Sophia Loren

Actress Sophia Loren Full Name: Sophia Loren [Sofia Villani Scicolone]
Nationality:

Italian

Profession: Actress
Why Famous: International film star and Italy's most renowned and honored actress. Her deglamorized performance as Cesira in Vittorio De Sica's "Two Women" 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.

Born: September 20, 1934 (83 years old)
Star Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Rome, Italy

Married Life

  • 1957-09-17 Italian actress Sophia Loren (22) weds Carlo Ponti
  • 1966-04-09 Sophia Loren marries married Carlo Ponti in Paris

Historical Events in the Life of Sophia Loren

  • 1957-09-17 Two male attorneys "stand in" as actress Sophia Loren & producer Carlo Ponti wed by proxy in Juarez, Mexico
  • 1962-04-09 34th Academy Awards: "West Side Story", Sophia Loren & Maximillian Schell win
  • 1982-05-19 Sophia Loren jailed in Naples for tax evasion

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