Sophia Loren!

Sophia Loren (born Sofia Villani Scicolone 20 September 1934) is an Italian film actress.........

 Her talents as an actress were not recognized until her performance as Cesira in Vittorio De Sica's Two Women, Loren's performance earned her the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1962 and made her the first artist to win an Oscar for a foreign-language performance.....

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 She holds the record for having earned six David di Donatello Awards for Best Actress, the most ever received: Two Women, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, Marriage Italian Style (for which she was nominated for a second Oscar),Sunflower, The Voyage, & A Special Day. After starting her family in the early 1970s, Loren spent less time on her acting career & chose to make only occasional film appearances. In later years, she has appeared in American films such as Grumpier Old Menand Nine.

 Aside from the Academy Award, she has won a Grammy Award, five special Golden Globes, a BAFTA Award, a Laurel Award & the Honorary Academy Award in 1991. In 1995, she received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievements, one of many such awards.

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 When she was 14, Sofia entered a beauty pageant, Miss Italia 1950 & while not winning, was selected as one of the finalists. Later, she enrolled in acting class & was selected as an uncredited extra in Mervyn LeRoy's film Quo Vadis (1951), at the age of 15......

 Loren became an international film star following her five-picture contract with Paramount Pictures in 1958.

 In 1961, she 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.

 Loren's performance earned her many awards, including the Cannes Film Festival's best performance prize & an Academy Award for Best Actress, the first major Academy Award for a non-English-language performance & to an Italian actress. She won 22 international awards for Two Women. The film proved to be extremely well accepted by the critics & it was a huge commercial success.

 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 Awards. 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.

 In 1980, after the international success of the biography Sophia Loren: Living and Loving, Her Own Story by A. Hotchner, Loren portrayed herself and her mother in a made-for-television biopic 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....

 Loren first met Carlo Ponti, Sr. in 1950, when she was 15 and he was 37. They married on 17 September 1957. However, Ponti was still officially married to his first wife Giuliana under Italian law, because Italy did not recognize divorce at that time. The couple had their marriage annulled in 1962 to escape bigamy charges. In 1965, Ponti obtained a divorce from Giuliana in France, allowing him to marry Loren on 9 April 1966.

Children	Carlo Ponti, Jr., Edoardo Ponti

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