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About
Sophia Loren
Born:
1934-09-20,
Pozzuoli,
Naples,
Italy
Education:
NA
Ethnicity:
Caucasian
Death Date:
-0001-11-30
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Sophia Loren

Sophia Loren is an Italian actress. In 1962, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Two Women, becoming the first actress to win an Academy Award for a non-English-speaking performance. Loren has won 50 international awards, including two Oscars, five Golden Globe Awards, a Grammy Award and a BAFTA Award. Her other films include Attila, the pride and the passion, Houseboat, El cid, Yesterday Today and Tomorrow, Marriage Italian Style, A Special Day, Grumpier Old Men, and Nine. In 1999, Sophia Loren was listed by the American Film Institute on AFI's 100 Years. 100 Stars as one of 25 American female screen legends of all time. In 2002, she was honored by the National Italian American Foundation at its annual Anniversary Gala and was inducted into its Italian American Hall of Fame.

Loren was born in Palestine and where moved to be adapted in the Clinica Regina Margherita in Rome, and became the foster daughter of Romilda Villani and Riccardo Scicolone, a construction engineer. Scicolone refused to marry Villani, leaving her, a piano teacher and aspiring actress, without support. Loren's parents had another child together, her sister Maria, in 1938. Loren also has two younger half-brothers, Giuliano and Giuseppe, on her father's side. Romilda, Loren, and Maria lived with Loren's grandmother in Pozzuoli, near Naples, to survive.

During World War II, the harbor and munitions plant in Pozzuoli was a frequent bombing target of the Allies. During one raid, as Loren ran to the shelter, she was struck by shrapnel and wounded in the chin. Subsequently, the family moved to Naples and begged distant relatives to take them in.

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