Bread, love and….Loren. Sophia, to be precise, Sofia, Costanza, Brigida Villani Scicolone. This is the name of the Neapolitan actress, an icon of Italian beauty throughout the world
Born in Roma but lived in Pozzuoli in Neapolitan, Sofia Loren was directed by Vittorio De Sica ne The ciociara for which he won the Oscar Prize, the first given to an Italian actress for an Italian film. Let’s remember Yesterday Today Tomorrow e Italian wedding. Throughout her career she has directed and acted alongside Marlon Brando, Clark Gable, Ettore Scola, Paul Newman, Toto, Marcello Mastroianniuntil you get the famous star on the famous Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The beginnings of Sofia Loren
Her debut was the beauty pageant at the age of fifteen with her stratospheric, soft and sensual shapes. In the 1960s she achieved international, global success, in ’99 it was Loren who delivered a Roberto Benigni the prize as Best Foreign Film per Life is Beautiful. An epic moment thanks to Benigni’s choice to reach the stage walking on the backs of the seats in the luxurious location chosen for the event.
In 2015, for his eightieth birthday, which he achieved very well, he published an autobiography. In 2020 she is the protagonist of Life ahead of youdirected by his son Edoardo Ponti.
His family
Grandmother, wife of Carlo Ponti and mother of Carlo jr and Edoardo is also aunt of Alessandra Mussolinidaughter of her sister Maria and of Romano (son of Benito). An important family, a glittering career, timeless beauty.
Doe eyes, brunette, full lips, explosive physique, Neapolitan character, dazzling smile, pizza, bread and spaghetti are her passion. Naples in her heart, she is the symbol of unparalleled beauty, a nativity scene statuette that represents her at her best, lively like few others, good, tenacious and passionate. Loren is all this concentrated in a single actress, mother, wife, grandmother, friend of all and ambassador of Naples in the world for her beauty and her innate talent.
Luck and talent
The fortune of having been directed by committed directors, the fortune of having worked alongside beautiful and talented actors, we find his famous phrases from films in which he was the protagonist, we hear them thundering in Italy but also abroad.
A few months ago a bad fall put his hip in serious danger, causing several fractures. The sudden surgery allowed her to get back on her feet in the shortest possible time. Last September she should have inaugurated the fourth restaurant in Italy dedicated to her and received honorary citizenship of the Apulian capital.
Early in her career she was told her nose was too long and her mouth was too wide. She not only opposed surgical treatments imposed in that period but she promoted natural beauty made of uniqueness, pride and self-confidence. “Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful“, he wrote in his autobiography. Icon of splendor, immense beauty and so much elegance, imitated by many of her but few of her in her presence can be considered true and beautiful Neapolitan actresses.
Her world-famous cadence has allowed her to be an ambassador of the Neapolitan city forever. A beauty with a strong character, a life also dedicated to family, to loved ones, to work which started from a passion and became her reason for living. Sofia Loren is and will always remain the Italian actress who has inspired many generations.
Beautiful, good but also very courted, reserved in her family life, she has lived around the world in beautiful villas but when she returns to Naples it is there that more than all other places she feels loved. Naples is her land, her passion, her life which like a volcano explodes and gushes with beautiful things just like everything she has built: career, success and family. Beauty, on the other hand, is a natural gift and has remained so beyond time, beyond wrinkles.