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n8s-4ehlIw&gl=US&hl=en| archive-date=13 April 2020|title=YouTube|via=YouTube}}</ref> leaving her without financial support. 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.<ref>"Interviews of a Lifetime" (1991) – Barbara Walters with Sofia Loren.</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8241850.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121115130849/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8241850.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=15 November 2012|title=Sophia Loren Now Appearing in 'El Cid', she remains a very human icon|last=Carr|first=Jay|work=Boston Globe|date=22 August 1993|access-date=15 March 2010}}</ref> Loren's parents had another child together, her sister Maria, in 1938. Scicolone did not want to formally recognise Maria as his daughter. When Loren became successful, she paid her father in order to have her sister Maria take the Scicolone last name.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Arnaldi |first1=Valeria |title=Maria Scicolone confessa: "Mia sorella Sophia Loren ha comprato il mio cognome" |url=https://www.ilmessaggero.it/societa/persone/sophia_loren_ha_comprato_cognome_parla_la_sorella_maria_scicolone-1580272.html |access-date=28 April 2022 |work=Il Messaggero |date=26 February 2016}}</ref> Loren has two younger paternal half-brothers, Giuliano and Giuseppe.<ref name="lorenarchives.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.lorenarchives.com/profile_family.html|title=Sophia Loren Archives – Chronicles|publisher=Lorenarchives.com|access-date=10 December 2010}}</ref> Romilda, Sofia, and Maria lived with Loren's grandmother in Pozzuoli, near Naples.<ref name="parade_1987">{{cite magazine|title=Sophia Loren Has a Secret: How She's Managed To Survive|date=18 January 1987|magazine=Parade|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=qCQeAAAAIBAJ&pg=5056,1131904&dq=sophia-how-she's-managed-to-succeed-ophia-loren-has-a&hl=en}}</ref><ref name="biography.com">{{cite web|url=https://www.biography.com/actors/sophia-loren|title=Sophia Loren|date=23 April 2021|website=Biography|access-date=18 January 2024|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231204063653/https://www.biography.com/actors/sophia-loren|archive-date=4 December 2023}}</ref>
During the Second World War, the harbour and munitions plant in Pozzuoli was a frequent bombing target of the Allies. During one raid, as Loren ran to the shelter, she was struck by shrapnel and wounded in the chin.{{sfn|Loren|2015|p=14}} After that, the family moved to Naples, where they were taken in by distant relatives. After the war, Loren and her family returned to Pozzuoli. Loren's grandmother Luisa opened a pub in their living room, selling homemade cherry liquor. Romilda played the piano, Maria sang, and Loren waited on tables and washed dishes. The place was popular with the American GIs stationed nearby.{{citation needed|date=April 2018}}thumb|Loren, age 15, as ''Sofia Lazzaro'' during a beauty pageant|249x249px
=== Pageantry === Sofia participated in her first beauty pageant at the age of 15. "The Queen of the Sea" contest, organized by the newspaper ''Corriere di Napoli'' was held in Naples, on 2 October 1949.<ref>{{cite web |date=2018-10-21 |title=Storia di una foto: Sofia nel 1949 quando non era Loren |url=https://napoli.corriere.it/notizie/cultura-e-tempo-libero/18_settembre_21/storia-una-foto-sofia-1949-quando-non-era-loren-1d43b266-bd93-11e8-833d-424449e1ce84.shtml |trans-title=Story of a photo: Sofia in 1949 when she wasn't Loren |website=Corriere della Sera |language=it |publisher=RCS Mediagroup S.p.a. |publication-place=Milan |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250727225403/https://napoli.corriere.it/notizie/cultura-e-tempo-libero/18_settembre_21/storia-una-foto-sofia-1949-quando-non-era-loren-1d43b266-bd93-11e8-833d-424449e1ce84.shtml |archive-date=2025-07-27 |access-date=2025-07-27}}</ref> She had travelled with her mother via train from Pozzuoli while wearing her pageant dress made by her grandmother out of taffeta curtains. She was one of 12 girls to win a consolation prize as "princesses". The princesses along with the queen were paraded through the city streets in a carriage. The winnings included 23,000 lire and a train ticket to Rome. Later, the train ticket would facilitate her and her mother's move to Rome in search of work at Cinecittà.<ref name="yttbook">{{cite book |last=Loren |first=Sophia |date=2014 |title=Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow |location=New York |publisher=Altria Books |chapter=The Fairy-Tale Factory |isbn=978-1-4767-9742-7}}</ref>
Also at age 15, Loren (as ''Sofia Lazzaro'') entered the Miss Italia 1950 beauty pageant and was assigned as Candidate No. 2, being one of the four contestants representing the Lazio region. She was selected as one of the last three finalists and won the title of Miss Elegance 1950, while Liliana Cardinale won the title of Miss Cinema and Anna Maria Bugliari won the grand title of Miss Italia. She returned in 2001 as president of the jury for the 61st edition of the pageant. In 2010, Loren crowned the 71st Miss Italia pageant winner.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.missitalia.it/news/newsdett.php?idnews=1053|title=Sofia Loren: "A Miss Italia è cominciata la mia carriera di attrice"|language=it|trans-title=Sofia Loren: With Miss Italia my career as an actress began|publisher=Missitalia|access-date=28 August 2019}}</ref><ref name=corriere>{{cite web|url=http://www.corriere.it/spettacoli/10_settembre_13/miss-italia-serata-finale_caf7ec04-bf79-11df-8975-00144f02aabe.shtml|title=Sophia incorona Francesca Ecco la nuova Miss Italia|language=it|trans-title=Sophia crowns Francesca Ecco, the new Miss Italia|work= Corriere della Sera|access-date=28 August 2019}}</ref>
== Career == === Early roles === [[File:'La baia di Napoli".jpg|thumb|left|Loren in ''It Started in Naples'' (1959), in which she sang "Tu vuò fà l'americano"|244x244px]] Sofia was placed in a Neapolitan acting school by her mother who earned the money by teaching piano lessons. It was through the school's instructor, Pino Serpe, that Sophia obtained her first film roles. These were small, uncredited parts in films such as ''Hearts at Sea'' (1950) and ''The Vow'' (1950). Sophia and her mother relocated to Rome after learning that MGM was filming the epic film ''Quo Vadis'' there and were looking for extras.<ref name="yttbook"/>
Sofia Lazzaro enrolled in the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, the national film school of Italy and appeared as an uncredited extra in Mervyn LeRoy's 1951 film ''Quo Vadis'', when she was 16 years old.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/59900 |title=Quo Vadis |author=Celia M. Reilly |publisher=Turner Classic Movies |access-date=5 May 2017 |archive-date=4 February 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180204182419/http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/59900%7C0/Quo-Vadis.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Small|first=Pauline|title=Sophia Loren: Moulding the Star|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4QhnLOpcLfcC&pg=PA24|access-date=5 May 2017|year=2009|publisher=Intellect Books|isbn=978-1-84150-234-2|page=24}}</ref> She was noticed by Michal Waszysnki, who promoted her and helped her get her first significant role.{{which|date=June 2025}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Michał Waszyński |url=https://culture.pl/en/artist/michal-waszynski |access-date=2025-05-24 |website=Culture.pl |language=en}}</ref> That same year, Loren appeared in the Italian film ''Era lui... sì! sì!'', in which she played an odalisque, and was credited as ''Sofia Lazzaro''. In the early part of the decade, she played bit parts and had minor roles in several films, including ''La Favorita'' (1952).<ref>La Favorita – 1952 – https://pics.filmaffinity.com/la_favorita-233461134-large.jpg</ref>
Carlo Ponti changed her name and public image to appeal to a wider audience as ''Sophia Loren'', being a twist on the name of the Swedish actress Märta Torén and suggested by Goffredo Lombardo. Her first starring role was in ''Aida'' (1953), for which she received critical acclaim.<ref name="yahoo1">{{cite web|url=https://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800018204/bio|title=Sophia Loren biography at|publisher=Yahoo! Movies|access-date=15 March 2010|archive-date=3 January 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100103122020/http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800018204/bio|url-status=dead}}</ref>
[[File:Sophia Loren (1957).jpg|left|thumb|270x270px|Loren in a publicity photo for ''Legend of the Lost'' (1957)]] After playing the lead role in ''Two Nights with Cleopatra'' (1953), her breakthrough role was in ''The Gold of Naples'' (1954), directed by Vittorio De Sica.<ref name="yahoo1" /> ''Too Bad She's Bad'', also released in 1954, and ''La Bella Mugnaia'' (1955) became the first of many films in which Loren co-starred with Marcello Mastroianni. Over the next three years, she acted in many films, including ''Scandal in Sorrento'', ''Lucky to Be a Woman'', ''Boy on a Dolphin'', ''Legend of the Lost'' and ''The Pride and the Passion'' (1957), the latter film a Napoleonic era war-epic set in Spain starring Cary Grant and Frank Sinatra.
=== International stardom === thumb|right|200px|Loren in 1959[[File:Sophia Loren 1961.jpg|thumb|right|230x230px|Drawing of Loren by Nicholas Volpe after she won an Oscar for ''Two Women'' (1961)]] Loren became an international film star following her five-picture contract with Paramount Pictures in 1958. Among her films at this time were ''Desire Under the Elms'' with Anthony Perkins, based upon the Eugene O'Neill play; ''Houseboat'', a romantic comedy co-starring Cary Grant; and George Cukor's ''Heller in Pink Tights'', in which she appeared as a blonde for the first time.
In 1960, 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. The two end up gang-raped inside a church as they travel back to their home city following cessation of bombings there. Originally cast as the daughter, Loren fought against type and was eventually cast as the mother (actress Eleonora Brown would portray the daughter). Loren's performance earned her many awards, including the Cannes Film Festival's best performance prize, and an Academy Award for Best Actress, the first major Academy Award for a non-English-language performance or to an Italian actress. She won 22 international awards for ''Two Women''. The film was extremely well received by critics and a huge commercial success. Though proud of this accomplishment, Loren did not show up to this award, citing fear of fainting at the award ceremony. Nevertheless, Cary Grant telephoned her in Rome the next day to inform her of the Oscar award.{{sfn|Loren|2015|pp=135–140}}
During the 1960s, Loren was one of the most popular actresses in the world, and continued to make films in the United States and Europe, starring with prominent leading men. In 1961 and 1964, her career reached its pinnacle when she received $1 million to appear in ''El Cid'' and ''The Fall of the Roman Empire''. In 1965, she received a second Academy Award nomination for her performance in ''Marriage Italian-Style'' opposite Marcello Mastroianni.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Oscar's Favorite Actors: The Winningest Stars (and More Who Should Be)|last=Leslie|first=Roger|publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers|year=2017|isbn=9781476669564|location=Jefferson, North Carolina|pages=277}}</ref>
Among Loren's best-known films of this period are Samuel Bronston's epic production of ''El Cid'' with Charlton Heston, ''The Millionairess'' (1960) with Peter Sellers, ''It Started in Naples'' (1960) with Clark Gable, Vittorio De Sica's triptych ''Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow'' (1963) with Marcello Mastroianni, Peter Ustinov's ''Lady L'' (1965) with Paul Newman, ''Arabesque'' (1966) with Gregory Peck, and Charlie Chaplin's final film, ''A Countess from Hong Kong'' (1967) with Marlon Brando.
Loren received four Golden Globe Awards between 1964 and 1977 as "World Film Favorite – Female".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/person/sophia-loren |title=Sophia Loren |website=Golden Globe Awards |access-date=27 December 2017}}</ref>
[[File:Sophia Loren in "Judith", 1966.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Sophia Loren in a still from ''Judith'' (1966)]]
=== Continued success === Loren appeared in fewer movies after becoming a mother in 1968. During the next decade, most of her roles were in Italian features. During the 1970s, she was paired with Richard Burton in the last De Sica-directed film, ''The Voyage'' (1974), and a remake of the film ''Brief Encounter'' (1974). The film had its premiere on US television on 12 November 1974 as part of the ''Hallmark Hall of Fame'' series on NBC. In 1976, she starred in ''The Cassandra Crossing''. It fared extremely well internationally, and was a respectable box office success in the US market. She co-starred with Marcello Mastroianni again in Ettore Scola's ''A Special Day'' (1977). This movie was nominated for 11 international awards such as two Oscars (best actor in leading role, best foreign picture). It won a Golden Globe Award and a César Award for best foreign movie. Loren's performance was awarded with a David di Donatello Award, the seventh in her career. The movie was extremely well received by American reviewers. Following this success, Loren starred in an American thriller ''Brass Target''. This movie received mixed reviews, although it was moderately successful in the United States and internationally. In 1978, she won her fourth Golden Globe for "world film favorite". Other movies of this decade were Academy Award nominee ''Sunflower'' (1970), which was a critical success, and Arthur Hiller's ''Man of La Mancha'' (1972), which was a critical and commercial failure despite being nominated for several awards, including two Golden Globes. Peter O'Toole and James Coco were nominated for two NBR awards, in addition the NBR listed ''Man of La Mancha'' in its best ten pictures of 1972 list.<ref name="yahoo1" /> Loren headlined the action thriller ''Firepower'' (1979) co-starring James Coburn and O. J. Simpson, whom she had previously worked with on ''The Cassandra Crossing''.
left|thumb|280x280px|Loren in 1979
In 1980, after the international success of the biography ''Sophia Loren: Living and Loving, Her Own Story'' by A. E. Hotchner, Loren portrayed herself and her mother in a made-for-television biographical film adaptation of her autobiography, ''Sophia Loren: Her Own Story''. Ritza Brown and Chiara Ferrari each portrayed the younger Loren. In 1981, she became the first female celebrity to launch her own perfume, 'Sophia', and a brand of eyewear soon followed.<ref name="yahoo1" />
Loren acted infrequently during the 1980s, preferring to devote more time to raising her sons.<ref>{{cite web|last=Hall |first=Jane |url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20088965,00.html |title=Sophia's Choice – Kids & Family Life, Sophia Loren |work=People |date=22 October 1984 |access-date=10 December 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmreference.com/Actors-and-Actresses-Le-Ma/Loren-Sophia.html |title=Sophia Loren – Actors and Actresses – Films as Actress:, Publications|publisher=Film Reference|access-date=10 December 2010}}</ref> In 1981 she turned down the role of Alexis Carrington in the television series ''Dynasty''. Although she was set to star in 13 episodes of CBS's ''Falcon Crest'' in 1984 as Angela Channing's half-sister Francesca Gioberti, negotiations fell through at the last moment and the role went to Gina Lollobrigida instead. She played the title role in the 1984 TV movie ''Aurora'', in which she acted alongside her 11-year-old real-life son Edoardo Ponti.
Loren has recorded more than two dozen songs throughout her career, including a best-selling album of comedic songs with Peter Sellers; reportedly, she had to fend off his romantic advances. Partly owing to Sellers's infatuation with Loren, he split with his first wife, Anne Howe. Loren has made it clear to numerous biographers that Sellers's affections were reciprocated only platonically. This collaboration was covered in ''The Life and Death of Peter Sellers'' where actress Sonia Aquino portrayed Loren. The song "Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)?" by Peter Sarstedt was said to have been inspired by Loren.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/peter-sarstedt-singer-where-do-you-go-my-lovely-dies-aged-75-1599940 |newspaper=International Business Times |last=Keating |first=Fiona |title=Peter Sarstedt, singer of Where Do You Go To My Lovely? dies aged 75 |date=1 February 2017 |access-date=12 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=A Smudge on My Lens |isbn=978-1-906510-78-7 |page=97 |last=Spencer |first=Dave |publisher=Troubador Publishing Ltd |year=2008 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MXkF1c8uRsoC&pg=PA97}}</ref> [[File:Sophia Loren L.A..jpg|right|thumb|280x280px|Loren in 1986, photo by Allan Warren]]
=== Later career === In 1991, 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." In 1995, she received the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.goldenglobes.org/2011/05/sophia-loren-reflects-on-her-hollywood-career/|title=Sophia Loren reflects on her Hollywood|publisher=Golden Globes|access-date=19 March 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130313215729/http://www.goldenglobes.org/2011/05/sophia-loren-reflects-on-her-hollywood-career/|archive-date=13 March 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> a similar honorary award, bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, for outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment.
She presented Federico Fellini with his honorary Oscar in April 1993. In 2009, Loren stated on ''Larry King Live'' that Fellini had planned to direct her in a film shortly before his death in 1993.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://archives.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0912/15/lkl.01.html|title=CNN.com – Transcripts|publisher=CNN|date=15 December 2009|access-date=15 March 2010}}</ref> Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, Loren was selective about choosing her films and ventured into various areas of business, including cookbooks, eyewear, jewelry, and perfume. She received a Golden Globe nomination for her performance in Robert Altman's film ''Ready to Wear'' (1994), co-starring Julia Roberts.
In 1994, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs, California, Walk of Stars was dedicated to her.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.palmspringswalkofstars.com/web-storage/Stars/Stars%20dedicated%20by%20date.pdf |title=Palm Springs Walk of Stars by date dedicated |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121013165655/http://www.palmspringswalkofstars.com/web-storage/Stars/Stars%20dedicated%20by%20date.pdf |archive-date=13 October 2012 |website=Palm Springs Walk of Stars |url-status=usurped |access-date=31 January 2015}}</ref>
In ''Grumpier Old Men'' (1995), Loren played a ''femme fatale'' opposite Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon, and Ann-Margret. The film was a box-office success and became Loren's biggest US hit in years.<ref name="yahoo1" /> At the 20th Moscow International Film Festival in 1997, she was awarded an Honorable Prize for contribution to cinema.<ref name="Moscow1997">{{cite web|url=http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1997|title=20th Moscow International Film Festival (1997)|access-date=22 March 2013|work=MIFF|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130322163106/http://moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1997|archive-date=22 March 2013}}</ref> In 1999, the American Film Institute named Loren among the greatest female stars of American film history.<ref name="AFIlist">{{cite press release |url= http://www.afi.com/100Years/stars.aspx |title= AFI Recognizes the 50 Greatest American Screen Legends |publisher= American Film Institute |date= 16 June 1999 |access-date= 22 April 2016 |archive-date= 13 January 2013 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130113043532/http://www.afi.com/100years/stars.aspx |url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2001, Loren received a Special Grand Prix of the Americas Award at the Montreal World Film Festival for her body of work.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ffm-montreal.org/palmares/en_2001.html |title=Awards 2001 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090916005515/http://www.ffm-montreal.org/palmares/en_2001.html |archive-date=16 September 2009 |url-status=usurped |website=Festival des Films du Monde}}</ref> She filmed two projects in Canada during this time: the independent film ''Between Strangers'' (2002), directed by her son Edoardo and co-starring Mira Sorvino, and the television miniseries ''Lives of the Saints'' (2004).
thumb|200px|left|Loren in 2009 In 2009, 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 midlife crisis causes him to struggle to complete his latest film; he is forced to balance the influences of numerous formative women in his life, including his deceased mother. Loren was Marshall's first and only choice for the role. The film also stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Penélope Cruz, Kate Hudson, Marion Cotillard, and Nicole Kidman. As a part of the cast, she received her first nomination for a Screen Actors Guild Award.
In 2010, 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'' (''{{interlanguage link|My House Is Full of Mirrors|it|La mia casa è piena di specchi (miniserie televisiva)}}''), based on the memoir by her sister Maria. In July 2013 Loren made her film comeback in an Italian short-film adaptation of Jean Cocteau's 1930 play ''The Human Voice'' (''La voce umana''), which charts the breakdown of a woman who is left by her lover – with her younger son, Edoardo Ponti, as director. Filming took under a month during July in various locations in Italy, including Rome and Naples. It was Loren's first theatrical film since ''Nine''.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/entertainment-us-italy-loren-idUSBRE9680PO20130709|work=Reuters|title=Sophia Loren to return to big screen in son's film|date=9 July 2013|access-date=2 July 2017|archive-date=24 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924182806/http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/09/entertainment-us-italy-loren-idUSBRE9680PO20130709|url-status=live}}</ref> She returned to feature-length film, as Holocaust survivor Madame Rosa, in Ponti's 2020 feature film ''The Life Ahead''. In 2021 she received AARP Best Actress and AWFJ Grand Dame awards for her role.<ref>{{cite web|title=AARP Movies for Grownups Awards: 'The United States vs. Billie Holiday' Named Best Picture|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/aarp-movies-for-grownups-awards-the-united-states-vs-billie-holiday-named-best-picture-4143393/|first=Hilary|last=Lewis|date=4 March 2021|access-date=23 October 2021|website=The Hollywood Reporter}}</ref> After turning 90 in September 2024, despite having been inactive since the release of ''The Life Ahead'', Loren dismissed rumors about her retirement and expressed her hopes to star in new productions.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sophia Loren, Now 90, Hopes to 'Never' Retire: 'I Don't Want to Think About Legacy'|url=https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/sophia-loren-90-shares-her-plans-to-never-retire-from-hollywood/|first=Mike|last=Vulpo|date=8 November 2024|access-date=6 December 2024|website=US Weekly}}</ref>
thumb|245x245px|Loren in 2016 On 16 November 2017, Loren received a star at Almeria Walk of Fame in Spain for her work on ''White Sister''.<ref>{{cite news |author=Europa Press |author-link=Europa Press (news agency) |title=Sophia Loren ya luce su estrella en el Paseo de La Fama de Almería |url=http://www.elmundo.es/andalucia/2017/11/18/5a105753468aeb8e308b4668.html |date=18 November 2017 |access-date=2 December 2017 |newspaper=El Mundo |language=es |location=Almeria}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Sophia Loren descubre su estrella en el Paseo de la Fama de Almería |url=http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/telediario/sofia-loren-recibira-premio-especial-del-festival-cine-almeria/4312088/ |date=18 November 2017 |access-date=2 December 2017 |newspaper=Radiotelevisión Española |language=es}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Martínez|first=Evaristo|date=16 November 2017|title=El Paseo de las Estrellas ya espera a Sophia Loren|language=es|newspaper=La Voz de Almería|url=https://www.lavozdealmeria.com/noticia/5/vivir/141666/el-paseo-de-las-estrellas-ya-espera-a-sophia-loren|access-date=2 December 2017}}</ref> She received the Almería Tierra de Cine award.<ref>{{cite news|date=29 October 2017|title=Sophia Loren recibe el premio 'Almería Tierra de Cine' y tendrá su estrella en el paseo de la Fama|language=es|newspaper=La Voz de Almería|url=https://www.lavozdealmeria.com/noticia/5/vivir/140547/sophia-loren-recibe-el-premio-almeria-tierra-de-cine-y-tendra-su-estrella-en-el-paseo-de-la-fama|access-date=2 December 2017}}</ref>
== Personal life == Loren is a Roman Catholic.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.contactmusic.com/news/loren-calls-for-late-popes-beatification_1099331 |title=Loren Calls For Late Pope's Beatification |website=contactmusic.com |access-date=31 January 2015 |agency=World Entertainment News Network (WENN) |date=1 April 2009}}</ref> Since 2006, her primary residence has been in Geneva, Switzerland.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/story/loren-leaves-italy-for-switzerland_1010708|title=Loren Leaves Italy For Switzerland|website=contactmusic.com|date=12 October 2006|access-date=10 December 2010}}</ref> Loren's real estate portfolio has included a ranch in Hidden Valley, California,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB116553525406344039|title=Sale Italian Style: Sophia Loren Sells Ranch|first=Ben|last=Casselman|date=8 December 2006|work=Wall Street Journal}}</ref> an apartment in the Hampshire House building in Manhattan,<ref name="Landers">{{cite journal|last=Landers|first=Margaret|date=16 February 1984|title=Time's been very kind to Sophia Loren|journal=The Miami Herald|page=1B}}</ref> a condo on Williams Island in South Florida,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/sophia-lorens-south-florida-house|title=Sophia Loren's Home in South Florida|first=Michael|last=Peppiatt|date=11 May 2016|work=Architectural Digest}}</ref> and a villa in Rome.<ref name="Landers"/>
Loren is an ardent fan of the football club S.S.C. Napoli. In May 2007, when the team was third in Serie B, she (then aged 72) told the ''Gazzetta dello Sport'' that she would do a striptease if the team won.<ref>{{cite news|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|title=Napoli fan Sofia Loren to strip if team go up|url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldFootballNews/idUKL1508471620070515|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070517051204/http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldFootballNews/idUKL1508471620070515|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 May 2007|work=Thomson Reuters|date=15 May 2007|access-date=23 April 2008}}</ref> She had recently posed for the 2007 Pirelli Calendar.<ref>{{cite news|first=Elena|last=Gorgan|date=17 November 2006|title=Sophia Loren Sizzles in the New Pirelli Calendar|url=http://news.softpedia.com/news/Sophia-Loren-Sizzles-in-the-New-Pirelli-Calendar-40460.shtml|publisher=Softpedia|access-date=12 March 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090213013505/http://news.softpedia.com/news/Sophia-Loren-Sizzles-in-the-New-Pirelli-Calendar-40460.shtml|archive-date=13 February 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref>
In February 2021, Loren was the guest on BBC Radio 4's ''Desert Island Discs'' and chose a pizza oven as her luxury item. Her musical choices included Cole Porter's "I've Got You Under My Skin" as sung by Ella Fitzgerald, and Debussy's "Clair de lune" as played by Tamás Vásáry.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Desert Island Discs - Sophia Loren|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000sgvk|date=21 February 2021|access-date=26 February 2021|publisher=BBC|language=en-GB}}</ref> She revealed that fellow actor Richard Burton was furious with her for cheating at Scrabble.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/1402978/Sophia-Loren-richard-burton-scrabble-cheating-desert-island-discs-latest-news-update|title = Sophia Loren says Richard Burton was furious at Scrabble cheating 'Not playing with you!'|website=Express|date = 26 February 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/celebrity/sophia-loren-angered-richard-burton-with-scrabble-cheating/ar-BB1e34eO|title=Sophia Loren angered Richard Burton with Scrabble cheating|publisher=MSN}}</ref>
On 24 September 2023, Loren received emergency surgery following fractures to her hip and femur sustained from a fall at her home in Switzerland.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Vivarelli |first=Nick |date=2023-09-25 |title=Sophia Loren Recovering From Hip Surgery Following a Fall in Her Geneva Home |url=https://variety.com/2023/film/global/sophia-loren-fall-hip-surgery-1235734002/ |access-date=2023-10-04 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}</ref>
=== Marriage and family === left|thumb|200x200px|Ponti and Loren in 1958 Loren first met Carlo Ponti in 1950, when she was 15 and he was 37, and they soon began an affair. Since divorce was not permitted in Italian law at the time, Ponti was not legally divorced from his wife, Giuliana Fiastri, when Loren married him by proxy (two male lawyers stood in for them) in Mexico on 17 September 1957.<ref name=PontiObit>{{cite news |url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/carlo-ponti-husband-to-sophia-loren-dead-at-94 |title=Carlo Ponti, Husband to Sophia Loren, Dead at 94 |agency=Associated Press |publisher=Fox News |date=10 January 2007 |access-date=25 February 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130904200836/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,242764,00.html |archive-date=4 September 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref> The couple had their marriage annulled in 1962 to escape bigamy charges, but continued to live together. In 1965, they became French citizens after their application was approved by then French Prime Minister Georges Pompidou.<ref name=PontiObit /> Ponti then obtained a divorce from Giuliana in France, allowing him to marry Loren on 9 April 1966.<ref>{{cite news|last=Exshaw|first=John|title=Carlo Ponti obituary|work=The Independent|date=12 January 2007|url=http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2144032.ece|location=London, UK|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070219203402/http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2144032.ece|archive-date=19 February 2007}}</ref> The marriage lasted until Ponti's death on 10 January 2007 from pulmonary complications, aged 94.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hellomagazine.com/film/2007/01/10/carlo-ponte-loren|title=Sophia Loren's Husband Carlo Ponti Passes Away|work=Hello|date=10 January 2007|access-date=10 December 2010}}</ref>
The couple had two sons, Carlo Ponti Jr., born on 29 December 1968, and Edoardo Ponti, born on 6 January 1973.<ref name="biography.com"/><ref>{{cite news|last=Caruso|first=Skyler|date=25 September 2023|title=All About Sophia Loren's 2 Children, Carlo Ponti Jr. and Edoardo Ponti|url=https://people.com/all-about-sophia-loren-children-7974117|url-status=live|work=People|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231103195409/https://people.com/all-about-sophia-loren-children-7974117|archive-date=3 November 2023|access-date=18 January 2024}}</ref> Loren's daughters-in-law are Sasha Alexander and Andrea Meszaros.<ref name="lorenarchives.com" /><ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.life.com/image/51321373|title=Carlo Ponti, Jr., Weds in St. Stephen's Basilica|magazine=Life|date=18 September 2004|access-date=10 December 2010|archive-date=10 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110610222019/http://www.life.com/image/51321373|url-status=dead}}</ref> Loren has four grandchildren<ref>{{cite web | url=https://fabiosa.com/ctclb-rsafr-auova-pbmts-phkbr-84-year-old-legend-sophia-loren-claims-she-has-the-most-beautiful-grandchildren-in-the-world/ | title=84-Year-Old Legend Sophia Loren Claims She Has The Most Beautiful Grandchildren In The World | work=Fabiosa |first=Olivia |last=Pollard| date=19 November 2018 | access-date=24 July 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Schmidt|first=Audrey|date=12 October 2023|title=All About Sophia Loren's 4 Grandchildren|url=https://people.com/all-about-sophia-loren-grandchildren-8348299|url-status=live|work=People|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231023092531/https://people.com/all-about-sophia-loren-grandchildren-8348299|archive-date=23 October 2023|access-date=18 January 2024}}</ref> and is one of Drew Barrymore's godparents, along with Anna Strasberg and Steven Spielberg.<ref>{{cite news|last=Pellegrini|first=Francesca|title=Drew Barrymore compie 50 anni, 10 cose che forse non sai sull'ex bimba prodigio di Hollywood|url=https://www.vanityfair.it/article/drew-barrymore-50-anni-gossip|language=it|work=Vanity Fair Italia|date=22 February 2025|access-date=27 February 2025}}</ref>
In 1962, 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.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/feb/08/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries|title=Obituary: Romano Mussolini|last=Hooper|first=John|date=8 February 2006|work=The Guardian|access-date=25 January 2019|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
=== Affair with Cary Grant === [[File:Grant Loren Houseboat Publicity Photo.jpg|thumb|right|Cary Grant and Loren in ''Houseboat'' (1958)|194x194px]] Loren and Cary Grant co-starred in ''Houseboat'' (1958). Grant's wife Betsy Drake wrote the original script, and Grant originally intended that Drake would star with him. After he began an affair with Loren while filming ''The Pride and the Passion'' (1957), Grant arranged for Loren to take Drake's place with a rewritten script for which Drake asked not to receive credit. The affair ended in bitterness before ''The Pride and the Passion''{{'}}s filming ended, causing problems on the ''Houseboat'' set. Grant hoped to resume the relationship, but Loren decided to marry Carlo Ponti instead.<ref name=Jaynes-Trach>{{cite book|author1=Jaynes, Barbara Grant |author2=Trachtenberg, Robert |url=https://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/76185 |title=Cary Grant: A Class Apart|location=Burbank, California|publisher= Turner Classic Movies (TCM) and Turner Entertainment|date= 2004}}</ref>
=== Legal issues and lawsuits === In 1982, while in Italy, Loren made headlines after serving 17 days in prison on tax evasion charges. Loren said her accountant had made a mistake on her tax return. The matter did not hamper her popularity or career. In 2013, 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.<ref name="taxes">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/oct/24/sophia-loren-tax-victory-40-years|title=Sophia Loren wins tax case after 40 years|work=The Guardian|author=Davies, Lizzy|date=24 October 2013|access-date=17 November 2013}}</ref>
In September 1999, Loren filed a lawsuit against 79 adult websites for posting altered nude photos of her on the internet.<ref>{{cite web|author=The Fake Detective|url=http://www.fake-detective.com/faqs/legal-1.htm|title=Law Suits Involving Fakes And Celebrity Photographs|access-date=10 December 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527045453/http://www.fake-detective.com/faqs/legal-1.htm|archive-date=27 May 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.markroesler.com/pdf/articles/lorensues.pdf |title=Profile |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303211816/http://www.markroesler.com/pdf/articles/lorensues.pdf |archive-date=3 March 2016 |website=markroesler.com |access-date=31 January 2015}}</ref>
== Filmography == [[File:Sophia Loren Coppa Volpi 1958.jpg|thumb|257x257px|Loren with her Volpi Cup in 1958]] {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |- | rowspan="4"|1950 | ''Bluebeard's Six Wives'' | Girl kidnapped | |- | ''Tototarzan'' | A tarzanide | |- | ''The Vow'' | A commoner at the Piedigrotta festival | |- | ''Hearts at Sea'' | Extra | Uncredited |- | rowspan="8"|1951 | ''I'm the Capataz'' | Secretary of the Dictator | |- | ''Brief Rapture'' | A girl in the boardinghouse | |- | ''The Steamship Owner'' | Ballerinetta | |- | ''Milan Billionaire'' | Extra | Uncredited |- | ''The Reluctant Magician'' | The bride | |- | ''Quo Vadis'' | Lygia's slave | Uncredited |- | ''Era lui... sì! sì!'' (''It Was He!... Yes! Yes!'') | Odalisque | As Sofia Lazzaro |- | ''Anna'' | Night club assistant | Uncredited |- | rowspan="3"|1952 | ''And Arrived the Accordatore'' | Giulietta's friend | |- | ''I Dream of Zorro'' | Conchita | As Sofia Scicolone |- | ''La Favorita'' | Leonora | |- | rowspan="7"|1953 | ''The Country of the Campanelli'' | Bonbon | |- | ''We Find Ourselves in the Gallery'' | Marisa | |- | ''Two Nights with Cleopatra'' | Cleopatra / Nisca | |- | ''Girls Marked Danger'' | Elvira | |- | ''Good Folk's Sunday'' | Ines | |- | ''Aida'' | Aida | |- | ''Woman of the Red Sea'' | Barbara Lama | |- | rowspan="10" |1954 | ''A Slice of Life'' |gazzara | Segment: "La macchina fotografica" |- | ''A Day in Court'' | Anna | |- | ''{{sortname|The|Anatomy of Love|nolink=1}}'' | {{sortname|The|girl|nolink=1}} | |- | ''Poverty and Nobility'' | Gemma | |- | ''Neapolitan Carousel'' | Sisina | |- | ''Pilgrim of Love'' | Giulietta / Beppina Delli Colli | |- | ''{{sortname|The|Gold of Naples}}'' | Sofia | Segment: "Pizze a Credito" |- | ''Attila'' | Honoria | |- | ''Too Bad She's Bad'' | Lina Stroppiani | |- | ''The River Girl'' | Nives Mongolini | |- | rowspan="3"|1955 | ''{{sortname|The|Sign of Venus}}'' | Agnese Tirabassi | |- | ''{{sortname|The|Miller's Beautiful Wife}}'' | Carmela | |- | ''Scandal in Sorrento'' | Donna Sofia | |- | 1956 | ''Lucky to Be a Woman'' | Antonietta Fallari | |- | rowspan="3"|1957 | ''Boy on a Dolphin'' | Phaedra | |- | ''{{sortname|The|Pride and the Passion}}'' | Juana | |- | ''Legend of the Lost'' | Dita | |- | rowspan="4"|1958 | ''Desire Under the Elms'' | Anna Cabot | |- | ''{{sortname|The|Key|The Key (1958 film)}}'' | Stella | |- | ''{{sortname|The|Black Orchid|The Black Orchid (1958 film)}}'' | Rose Bianco | |- | ''Houseboat'' | Cinzia Zaccardi | |- | 1959 | ''That Kind of Woman'' | Kay | |- | rowspan="5"|1960 | ''Heller in Pink Tights'' | Angela Rossini | |- | ''It Started in Naples'' | Lucia Curio | |- | ''{{sortname|The|Millionairess}}'' | Epifania Parerga | |- | ''{{sortname|A|Breath of Scandal}}'' | Princess Olympia | |- | ''Two Women'' | Cesira | |- | rowspan="2"|1961 | ''{{sortname|El|Cid|El Cid (film)}}'' | Ximena | |- | ''Madame Sans-Gêne'' | Catherine Hubscher | |- | rowspan="3"|1962 | ''Boccaccio '70'' | Zoe | Segment: "La Riffa" |- | ''The Prisoners of Altona'' | Johanna | |- | ''Five Miles to Midnight'' | Lisa Macklin | |- | 1963 | ''Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow'' | Adelina Sbaratti / Anna Molteni / Mara | |- | rowspan="2"|1964 | ''{{sortname|The|Fall of the Roman Empire|The Fall of the Roman Empire (film)}}'' | Lucilla | |- | ''Marriage Italian Style'' | Filumena Marturano | |- | rowspan="2"|1965 | ''Operation Crossbow'' | Nora | |- | ''Lady L'' | Lady Louise Lendale / Lady L | |- | rowspan="2"|1966 | ''Judith'' | Judith | |- | ''Arabesque'' | Yasmin Azir | |- | rowspan="2"|1967 | ''{{sortname|A|Countess from Hong Kong}}'' | Natasha | |- | ''More Than a Miracle'' | Isabella Candeloro | |- | 1968 | ''Ghosts – Italian Style'' | Maria Lojacono | |- | rowspan="2"|1970 | ''Sunflower'' | Giovanna | |- | ''{{sortname|The|Priest's Wife}}'' | Valeria Billi | |- | 1971 | ''Lady Liberty'' | Maddalena Ciarrapico | |- | 1972 | ''Man of La Mancha'' | Aldonza / Dulcinea | |- | 1973 | ''White Sister'' | Hermana Germana | |- | rowspan="3"|1974 | ''The Voyage'' | Adriana de Mauro | |- | ''Verdict'' | Teresa Leoni | |- | ''Brief Encounter'' | Anna Jesson | Television film |- | 1975 | ''Sex Pot'' | Pupa | |- | 1976 | ''{{sortname|The|Cassandra Crossing}}'' | Jennifer Rispoli Chamberlain | |- | 1977 | ''{{sortname|A|Special Day}}'' | Antoinette | |- | rowspan="3"|1978 | ''Blood Feud'' | Titina Paterno | |- | ''Brass Target'' | Mara / cameo role | |- | ''Angela'' | Angela Kincaid | |- | 1979 | ''Firepower'' | Adele Tasca | |- | 1980 | ''Sophia Loren: Her Own Story'' | Herself / Romilda Villani (her mother) | |- | 1984 | ''Aurora'' | Aurora | rowspan="2" | Television film |- | 1986 | ''Courage'' | Marianna Miraldo |- | 1988 | ''The Fortunate Pilgrim'' | Lucia | rowspan="2" | Television miniseries |- | 1989 | ''Running Away'' | Cesira |- | 1990 | ''Saturday, Sunday and Monday'' | Rosa Priore | |- | 1994 | ''Prêt-à-Porter'' | Isabella de la Fontaine | |- | 1995 | ''Grumpier Old Men'' | Maria Sophia Coletta Ragetti | |- | 1997 | ''{{Interlanguage link|Soleil (1997 film)|fr|3=Soleil (film)|lt=Soleil}}'' | Maman Levy | |- | 2001 | ''Francesca e Nunziata'' | Francesca Montorsi | Television miniseries |- | 2002 | ''Between Strangers'' | Olivia | |- | rowspan="2"|2004 | ''Too Much Romance... It's Time for Stuffed Peppers'' | Maria | |- | ''Lives of the Saints'' | Teresa Innocente | Television miniseries |- | 2009 | ''Nine'' | Mamma | |- | 2010 | ''My House Is Full of Mirrors'' | Romilda Villani | Television miniseries |- | 2011 | ''Cars 2'' | Mama Topolino | Voice (Italian version) |- | 2013 | ''Mademoiselle C'' | Herself | Documentary |- | 2014 | ''La voce umana'' | One-woman film role | Short film |- | 2015 | ''Behind the White Glasses'' | rowspan="2" |Herself | Documentary |- | 2016 | ''Sophia Loren: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival'' | Documentary |- | rowspan="2" |2020 |''The Life Ahead'' | Madame Rosa | |- | ''Beautiful Like a Poem'' | rowspan="2" |Herself | rowspan="2" |Documentary |- | 2021 | ''What Would Sophia Loren Do?'' |}
== Recognitions == === Awards === {| class="wikitable sortable" |- !width=2%| Year !width=24%| Organizations !width=16%| Category !width=22%| Work !width=12%| Result |- |1958 || Venice Film Festival || Volpi Cup for Best Actress || ''The Black Orchid'' || {{won}} |- |rowspan=9|1960 || Golden Globe Awards || Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy || ''It Started in Naples'' || {{nom}} |- | Academy Awards || Best Actress || rowspan=8|''Two Women'' || {{won}} |- |BAFTA Awards || Best Film Foreign Actress || {{won}} |- |Bambi Awards || Best International Actress || {{won}} |- |Cannes Film Festival || Best Female Interpretation || {{won}} |- |David di Donatello Awards || Best Actress in a Leading Role || {{won}} |- |Silver Ribbon Awards || Best Leading Actress || {{won}} |- |New York Film Critics Circle Awards || Best Actress || {{won}} |- |Sant Jordi Awards || Best Performance in a Foreign Film || {{won}} |- |1962 || TCL Theatre Prints Ceremony || Footprints and Handprints Ceremony || {{n/a}} || {{won|Honored}} |- |rowspan=2|1963 || David di Donatello Awards || Best Actress in a Leading Role || rowspan=2|''Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow'' || {{won}} |- |Silver Ribbon Awards || Best Leading Actress || {{nom}} |- |rowspan=6|1964 || Academy Awards || Best Actress || rowspan=6|''Marriage Italian Style'' || {{nom}} |- |Golden Globe Awards || Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy || {{nom}} |- |David di Donatello Awards || Best Actress in a Leading Role || {{won}} |- |Moscow Film Festival<ref name="Moscow1965">{{cite web |url=http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1965 |title=4th Moscow International Film Festival (1965) |access-date=8 December 2012 |work=MIFF |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116145645/http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1965 |archive-date=16 January 2013 }}</ref> || Best Actress Award || {{won}} |- |Golden Laurel Awards || Best Actress || {{win}} |- |Silver Ribbon Awards || Best Leading Actress || {{nom}} |- |1967 || Silver Ribbon Awards || Best Leading Actress || ''More Than a Miracle'' || {{nom}} |- |rowspan=2|1970 || David di Donatello Awards || Best Actress in a Leading Role || rowspan=2|''Sunflower'' || {{won}} |- | Fotogramas de Plata Awards || Best Foreign Performer || {{nom}} |- |rowspan=2|1974 || David di Donatello Awards || Best Actress in a Leading Role || rowspan=2|''The Voyage'' || {{won}} |- | San Sebastián Film Festival || Award for Best Actress || {{won}} |- |rowspan=3|1977 || David di Donatello Awards || Best Actress in a Leading Role || rowspan=3|''A Special Day'' || {{won}} |- |Italian Golden Globe Awards || Best Lead Actress || {{won}} |- |Silver Ribbon Awards || Best Leading Actress || {{won}} |- |rowspan=2|1991 || Academy Awards || Honorary Academy Award || {{n/a}} || {{won|Honored}} |- | César Awards || Honorary César Lifetime Achievement Award || {{n/a}} || {{won|Honored}} |- |rowspan=3|1994 || Hollywood Walk of Fame || Hollywood Walk of Fame Star (Motion Picture Category) || {{n/a}} || {{won|Honored}} |- |National Board of Review of Motion Pictures Awards || Best Cast || rowspan=2|''Prêt-à-Porter'' || {{won}} |- |Golden Globe Awards || Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture || {{nom}} |- |rowspan=2|1995 || Golden Globe Awards || Cecil B. DeMille Award || {{n/a}} || {{won|Honored}} |- | Goldene Kamera Awards || Special Achievement Award || {{n/a}} || {{won|Honored}} |- |1998 || Venice Film Festival || Honorary Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement || {{n/a}} || {{won|Honored}} |- |1999 || David di Donatello Awards || Special David Award for Career Achievement || {{n/a}} || {{won|Honored}} |- |2000 || Cairo International Film Festival<ref>{{Cite web |title=Richard Gere opens Cairo International Film Festival - Film - Arts & Culture |url=https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/5/32/966/Arts--Culture/Film/Richard-Gere-opens-Cairo-International-Film-Festiv.aspx |access-date=2025-10-06 |website=Ahram Online}}</ref>|| Career Achievement Award|| {{n/a}} || {{won|Honored}} |- |rowspan=1|2004 || Grammy Awards || Best Spoken Word Album for Children || rowspan=1|''Wolf Tracks and Peter and the Wolf'' || {{won}} |- |rowspan=4|2009 || Critics' Choice Awards || Best Movie Cast || rowspan=4|''Nine'' || {{nom}} |- |Satellite Awards || Best Cast in a Film || {{won}} |- |Screen Actors Guild Awards || Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture || {{nom}} |- |Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards || Best Ensemble || {{nom}} |- |2014|| David di Donatello Awards || Special David Award || ''La voce umana''|| {{won|Honored}} |- |rowspan=7|2021|| AARP Movies for Grownups Awards || Best Actress ||rowspan=7|''The Life Ahead''|| {{won}} |- | rowspan=2|Alliance of Women Film Journalists Awards || Actress Defying Age and Ageism Award || {{won}} |- | Greatest Achievement by a Woman in the Film Industry Award || {{nom}} |- |[https://www.kcet.org/kcet-cinema-series KCET Cinema Series] |[https://www.kcet.org/kcet-cinema-series/legendary-actress-sophia-loren-receives-kcet-cinema-series-lumiere-award-at Lumière Award] | {{won}} |- | Capri Hollywood Film Festival || Best Actress || {{won}} |- | CinEuphoria Awards || Best Actress || {{won}} |- | David di Donatello Awards || Best Actress in a Leading Role|| {{won}} |- |}
=== Box office rating === In The Motion Picture Herald, both British and American exhibitors voted for Loren within the Top Ten Money Making Stars Poll: *1960 – most popular actress (3rd most popular star in UK) *1961 – 2nd most popular actress (2nd most popular star in UK) *1962 – 3rd most popular actress (7th most popular star in UK) *1964 – most popular actress in UK,<ref>007 again tops the poll: London, 1 Jan South China Sunday Post – Herald (1950–1972) [Hong Kong] 2 January 1966: 8.</ref> 24th most popular star in America *1965 – 4th most popular star in UK *1966 – 14th most popular star in America
=== Honours === * 50px Knight of the Legion of Honour{{snd}}France (1991)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100115941|title=Sophia Loren|work=Oxford Reference|access-date=6 September 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1991/07/16/legion-d-honneur_4002521_1819218.html|title=Légion d'honneur|journal=Le Monde|language=fr|date=16 July 1991|access-date=6 September 2024|url-access=subscription}}</ref> * 50px Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic{{snd}}Italy (1996)<ref>{{cite web |title=Sofia Scicolone |url=https://www.quirinale.it/onorificenze/insigniti/11600 |website=Quirinale.it |access-date=18 September 2023}}</ref>
== Selected discography == === Singles === *1955 – "Mambo Bacan" (from ''La Fille du Fleuve'') / "Nyves" (RCA 18.350 10" 78 rpm) *1956 – "Che m'e 'mparato a fà" / "I wanna a guy" (RCA, A25V-0473, 10" 78 rpm) *1957 – "S'agapò" / "Adoro te" (with Paola Orlandi) (RCA, A25V 0585, 10" 78 rpm) *1958 – "Bing! Bang! Bong!" (from ''Houseboat'') / "Almost in Your Arms" (Philips PB 857 10" 78 rpm) *1960 – "Goodness Gracious Me" / "Grandpa's Grave" (with Peter Sellers) (Parlophone, 45-R.4702 7" 45 rpm)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lorenarchives.com/song_repertoire.html|title=lorenarchives.com|website=lorenarchives.com}}</ref> *1961 – "Zoo Be Zoo Be Zoo" / "Bangers and Mash" (with Peter Sellers) (Parlophone 45-R.4724 7" 45 rpm)
=== Albums === *1958 – ''Houseboat'' (Philips – BBL 7292) – With George Duning and Cary Grant *1960 – ''Escandalos Imperiales'' (Heliodor – 610 800) – With Maurice Chevalier *1960 – ''Peter and Sophia'' (Parlophone – PCSM 3012, LP) – with Peter Sellers *1963 – ''Poesie di Salvatore Di Giacomo'' (CAM, LP) *1972 – ''Man of La Mancha'' (United Artists Records, LP) with Peter O'Toole, James Coco, Mitch Leigh, Joe Darion
=== Compilations === *1992 – ''Le canzoni di Sophia Loren'' (CGD, 2xCD) *2006 – ''Secrets of Rome'' (Traditional Line, CD) *2009 – ''Τι Είναι Αυτό Που Το Λένε Αγάπη – Το Παιδί Και Το Δελφίνι'' (:it:Δίφωνο, CD)
=== Russian National Orchestra === *Prokofiev – ''Peter and the Wolf'', Jean-Pascal Beintus – Wolf Tracks. Mikhail Gorbachev, Bill Clinton, Sophia Loren. Russian National Orchestra – Kent Nagano. Pentatone PTC 5186011 (2003) *Prokofiev – ''Pedro y el lobo'', Jean-Pascal Beintus – Las Huellas del Lobo. Antonio Banderas, Sophia Loren, Russian National Orchestra – Kent Nagano. Pentatone PTC 5186014 (2004).
== Bibliography == * {{cite book | last = Loren | first = Sophia | date = 2015 | title = Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow; My Life | publisher=Atria Books | isbn=9781476797434 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cL7QAwAAQBAJ }} * Loren, Sophia (1998). ''Sophia Loren's Recipes and Memories'', Gt Pub Corp. {{ISBN|978-1577193678}}. * Loren, Sophia (1984). ''Women & Beauty'', Aurum Press. {{ISBN|0-688-01394-5}}. * Loren, Sophia (1972). ''In the Kitchen with Love'', Doubleday, Library of Congress Catalog Card 79–183230. * Loren, Sophia (1971), ''In Cucina con Amore'', Rizzoli Editore.
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == {{Commons}} {{Wikiquote}} * {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080515220100/http://www.sophialoren.com/ |title=Official website |date=dmy}} * {{AFI person | 141476-Sophia-Loren }} * {{IMDb name|47|Sophia Loren}} * {{Tcmdb name}} * {{Rotten Tomatoes person|sophia_loren}} * {{Discogs artist|330164}} * {{MusicBrainz artist|mbid=c9956945-54dc-450c-97ea-d024bfca2e34}} * {{In lang|fr|cap=yes}} (video) Isabelle Putod, « [http://www.ina.fr/video/VDD11013953/naissance-d-une-star-sophia-loren.fr.html Naissance d'une star : Sophia Loren] », ''Reflets sur la Croistte'', 15 mai 2011, at ''ina.fr'' * {{In lang|fr|cap=yes}} (video) [https://web.archive.org/web/20180615005041/http://archives.tsr.ch/search?q_doc-id=jeu-loren Sophia Loren during the shooting of ''Lady L''] in 1965, archived by Télévision Suisse Romande * {{In lang|fr|cap=yes}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20160419110007/http://encinematheque.net/acteurs/F42/index.asp Sophia Loren] at Encinémathèque
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