La Favorita (1952) La Tratta delle Bianche (1952) Affica sotto I Mari (1953) Ci troviano in Galleria (1953) Carosello Neapolitano (1953) Tempi Nostro (1953) La Domenica delle Buono Gente (1953) Il Paese dei Campanelli (1954) Pellegrini d'Amore (1954) Miseria e Nobilita (1954) Due Notti con Cleopatra (1954) Atilla (1954) L'Oro de Napoli (1954) Un Giorno in Pretura (1954) La Donna del Fiume (1955) Peccato che sia una Canaglia (1955) Il Segno de Venere (1955) La Bella Mugnaia (1955) Pane Amore E … (1955) La Fortuna Essere Donna (1956) Boy on a Dolphin (1957) The Pride and the Passion (1957) Timbuctu (1957) Desire under the Elms (1958) The Key (1958) Houseboat (1958) The Black Orchid (1959) That Kind of Woman (1959) Heller in Pink Tights (1960) It Started in Naples (1960) A Breath of Scandal (1960) The Millionairess (1960) La Ciociara (Two Women, 1960) El Cid (1961) Madame Sans-Gëne (1961) Boccacio '70 (1962) Le Couteau dans la Plaie (1962) I Sequestrati de Altona (1962) Ieri Oggi e Domani (Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, 1963) The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) Matrimonio all'Italiana (Marriage Italian Style, 1964) Operation Crossbow (1965) Lady L (1965) Arabesque (1966) A Countess from Hong Kong (1967) C'era una Volta (1967) Questi Fontasmi (1967) I Girasoli (1969) La Moglia del Prete (1970) La Mortadella (1971) Man of La Mancha (1972) Bianco Rosso e … (1973) Il Viaggio (1974) Le Testament (1975) La Puppa del Gangster (1975) The Cassandra Crossing (1977) Una Giornata Speciale (1977) Angela (1978) Brass Target (1978) Shimmy Lugano e Tarantelle e Vino (1978) Fatto di Sangue (1979) Sabato (1990) Domenica e Lunedi (1990) Prêt-à-Porter (1994) Grumpier Old Men (1995) Messages (1996) Soleil (1997). Raised near Naples by her unmarried mother amid great poverty during World War II appeared as an extra in her first film Quo Vadis? (1949) film career began in earnest after meeting producer Carlo Ponti was rivaled only by Gina Lollobrigida as Italy's best-known actress on both sides of the Atlantic (1950s) appeared in the first of many Hollywood-made films (1958), but her finest work is still considered to be her portrayal of a mother in war-ravaged Italy in Vittorio De Sica's La Ciociara (US title: Two Women, 1960), for which she won an Oscar married Carlo Fortunato Pietro Ponti as a French citizen (1966), after a protracted legal battle with Italian authorities who refused to recognize Ponti's annulment of an earlier marriage.

Born Sofia Scicolone in Rome, Italy, on Septemdaughter of Romilda Villani and Riccardo Scicolone sister of Maria Scicolone married Carlo Ponti (a film producer), in 1966 children: two sons, Carlo Jr. Internationally renowned Italian film actress who won an Oscar for her work in Two Women.

Taking 1960 by Rosa Sophia