September 20, 2024 | 00.12
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To celebrate his 90th birthday Sophia Loren has chosen Rome. “I love this city, where it all began. I arrived in Rome with my mother when I was 15 and I started working as an extra. It was a choice that changed the course of my life”, confides the diva. So in the Capital today, on her birthday, her sons Edoardo and Carlo Ponti, her daughters-in-law, her four grandchildren, who will meet with her sister Maria Scicolone and her granddaughters, Alessandra and Elisabetta Mussolini for a family celebration.
Loren’s 90th birthday will also be celebrated by the Ministry of Culture, Cinecittà and Archivio Luce with a special, strictly private event at The Space Cinema Moderno in Rome. The most beloved Italian actress of all time will be honored with a prestigious and unprecedented award dedicated to her. The award will be presented by the Undersecretary of Culture Lucia Borgonzoni and Chiara Sbarigia, president of Cinecittà. During the evening, organized in collaboration with the family, there will be speeches by friends of the artist from all over the world.
The event is part of a series of initiatives that Cinecittà is organizing to celebrate Sophia Loren’s ninetieth birthday, including the Lincoln Center in New York and the already announced tribute at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles scheduled for November.
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