Appearing in her most recent movie with other megawatt stars like Nicole Kidman, Kate Hudson and musicians like Fergie, Sophia shines on the screen and more than "holds her own candle" to these other great female actors in Nine
Sophia plays the part of "Mama" in "Nine" which has been nominated for a number of awards including:
Satellite Award for Best Cast - Motion Picture
Nominated-Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards for Best Ensemble
Nominated-Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
She was born Sofia Villani Scicolone; on September 20, 1934.
There is clearly little chance of her slowing down in the near future as Sophia continues to power on.
The cast is quite international with actresses from Australia, America, Spain, Italy and France, among others!
What a smorgasbord a dinner with these amazing ladies would be!
Sophia Loren Bio:
Loren was born Sofia Villani Scicolone at the Clinica Regina Margherita in Rome, the 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. Romilda, Loren and sister Maria returned to Pozzuoli, near Naples, to live with Loren's grandmother in order 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.
After the war, Loren and her family returned to Pozzuoli. Grandmother Luisa opened their living room as a pub, selling homemade cherry liquor.
Villani played the piano, Maria sang and Loren waited tables and washed dishes. The place was very popular with the American GIs stationed nearby.
When she was 14 years old, Loren entered a beauty contest in Naples and, while not winning, was selected as one of the finalists.
Later she enrolled in acting class and was selected as an extra in the Mervyn LeRoy film, Quo Vadis, thus launching her career as a motion picture actress. She eventually changed her name to Sophia Loren.
In 1961, she won an Academy Award for Best Actress for Two Women, becoming the first actress to win an Academy Award for a non-English-speaking performance. Loren has also won five Golden Globe Awards and received an Honorary Academy Award in 1991.
She has won 49 international awards, including two academy awards, a grammy award and a BATFA; she is the second most awarded actress in cinema history behind Meryl Streep.
But I bet you didn't know that Sophia Loren also recorded well over two dozen songs throughout her career, including a best-selling album of comedic songs with Peter Sellers; reportedly, she had to fend off his romantic advances.
It was partly owing to Sellers' infatuation with Loren that he split with his first wife, Anne Howe.
Loren has made it clear to numerous biographers that Sellers' affections were reciprocated only platonically.
This collaboration was covered in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers where actress Sonia Aquino portrayed Loren. It is said that the song "Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)" by Peter Sarstedt was inspired by Loren.
If you ever wonder why this 70+ old woman had that effect on men, just look at the shot from the Peter Sellers movie on the right!!
Newsworthy note: Sophia Loren makes the grade as a Pirelli 2007 Calendar pin-up at age of 71
The http://www.telegraph.co.uk reported that --- The screen legend Sophia Loren has posed for the cover of the famous Pirelli calendar as she approaches her 72nd birthday.
The well-preserved Italian actress appears in a slinky see-through black dress revealing enough to distract from an impressive pair of drop-diamond earrings
The results have been described as "very tasteful". Loren has had dozens of offers to pose revealingly in a film career stretching 50 years, but has always turned them down. She accepted the Pirelli offer because of its legendary reputation.
She said: "I enjoyed myself posing as if I was a little girl again."
The calendar has been going for more than 40 years and is a limited edition publication. Last night a Pirelli spokesman in Milan said: "I can confirm that Sophia Loren has posed for the 2007 Pirelli calendar.
The pictures were shot last week in America and she looks fantastic - you wouldn't think she is nearly 72 years old."
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