Sophia Loren, OMRI (born Sofia Villani Scicolone; 20 September 1934) is an Italian actress.
In 1962, Loren won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Two Women, along with 21 awards, becoming the first actress to win an Academy Award for a non-English-speaking performance. Loren has won 50 international awards, including an Oscar, seven Golden Globe Awards, a Grammy Award, a BAFTA Award and a Laurel Award. Her other films include: Houseboat (1958), El Cid (1961), Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963), Marriage Italian Style (1964), A Special Day (1977). She has received critical and commercial success in movies for home box-office such as Courage (1986) and in American blockbusters such as Grumpier Old Men (1995), and Nine (2009). In 1994 she starred in Robert Altman's Ready to Wear, which earned her a Golden Globe nomination in 1995. The same year she received the Cecil B. de Mille award for lifetime achievements.
In 1999, Loren was listed by the American Film Institute on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars as #21 of 25 American female screen legends of all time. In 2002, she was honored by the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) at its annual Anniversary Gala and was inducted into its Italian American Hall of Fame. In 2009, the Guinness Book of World Records recognized her as "Italy's Most Awarded Actress".
The roles that explain the career.
80 credits across 2 departments.
| Year | Title | Role | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Vittorio De Sica: Staging Life | Self (Archive Footage) | Film |
| 2020 | The Life Ahead | Madame Rosa | Film |
| 2019 | Claudia Cardinale, la créature du secret | Self (archive footage) | Film |
| 2019 | Untouchable | Self (archive footage) | Film |
| 2015 | Behind the White Glasses | Self | Film |
| 2013 | Mademoiselle C | Self | Film |
| 2012 | Girlfriend in a Coma | Mara (archive footage) (uncredited) | Film |
| 2011 | Bert Stern - Original Madman | Film | |
| 2010 | 1960 | Self (archive footage) | Film |
| 2010 | Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff | Self (archive footage) | Film |
| 2009 | Nine | Mamma | Film |
| 2006 | Too Much Romance... It's Time for Stuffed Peppers | Maria (as Sofia Loren) | Film |
| 2003 | Francesca and Nunziata | Francesca Montorsi | Film |
| 2003 | Charlie Chaplin: The Forgotten Years | Self | Film |
| 2002 | Between Strangers | Olivia | Film |
| 1997 | Soleil | Madame Levy | Film |
| 1995 | Grumpier Old Men | Maria Sophia Coletta Ragetti | Film |
| 1994 | Prêt-à-Porter | Isabella de la Fontaine | Film |
| 1990 | Saturday, Sunday and Monday | Rosa Priore | Film |
| 1989 | Running Away | Cesira | Film |
| 1986 | Courage | Marianna Miraldo | Film |
| 1979 | Firepower | Adele Tasca | Film |
| 1978 | Brass Target | Mara | Film |
| 1978 | Blood Feud | Titina Paterno | Film |
| 1977 | A Special Day | Antonietta Taberi | Film |
| 1976 | The Cassandra Crossing | Jennifer Rispoli Chamberlain | Film |
| 1976 | Brief Encounter | Anna Jesson | Film |
| 1975 | Gun Moll | Pupa | Film |
| 1974 | Jury of One | Teresa Leoni | Film |
| 1974 | The Voyage | Adriana de Mauro | Film |
| 1972 | Man of La Mancha | Dulcinea / Aldonza | Film |
| 1972 | White Sister | soeur Germana | Film |
| 1971 | Lady Liberty | Maddalena Ciarrapico | Film |
| 1970 | The Priest's Wife | Valeria Billi | Film |
| 1970 | Sunflower | Giovanna | Film |
| 1967 | More Than a Miracle | Isabella Candeloro | Film |
| 1967 | A Countess from Hong Kong | Natascha | Film |
| 1967 | Ghosts, Italian Style | Maria Gennari | Film |
| 1966 | Arabesque | Yasmin Azir | Film |
| 1966 | Judith | Judith Auerbach | Film |
| 1965 | Lady L | Lady Louise Lendale / Lady L | Film |
| 1965 | Operation Crossbow | Nora Van Ostamgen | Film |
| 1964 | Marriage Italian Style | Filumena Marturano | Film |
| 1964 | The Fall of the Roman Empire | Lucilla | Film |
| 1963 | Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow | Adelina Sbaratti / Anna Molteni / Mara | Film |
| 1963 | La Rabbia | Self (archive footage) | Film |
| 1963 | Showman | Film | |
| 1962 | Five Miles to Midnight | Lisa Macklin | Film |
| 1962 | The Condemned of Altona | Johanna von Gerlach | Film |
| 1962 | Boccaccio '70 | Zoe (segment "La riffa") | Film |
| 1961 | El Cid | Jimena | Film |
| 1961 | Madame | Catherine Hubscher | Film |
| 1960 | It Started in Naples | Lucia Curcio | Film |
| 1960 | A Breath of Scandal | Princess Olympia | Film |
| 1960 | Heller in Pink Tights | Angela Rossini | Film |
| 1960 | Two Women | Cesira | Film |
| 1960 | The Millionairess | Epifania Parerga | Film |
| 1959 | The Black Orchid | Rose Bianco | Film |
| 1959 | That Kind of Woman | Kay | Film |
| 1958 | Along the Coast | Self (archive footage) | Film |
| 1958 | Houseboat | Cinzia Zaccardi | Film |
| 1958 | Desire Under the Elms | Anna Cabot | Film |
| 1958 | The Key | Stella | Film |
| 1957 | Boy on a Dolphin | Phaedra | Film |
| 1957 | The Pride and the Passion | Juana | Film |
| 1957 | Legend of the Lost | Dita | Film |
| 1956 | What a Woman! | Antonietta Fallari | Film |
| 1955 | The Sign of Venus | Agnese | Film |
| 1955 | Scandal in Sorrento | Donna Sofia | Film |
| 1955 | The Miller's Beautiful Wife | Carmela | Film |
| 1954 | Poverty and Nobility | Gemma | Film |
| 1954 | Too Bad She's Bad | Lina Stroppiani | Film |
| 1954 | The Gold of Naples | Sofia (segment Pizza on Credit) | Film |
| 1954 | A Day in Court | Anna | Film |
| 1954 | The Anatomy of Love | Ragazza | Film |
| 1954 | Two Nights with Cleopatra | Cleopatra / Nisca | Film |
| 1954 | Attila | Honoria | Film |
| 1954 | Woman of the River | Nives Mongolini | Film |
| 1954 | Neapolitan Carousel | Sisina | Film |
| 1953 | Aida | Aida | Film |
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