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Sofia Costanza Brigida Villani Scicolone (September 20, 1934) is an Italian actress. She was named by the American Film Institute as one of the greatest female stars of Classical Hollywood cinema. Encouraged to enroll in acting lessons after entering a beauty pageant, Loren began her film career at age sixteen in 1950. She appeared in several bit parts and minor roles in the early part of the decade, until her fivepicture contract with Paramount in 1956 launched her international career. Her film appearances around this time include The Pride and the Passion, Houseboat, and It Started in Naples. During the 1950s, she starred in films as a sexually emancipated persona and was one of the best known sex symbols of the time. Loren s performance as Cesira in the film Two Women (1961) directed by Vittorio De Sica won her the Academy Award for Best Actress, making her the first actor to win an Oscar for a nonEnglishlanguage performance. She holds the record for having earned seven David di Donatello Aw