Shikolone Sophia was born in Rome. Shortly after her birth the family moved to a small fishing town of Pozzuoli, near Naples, where the childhood and youth of Sofia. As a teenager, she was called "Stekketto", meaning "perch" - for high growth andleanness. Her first step to fame began at fourteen winning the local beauty contest, then the family moved to Rome, Sofia. In 1950 he participated in the contest "Miss Italy", where he received the prize of "Miss Elegance", established by the jury for her.
During participation in the next contest Sophia met producer and future husband Carlo Ponti, who was older than her twenty-two years. Ponti was married at the time, but for a Catholic to get a divorce was a matter very difficult. Desperate towait until the Vatican approves the divorce, Carlo and Sophia secretly married inMexico. Over time, the long-awaited divorce was obtained, and April 9, 1966 Carloremarried to Sophia.
Despite advances in cinema, Sophia Loren life was marred by the lack of children and two miscarriages. For several years, she took a course of treatment for infertility, resulting in a bore in 1968, son of Carlo Ponti Jr. (now - the conductor of the Vienna orchestra), and four years later - the second son of Edward (director).
In the second half of 1970 Loren rarely appears in all of cinema, and since 1984 its role and become completely isolated. In 1979-80 published an autobiographical book and released a television movie based on her. In 1982 he was sentenced to 18 days imprisonment for tax evasion. In subsequent years, has written another book of memoirs and founded a series of perfume. In 1999 published her book "Recipes and Reminiscences."
Originally Ponty positioned his chosen as a sex bomb in such lesser-known films as "White Slave Trade" (1953). Often the effect of these films took place in the exotic surroundings, giving Loren the opportunity to flaunt before the audience in elaborate costumes. On the other hand, the future superstar is not shy about nudity, so that in a number of pictures it can be seen topless. In the early 1960s, Carlo Ponti bought all the movies young Loren, where she was naked, in order to avoid an international scandal.
By the mid-1950s, Sofia became a star and sex symbol in Italy. In Italy, the actress starred under the name Sofia Lazzaro, but in 1953 at the urging of Ponti changed it to Loren. The first film, Loren, released in hire outside Italy, was "Attila - the scourge of God" (1955) with Anthony Quinn.
The attention of serious critics Loren first came to the film by Vittorio De Sica "Gold of Naples" (1954), in which she fell into their native element, playing aspirited Neapolitan shopkeeper. The role of ordinary women from the people whom she knew as a child and one of them could be, succeeded her best and most supportive aroused critics.
It was De Sica fully discovered acting talent Sophia Loren. Almost all of the most important roles were played by it in the films of this director - "Two Women" with Jean-Paul Belmondo (1961, prize of the Cannes Film Festival and "Oscar" for Best Actress), "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" (1963), "Marriage in Italian, "(1964, prize of the Moscow festival)," Sunflowers "(1970). In the last three pictures Sophia Loren was a partner Marcello Mastroianni, with whom they were one of the most famous duos in film history.
The pinnacle of acting Sophia Loren was the performance of the role of mother in "Two Women" - neo-realist film, shot on the novel by Alberto Moravia. In oneclimactic scenes of the heroine Loren becomes the victim of brutal violence. Acting expressive and organic Loren made an impression on overseas critics, that for this role, she was awarded the "Oscar". This is the first time that prize awardedin this category for the film was shot not in English.
Since 1957, Loren regularly received offers to star in Hollywood. She is an active, though not very successfully worked for the American dream factory, under contracts with companies such as MGM and Paramount Pictures. One of her first Hollywood movie was "The Pride and the Passion" with Frank Sinatra and Cary Grant (1957). On Grant's love of the Italian actress Much has been written, but do know a little. Also a lot of speculation arose regarding marriage proposals by British actor Peter Sellers. According to some biographers, they were all just a publicity stunt.
For the filming of a Western "Certovka in pink tights" (1960), the actress was first repainted in blonde. During the failed saga of "The Fall of the Roman Empire," it was the first in the world has hit herto unheard of fee of one million dollars. In 1967, she had to play a Russian prostitute in the last film of the great Charlie Chaplin - "A Countess from Hong Kong."
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