Who's Sofia Villani Scicolone? 

Sophia Loren, before she rose to be a world-class movie star. The Italian actress was born an illegitimate child, her mother being a frustrated performer, with whom Loren spent her early years in the slums of Naples. At the age of 14, Loren started her career in show business with a little break - she won a beauty contest, for which she was awarded a train ticket to Rome, and 23,000 lira (about $35).

Commenting on her humble beginnings, Loren said: "The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty."
 

As for her glamour as a movie star, Loren observed: "Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got."

 

 
Name: Sophia Loren
Birth Name: Sofia Villani Scicolone
Height: 5' 8
Birth Date: September 20, 1934
Birth Place: Rome, Italy

Loren won the first Academy Award for a foreign-language performance for her role in Two Women (1961), and she received a special Academy Award in 1991 for her life-long achievement.

Her works make a rather long list:

Grumpier Old Men — 1995
Ready To Wear (Prêt-à-Porter) — 1994
Saturday, Sunday and Monday — 1990
Running Away — 1989
Michael Jackson: The Legend Continues — 1989
The Fortunate Pilgrim — 1988
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema — 1987
Courage — 1986
Qualcosa di Biondo — 1985
Aurora — 1984
Sophia Loren: Her Own Story — 1980
A Blood Feud — 1979
Firepower — 1979
Blood Feud — 1979
Brass Target — 1978
The Cassandra Crossing — 1977
Angela — 1977
A Special Day — 1977
Verdict — 1974
Gun Moll — 1974
Brief Encounter — 1974
The Voyage — 1973
White Sister — 1973
Mortadella/Lady Liberty — 1972
Man of La Mancha — 1972
Lady Liberty — 1971
The Priest's Wife — 1970
Sunflower — 1970
Ghosts--Italian Style — 1967
Cinderella: Italian Style — 1967
A Countess From Hong Kong — 1967
More Than a Miracle — 1967
Arabesque — 1966
Judith — 1966
Lady L — 1965
Operation Crossbow — 1965
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow — 1964
Marriage Italian Style — 1964
The Fall of the Roman Empire — 1964
The Condemned of Altona — 1963
Madame — 1963
Five Miles to Midnight — 1962
Boccaccio '70 — 1962
Madame Sans-Gêne — 1961
El Cid — 1961
Two Women — 1961
The Millionairess — 1960
It Started in Naples — 1960
Heller in Pink Tights — 1960
A Breath of Scandal — 1960
That Kind of Woman — 1959
The Black Orchid — 1959
The Key — 1958
Houseboat — 1958
Desire Under the Elms — 1958
The Pride and the Passion — 1957
Legend of the Lost — 1957
Boy on a Dolphin — 1957
Woman of the River — 1955
The Sign of Venus — 1955
Scandal in Sorrento — 1955
Lucky To Be a Woman — 1955
The Miller's Wife — 1955
Too Bad She's Bad — 1955
Poverty and Nobility — 1954
The Gold of Naples — 1954
Attila the Hun — 1954
The Anatomy of Love — 1953
We'll Meet in the Gallery — 1953
Neopolitan Carousel — 1953
Good People's Sunday — 1953
The Country of Bells — 1953
Pilgrim of Love — 1953
Two Nights With Cleopatra — 1953
Aida — 1953
La Favorita — 1952
Africa Under the Seas — 1952
The White Slave Trade — 1952
Milana the Millionairess — 1951
The Dream of Zorro — 1951
The Piano Tuner Has Arrived — 1951
It's Him . . . Yes. Yes! — 1951
The Magician in Spite of Himself — 1951
Quo Vadis — 1951
Anna — 1951
Hearts Upon the Sea — 1950
The Vote — 1950
Bluebeard's Six Wives — 1950
Io Sono il Capatz — 1950

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