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    Born in Rome， Italy and grew up in Pozzuoli near Naples， her mother's birthplace

    Entered a beauty contest in Naples and was elected as one of the finalists

    Selected as an extra in Quo Vadis， thus launching her career as a motion picture actress
    Met Carlo Ponti

    First starring role in Africa sotto i mari

    Too Bad She's Bad， the first of films in which she costarred with Marcello Mastroianni

    Received critical acclaim for La donna del fiume

    Began to rise in Hollywood， with the films Boy on a Dolphin (U. S. film debut) and The Pride and the Passion in which she costarred with Cary Grant and Frank Sinatra
    Married with Ponti (the Mexican wedding was declared void in ， they married again in

    Venice Film Festival: Best Actress， The Black Orchid

    Cannes Film Festival: Best Actress， Two Women ()
    Academy Award (Oscar): Best Actress， Two Women

    Starred in Sunflower

    Starred in A Special Day

    Received Academy Honorary Award for her contribution

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    Sophia Loren's Early Years

    Born in Rome, Italy, on Sept. 20, , Loren finished as a finalist in the Miss Italia contest, and later enrolled in acting classes. She soon landed a bit part as an extra in Mervyn LeRoy’s Quo Vadis, which launched her career as a professional actress.

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    Before rising to international fame after signing a five-picture contract with Paramount Pictures in , she worked on a series of Italian films.

    By , she was starring in multiple movies a year, sharing the screen with Angela Lansbury, Clark Gable, Charlton Heston and more.

    Sophia Loren in 'Two Women'

    "I was 25 when inom did Two Women. The character was so powerful," Loren recalled to PEOPLE in of her star turn, a dramatic and devastating World War II film. "I didn't need to think about it. Even though I was little during the War, I had lived it."

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    Sophia Loren

    Italian actress (born )

    Sofia Costanza Brigida Villani Scicolone (Italian:[soˈfiːavilˈlaːniʃʃikoˈloːne]; born 20 September ), known professionally as Sophia Loren (lə-REN;[1]Italian:[ˈlɔːren]), is an Italian and French actress, active in her native country and the United States. With a career spanning over 70 years, she is one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema.[2]

    Encouraged to enroll in acting lessons after entering a beauty pageant, Loren began her film career at age 16 in She appeared in several bit parts and minor roles in the early part of the decade, until her five-picture contract with Paramount in launched her international career. Her film appearances around this time include The Pride and the Passion, Houseboat, and It Started in Naples. During the s, she starred in films as a sexually emancipated persona and was one of the best known sex symbols of the time.

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