A feat she achieved in the 1964 film The Fall of the Roman Empire. She was also the first thespian to win the Best Actress Oscar for a foreign language film (Two Women, 1961). Other notable movie classics to her credit include El Cid (1961) and Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (1963).
Sophia Loren overcame a poor childhood to become an international star and one of the few actresses in the 60s to be paid a million dollars for a movie role.