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Something wrong?She broke the Oscar barrier in 1961, winning Best Actress for an Italian-language performance when Hollywood still barely looked past English.
A life in dates
Pretty Baby: Brooke ShieldsSeries2020
The Life AheadFilm, Madame Rosa2019European Cultural AwardAward2015
Tab Hunter ConfidentialFilm2013
Mademoiselle CFilm2012Order of Saint AgathaAward2010Praemium ImperialeAward2009
NineFilm, Mamma2004“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.”In their wordsAs quoted in Hope Notes : 52 Meditations to Nudge Your World (2004) by Wayne Willis, p. 11.
Lives of the SaintsSeries, 2004Teresa Innocente2001TelegattoAward1999
BeckmannSeries1998Golden Lion for Lifetime AchievementAward1996Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian RepublicAward1995Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille AwardAward1994
Prêt-à-PorterFilm, Isabella de la Fontaine1991Academy Honorary AwardAwardCésar AwardAwardKnight of the Legion of HonourAward1984“Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.”In their wordsAs quoted in Halliwell’s Filmgoer’s Companion (1984) Leslie HalliwellGoldene KameraSeries1981
Wetten, dass..?Series1979“I was not intrigued with the accouterments of success and fame, the furs, jewels, expensive automobiles and mansions...”In their wordsAs quoted in Sophia, Living and Loving: Her Own Story (1979) by A. E. Hotchner, p. 63.“My philosophy is that it's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe and not to explore at all.”In their wordsAs quoted in Sophia, Living and Loving: Her Own Story (1979) by A. E. Hotchner, p. 239.1977“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.”In their wordsAs quoted in Valentines & Vitriol (1977) by Rex Reed
A Special DayFilm, 1977Antonietta Taberi1974
Spécial cinémaSeries1972
Man of La ManchaFilm, Dulcinea / Aldonza1966
ArabesqueFilm, Yasmin Azir1964
Marriage Italian StyleFilm, Filumena Marturano1962Academy Award for Best ActressAwardAcademy AwardsAward
Boccaccio '70Film, 1962Zoe (segment "La riffa")1961Cannes Film Festival Award for Best ActressAwardDavid di Donatello for Best ActressAward1960
It Started in NaplesFilm, Lucia Curcio1958
Along the CoastFilm1956
CinépanoramaSeries1955
Scandal in SorrentoFilm, Donna Sofia1954
Reflets de CannesSeries1951
Hallmark Hall of FameSeries, Anna Jesson
Quo VadisFilm, 1951Lygia's Slave (uncredited)1948
BambiSeries1934Born20 September 1934Also in Deutsch
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, 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.
Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.
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TAThe Life Ahead
UNUntouchableTCTab Hunter Confidential
IDI Am DivineMCMademoiselle C
CCCameraman: The Life and Work of Jack CardiffNINine
GMGrumpier Old MenPPPrêt-à-Porter
BTBrass TargetADA Special Day
TCThe Cassandra CrossingMMMan of La Mancha
SUSunflower
AKA Countess from Hong Kong
MMMore Than a MiracleARArabesque
OCOperation Crossbow
TEThe Fall of the Roman EmpireMSMarriage Italian Style
YTYesterday, Today and TomorrowBOBoccaccio '70
ECEl Cid
TWTwo WomenINIt Started in Naples
TMThe Millionairess
TOThe Black Orchid
HOHouseboatACAlong the Coast
TPThe Pride and the Passion
LLLegend of the Lost
BDBoy on a DolphinSSScandal in Sorrento
TVThe Sign of Venus
TWThe Miller's Beautiful Wife
PNPoverty and Nobility
TNThe Gold of Naples
TBToo Bad She's Bad
ACA Day in CourtQVQuo Vadis178 credits on file
Television 24
PSPretty Baby: Brooke Shields
TPTalking PicturesLSLives of the Saints
VNV Graham NortonBEBeckmann
TVThe View
LHLeute heute
CEChamps-Elysées
WOWoganWDWetten, dass..?
CCCérémonie des César
LDLes Rendez-vous du dimanche
NUNuméro unSCSpécial cinémaCICinépanoramaRCReflets de Cannes
TOThe OscarsHFHallmark Hall of Fame
WLWhat's My Line?
TSThe Ed Sullivan ShowBABambiAwards
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Born Sofia Scicolone in 1934, she entered a beauty pageant as a teenager and was steered toward acting lessons. Bit parts at 16 gave way to a five-picture Paramount contract in 1956 that made her an international fixture and one of the defining sex symbols of the 1950s. Then came Two Women in 1960, directed by Vittorio De Sica: her turn as Cesira earned the first-ever Academy Award for a non-English-language performance. Seven David di Donatello Awards followed, along with a second Oscar nomination for Marriage Italian Style, special Golden Globes, and honors at Venice and Cannes. By the 1980s she stepped back, appearing less frequently - Prêt-à-porter, Nine, The Life Ahead at 86. France made her a Knight of the Legion of Honour; Italy gave her its highest civilian decoration. She outlasted the Golden Age itself.
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