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Sofia Villani Scicolone was born on 20 September 1934, in Rome, Italy. She is an actress perhaps best known for her appearances in films such as “The Pride and the Passion” and “It Started in Naples”. One of her most notable films was “Two Women”, for which she won an Academy Award for Best Actress. She’s also won multiple awards aside from that, and all of her efforts have helped in raising her net worth.

How rich is Sophia Loren? As of early-2016, sources inform of a net worth that is at $75 million, mostly earned through a successful career in acting. She’s acted in numerous films throughout her life, and has worked with other big names in Hollywood, earning her recognition not only in Italy but worldwide as well. She’s written an autobiography which has somewhat helped with her wealth.

Loren was born into unusual circumstances, with a father from nobility who refused to marry her mother, who was an aspiring actress. During World War II, Sophia was hit by shrapnel which led to the family moving to Naples for a while. They returned after the war to open a pub where she waited tables and washed the dishes. Her career would begin at the age of 14, when she entered Miss Italia 1950, a beauty pageant. She didn’t win, but became one of the finalists, and later tried her hand at acting classes. She appeared in minor roles first before starring in the 1953 film “Aida”, which got her noticed. This continued with films including “Two Nights with Cleopatra” and “The Gold of Naples”.

In 1958, Paramount Pictures would offer Loren a five-picture contract which would earn her international recognition. She starred in “Desire Under the Elms, “Houseboat”, and “Heller in Pink Tights”. In 1961, she was cast in “Two Women”, and her performance earned her a Cannes Film Festival best performance award and also an Academy Award for Best Actress. She won over 22 awards for her portrayal, and became one of the top actresses in the world at that time, increasing her net worth further.

She continued to make films, at this point moving between the United States and Europe to shoot. A few of the films she made were “El Cid” with Charlton Heston, “Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow”, and “A Countess from Hong Kong” with Marlon Brando. After she had children, Loren lessened her time in films, and would focus more on roles in Italy. A few of the films she had during this period were “Brief Encounter”, “The Cassandra Crossing” and “A Special Day”, which was nominated for almost a dozen awards, increasing Sophia’s collection. She starred in “Brass Target” in 1978 in which she won another Golden Globe, and later her biography entitled “Sophia Loren: Living and Loving, Her Own Story” was published. Into the ’80s and ’90s, she continued to work and was eventually declared a “cinema treasure”. One of her latest films is “Nine” in 2009, which also stars Kate Hudson, Nicole Kidman and Daniel Day-Lewis.

For her personal life, it is known that she married Carlo Ponti, Sr., in 1957 with a very large age gap. Carlo was married previously and had to have it annulled to avoid charges, so the two remarried in 1966. They had two children, and they remained married until his death in 2007. Loren also had an affair with Cary Grant whom she met while filming “Houseboat” in 1957. The affair ended on a bad note, and Loren decided to marry Carlo soon after. Other than that, Sophia is a Roman Catholic and stays mostly in Geneva, Switzerland.

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• Oh, how I loved the movies as a little girl. Particularly I loved Yvonne De Carlo – she was my favorite. Others, too, like Rita Hayworth, but I used to dream that I was Yvonne De Carlo. And I liked that little one – what was her name? – June Allyson, too. But for me there was only one Yvonne De Carlo.
• [on meeting Madonna at the premiere of Ready to Wear (1994)] I only met her once, at a premiere. I was waiting outside with a group of people, surrounded by photographers, and she was walking towards us. I said, “Madonna, come here,” because she looked so alone, and we were photographed together. She was charming and very respectful to me, but you know, she looked very lonely.
• [to Barbara Walters in 2000] I am not Italian, I am a Neapolitan!
• [2014, on a famous 1957 photo of her stink-eyeing Jayne Mansfield’s cleavage] Listen. Look at the picture. Where are my eyes? I’m staring at her nipples because I am afraid they are about to come onto my plate. In my face, you can see the fear. I’m so frightened that everything in her dress is going to blow–BOOM!–and spill all over the table.
• [her advice to young actresses] Learn how to kiss. Now they kiss like they are devouring each other. They should see how people like Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant kiss. Do they eat each other’s faces? No.
• [on Demi Moore] She dares, and I like a person who dares.
• [on having made the drama film Two Women (1960)] I said before I am not a sexy pot. Now I can prove it.
• [on why she, a nominee, could not attend the 1961 Academy Awards] I decided that I could not bear the ordeal of sitting in plain view of millions of viewers while my fate was being judged. If I lost, I might faint for disappointment. If I won, I would also very likely faint with joy. I decided it would be better to faint at home.
• There IS a Fountain of Youth: It is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
• I hated my father all my life but in his final days I forgave him for all the suffering he caused us. As you grow older, marry, and have children of you own, you learn and forget. I do not forget easily, but I do forgive.
• I’ve never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don’t understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
• The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn’t know what war is except from television.
• I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.
• Sharon Stone talks about sex as if it were a bowl of spaghetti or a pizza. Those things are private, you need to have a little discretion.
• Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.
• Hate is unfulfilled love.
• [on Gina Lollobrigida] Gina’s personality is limited. She is good playing a peasant but is incapable of playing a lady. That said, I don’t think she’s positively mad about me. Because I’m bigger than she? It’s possible. Who knows?
• [on Cary Grant] I learned many things working with Cary Grant. He has such tremendous concentration. Many actors do not have the courage to stand still. Cary Grant knows how to concentrate, how to look directly at you, but always with great relaxation.
• [on Gregory Peck] One of the most charming men I’ve ever met.
• [on Marcello Mastroianni] Marcello is a man who thinks like a man, talks like a man — is a man! He has so much magnetism, he brings out the very soul in a woman.
• [on Tyrone Power] Tyrone Power was my ideal man.
• Many people think they want things, but they don’t really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough.
• A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
• A woman’s dress should be like a barbed wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
• Cooking is an act of love, a gift, a way of sharing with others the little secrets — “piccoli segreti” — that are simmering on the burners.
• [on why she did not pose nude in the 2007 Pirelli calendar] When Sophia Loren is naked, that is a lot of nakedness.
• [on adultery] It’s a game I never play.
• Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.
• The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
• Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.
• Sex appeal is 50% what you’ve got and 50% what people think you’ve got.

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• Sophia first learned of her Oscar win for Two Women (1960) from erstwhile co-star and paramour Cary Grant who called her home in Italy from Los Angeles with the news. Greer Garson had accepted the statuette on her behalf (Santa Monica Civic Auditorium / April 9, 1962).
• As of 2016, she is the seventh earliest surviving recipient of a Best Actress Oscar nomination, tied with Piper Laurie and behind only Olivia de Havilland, Leslie Caron, Carroll Baker, Joanne Woodward, Shirley MacLaine and Doris Day. She was nominated (and won) in 1961 for Two Women (1960).
• Despite being Italian, she was dubbed by Lidia Simoneschi and Rita Savagnone in the Italian versions of most of her films.
• Her eldest son Carlo Ponti Jr. weighed 3.487050 Kilos or 7 lbs 11 oz at birth as announced in the January 10, 1969 Milestones column of that weeks issue of Time magazine.
• For her 80th birthday in 2014, her son, Carlo Ponti Jr.. commissioned a symphony to be written by Daniel Brewbaker. “Sinfonietta per Sofia” (“for love and laughter”) was performed in the Napa Valley in 2014 with Carlo Ponti Jr. conducting the orchestra.
• Because of her love for actor Tyrone Power, she saw the romance drama Blood and Sand (1941) twenty times.
• Yvonne De Carlo inspired her to become an actress.
• Was mentioned in a song entitled “Oh Boy” by Allan Sherman.
• Is one of six performers with multiple Oscar nominations for foreign language films; the others are Marcello Mastroianni for Divorce Italian Style (1961), A Special Day (1977) and Oci ciornie (1987) (Italian), Liv Ullmann for The Emigrants (1971) and Face to Face (1976) (Swedish), Isabelle Adjani for The Story of Adele H (1975) and Camille Claudel (1988) (French), Javier Bardem for Before Night Falls (2000) and Biutiful (2010) (Spanish), and Marion Cotillard for La Vie en Rose (2007) and Deux jours, une nuit (2014) (French). Loren was nominated for her performances in Two Women (1960) (for which she won) and Marriage Italian Style (1964) (Italian), she and Marion Cotillard are the only atresses to win a Best Actress Oscar for a foreign-language film, they also appeared together in the film Nine (2009).
• Was the 55th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Actress Oscar for Two Women (1960) at The 34th Annual Academy Awards (1962) on April 9, 1962.
• Is one of 14 Best Actress Oscar winners to have not accepted their Academy Award in person, Loren’s being for Two Women (1960). The others are Katharine Hepburn, Claudette Colbert, Joan Crawford, Judy Holliday, Vivien Leigh, Anna Magnani, Ingrid Bergman, Anne Bancroft, Patricia Neal, Elizabeth Taylor, Maggie Smith, Glenda Jackson and Ellen Burstyn.
• (September 17, 1999) Filed a lawsuit against 76 websites for using “fraudulent photographs” of her on adult sites.
• Delivered both her sons, Carlo Ponti Jr. and Edoardo Ponti, via Caesarean section.
• Was 1 month pregnant with her son Edoardo Ponti when she completed filming Man of La Mancha (1972).
• Returned to work 7 months after giving birth to her son Edoardo Ponti to begin filming The Voyage (1974).
• She was awarded a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars in Palm Springs, California on January 9, 1994.
• She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7050 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 1, 1994.
• Turned down an offer to appear in the Western comedy 4 for Texas (1963) and a $1-million fee for four weeks’ work.
• Turned down the title role in Barbarella (1968).
• Attended the September 1992 funeral of former co-star Anthony Perkins.
• Has four grandchildren: Lucia (born May 12, 2006) and Leonardo (born December 20, 2010) from son Edoardo Ponti and his wife Sasha Alexander; Vittorio (born April 3, 2007) and Beatrice (born March 15, 2012) from son Carlo Ponti Jr. and his wife Andrea Meszaros.
• Her father Riccardo died of cancer in 1976.
• Has played the love interest of a much older man in the majority of her films, the most illustrative example being It Started in Naples (1960) with Clark Gable when she was 25 and he was 59.
• Husband Carlo Ponti was two years older than Sophia’s mother.
• Turned down roles that went to Joan Collins on Dynasty (1981) and Gina Lollobrigida on Falcon Crest (1981).
• Mother-in-law of Sasha Alexander and Andrea Mezaros.
• Was amongst those considered for the role of Lara Antipova in Doctor Zhivago (1965), which ultimately went to Julie Christie.
• Godmother of Drew Barrymore.
• Her sister Maria Scicolone was once married to dictator Benito Mussolini’s son, Romano Mussolini.
• Is one of five performers to win an Oscar playing a character that spoke mostly in a foreign language. The other are Marion Cotillard, Robert De Niro, Roberto Benigni and Benicio Del Toro.
• The Best Actress Oscar she won for Two Women (1960) was stolen by thieves from her Italian villa. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) later replaced it for a small fee.
• Being one of the contestants at the 1950 Miss Italia competition, she earned the second place and was awarded “Miss Eleganza”.
• Hating beauty salons, she does her hair and nails herself.
• Owns an apartment in the Trump World Tower in New York City.
• Was mentioned in the song “I Shall Be Free” by Bob Dylan on his 1963 album “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan”.
• Has appeared in the 2007 edition of the famous Pirelli Calendar at age 72, making her the oldest model in its history.
• Being a huge fan of soccer club S.S.C. Napoli, she told the daily “Gazzetta dello Sport”, when the team was just third in Serie B, that she would do a striptease if they achieved promotion to Serie A for the next season. When they managed to achieve promotion, she explained that she had made just a joke. [June 2007]
• Cited as one of Drew Barrymore’s early role models. Loren was close friends with Drew’s godmother Anna Strasberg (wife of famed acting coach Lee Strasberg). Anna would bring young Drew–from age 8 until she was 12–to Sophia’s ranch outside Los Angeles, where Drew would spend summers with Loren’s two sons (Jane magazine interview March 2007).
• She and Marcello Mastroianni appeared in 11 movies together: The Miller’s Beautiful Wife (1955), Fatto di sangue fra due uomini per causa di una vedova. Si sospettano moventi politici (1978), What a Woman! (1956), A Special Day (1977), I girasoli (1970), Ieri oggi domani (1963), Marriage Italian Style (1964), La moglie del prete (1970), Peccato che sia una canaglia (1955), Ready to Wear (1994) and La pupa del gangster (1975).
• (February 10, 2006) One of eight women, also among them Susan Sarandon and author Isabel Allende, carrying the Olympic flag at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games’ opening ceremony in Turin.
• Was president of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1966.
• Received an honorary citizenship in her hometown of Pozzuoli, Italy on June 22, 2005 (she gave up her Italian citizenship and became a French citizen years ago because of legal and tax problems she and her husband incurred in Italy).
• Her “Best Actress” Academy Award was the first Oscar ever given for a performance in a “foreign-language” film.
• At times, male actors have been hesitant to appear with her, due to the fact that she stands nearly 5’9″ and wears towering heels and tall hair that can make her look over 6 feet tall.
• Was named #21 Actress on The American Film Institute’s 50 Greatest Screen Legends.
• Won a Grammy Award in 2004 for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for her work in “Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf/Beintus” along with former US President Bill Clinton and former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev.
• Her mother named her after her paternal grandmother. When Sophia’s father abandoned her, her maternal grandmother began calling her “Lella”.
• Her adopted surname is a slight variation of “Toren” after the Swedish actress Märta Torén.
• Her mother won an all-Italy Greta Garbo lookalike contest run by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1932; but, being only 17 years old, her mother would not allow her to pursue her Hollywood dream. Soon after, she became pregnant with Sofia.
• Had two miscarriages prior to her first-born son Carlo Ponti Jr. Because of these complications, she had to have complete bed rest throughout her first and second successful pregnancies.
• Suffered from stage fright and, therefore, never appeared in a theatrical production.
• Has one sister, Maria Scicolone (born 1938); and two half-brothers, Giuliano Scicolone (born 1943) and Giuseppe Scicolone (born 1946).
• While filming Boy on a Dolphin (1957), Sophia was required to walk in a trench in order to give audiences the impression that her diminutive co-star, Alan Ladd, was taller than she.
• (September 17, 1957) Carlo Ponti obtained a Mexican divorce from his first wife and married Sophia by proxy, while she was in Hollywood, filming Houseboat (1958) – and dating co-star Cary Grant.
• She performed two duets with Peter Sellers which were major hits in the UK pop chart. “Goodness Gracious Me” was released in 1960 and reached four and “Bangers and Mash” made it to the top 20 in 1961.
• She did not get along with Marlon Brando during the shooting of A Countess from Hong Kong (1967), especially after the day they were doing a love scene and he commented, “Did you know you have hairs up your nostrils?”.
• Derives great pleasure from rolling her bare feet over a wooden rolling pin while watching television.
• Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#25) (1995).
• She may have been the voluptuous sex goddess as an adult, by until age 14, she was a skinny child and considered an ugly duckling, nicknamed “The Stick” and “Toothpick”.
• She served an 18-day prison sentence in Italy in 1982 for tax evasion.
• She had her marriage annulled to save Carlo Ponti from bigamy charges in Italy.
• Chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World (1991).
• Mother of Carlo Ponti Jr. and Edoardo Ponti. Father is Carlo Ponti.
• Daughter of Romilda Villani.

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