Encouraged to enroll in acting lessons after entering a beauty pageant, Loren began her film career at age 16 in 1950. She appeared in several bit parts and minor roles in the early part of the decade, until her five-picture contract with Paramount in 1956 launched her international career.

2021年3月21日 · Sophia Loren (born in1934, Rome, Italy), is an Italian film actress who rose above her poverty-stricken origins in postwar Naples to become universally recognized as one of Italy’s most beautiful women and its most famous movie star. She was named by the American Film Institute as one of the greatest female stars of Classical Hollywood cinema.

2014年9月16日 · Early Life. Actress Sophia Loren was born Sofia Villani Scicolone on September 20, 1934 in Rome, Italy.

2014年9月19日 · Humble beginnings and early stardom. Sophia Loren was born Sofia Villani Scicolone on September 20, 1934. It appears that she was quite a wispy, skinny girl before her teenage years — hard to believe today. Her parents were Romilda and Riccardo and, due to a previous marriage when the law did not allow divorce in Italy, the couple did not marry.

Sophia Loren (born September 20, 1934, Rome, Italy) is an Italian film actress who rose above her poverty-stricken origins in postwar Naples to become universally recognized as one of Italy’s most beautiful women and its most famous movie star.

2021年2月8日 · Although she may not have exactly grown up in any sort of glitz or glamour, Sophia Loren knew she wanted to act at quite an early age. One of her influences? Her mother, Romilda Villani. According to Variety, Villani greatly resembled Greta Garbo in appearance.

2023年9月20日 · Celebrate the Italian icon's 90th birthday on Sept. 20, 2024, with a look back on her storied life. Sophia Loren in 1959. Photo: Raised by a single mom in a tiny town outside of Naples, Italy,...

In 1957, Loren starred in her first Hollywood film, ‘The Pride and the Passion’. She rose to fame with the Italian World War II film ‘Two Women’. Throughout the 70s, 80s and 90s, Loren appeared in some of the super hit movies. She won the Best Actress Academy Award for the film Two Women in 1961 and an Academy Honorary Award in 1991.

2022年9月23日 · Sophia Loren's Early Life And Career Beginnings. Sophia Loren was born Sofia Costanza Brigida Villani Scicolone in Rome on September 20, 1934, to single mother Romilda Villani. She grew up poor in the slums of Pozzuoli, Naples during …

Sophia Loren, born Sofia Villani Scicolone, entered the world on September 20, 1934, in Rome, Italy. Her humble beginnings in poverty-stricken Pozzuoli formed the backdrop for her rise to stardom. In 1961, Sophia Loren became the first actor to win an Academy Award for a foreign-language performance.