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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