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Jul 10, 2023 · Romilda Villani passed away on May 9, 1991, in Rome, Italy after a long illness. She was 81 years old at the time of her passing. Loren revealed she met with her father three times, at age five, age seventeen, and in 1976 at his deathbed, stating that she forgave him but had never forgotten his abandonment and poor treatment of her mother.
Sofia Costanza Brigida Villani Scicolone OMRI (Italian: [soˈfiːa vilˈlaːni ʃʃikoˈloːne]; born 20 September 1934), known professionally as Sophia Loren (/ l ə ˈ r ɛ n / lə-REN, Italian:), is an Italian actress, active in her native country and the United States.
May 13, 1991 · Romilda Villani, mother of Oscar-winning movie star Sophia Loren, died Thursday after a long illness. She was 81. Villani died in Rome and funeral services were held Saturday, Italian news...
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Sophia Loren was born as Sofia Scicolone at the Clinica Regina Margherita in Rome, Italy, on September 20, 1934. Her father, Riccardo Scicolone, was married to another woman and refused to marry her mother, Romilda Villani, despite the fact that she was the mother of his two children (Sophia and her younger sister Maria Scicolone). Growing up in th...
By her late teens, Sophia was playing lead roles in many Italian features such as La favorita (1952) and Aida (1953). In 1957, she embarked on a successful acting career in the United States, starring in Boy on a Dolphin (1957), Legend of the Lost (1957), and The Pride and the Passion (1957) that year. She had a short-lived but much-publicized flin...
From the eighties onward, Sophia's appearances on the big screen came few and far between. She preferred to spend the majority of her time raising sons Carlo Jr. (b. 1969) and Eduardo (b. 1973). Her only acting credits during the decade were five television films, beginning with Sophia Loren: Her Own Story (1980), a biopic in which she portrayed he...
In 1991 Sophia received an Honorary Academy Award for her body of work, and was declared \"one of world cinema's greatest treasures.\" Later that year, she experienced a great loss when her mother died of cancer. Her return to mainstream films in Ready to Wear (1994) (\"Ready to Wear\") was well-received, although the film as a whole was not. She f...
- September 20, 1934
Jul 23, 2021 · Her mother, Romilda Villani—whom 75-year-old Sophia portrays in this biopic in a spectacular twist—won a chance for stardom in Hollywood that her parents forced her to turn down. So when she gives birth to Sophia out of wedlock, she uses her grit and tenacity to ensure Sophia’s success.
May 13, 1991 · Romilda Villani, 81, mother of Oscar-winning movie star Sophia Loren, died Thursday in Rome after a long illness. Ms. Villani, considered a Greta Garbo look-alike, was said to have...
Her father Riccardo was married to another woman and refused to marry her mother Romilda Villani, despite the fact that she was the mother of his two children (Sophia and her younger sister Maria Scicolone). Growing up in the slums of Pozzuoli during the second World War...
