Sophia Loren is a legendary Italian actress and model who is worth a net of $150 million. Sophia Loren began acting in films at the age of a young girl, before signing five-film contracts with Paramount which led her into global fame. Her credits include "Marriage Italian Style," "Sunflower," and "Two Women," the latter which earned the actress an Academy Award for Best Actress.Sophia Loren was born Sofia Villani Scicolone in 1934, in Rome, Italy. Her parents were Romilda Villani who was a piano teacher and Riccardo Scicolone, who was an engineer of construction from a noble lineage. Loren's parents were never married and her father left the family without financial support. At the age of 15, Loren entered the 1950 Miss Italia beauty pageant under the name of Sofia Lazzaro; selected as one of the three contestants and given the title of "Miss Elegance." She continued to use the name Lazzaro and attended the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Italy's film school of nationality. In 1951, she was uncredited in "Quo Vadis," an epic historical drama. Around this time, Loren had bit parts in Italian films like "Brief Rapture,"
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