It appears like Sophia Loren goes to tug by way of after a scary fall she suffered on Sunday. Per Variety, the Academy Award-winning Italian film star, who simply turned 89, fell in her dwelling in Geneva, Switzerland over the weekend, leaving her with “severe fractures” to her hip and femur.
Loren was taken to the hospital for emergency surgical procedure Sunday afternoon, per an Italian information outlet. “Sophia was operated with constructive end result and can now should bear a short interval of convalescence adopted by an entire rehabilitation,” they wrote (by way of Variety). Representatives for Loren additionally confirmed that her two sons, Carlo and Edoardo Ponti, have been by her bedside.
Loren lately missed two public appearances as a result of fall—a celebration for a restaurant named after her (which first introduced the information) and a ceremony in an Italian port metropolis known as Bari, the place she shot her most up-to-date movie (2020’s The Life Ahead, directed by her son Edoardo for Netflix) and was set to obtain an honorary citizenship. Her most up-to-date public look was at September 2’s Armani “One Night Only” style present, which she watched from the primary row together with Jessica Chastain, Sydney Sweeney, Ava DuVernay, Luca Guadagnino, and others.
Born in Naples in 1934, Loren first broke onto the scene twenty years later when she appeared in Vittorio De Sica’s The Gold of Naples as a pizza vendor. After transferring to Los Angeles with husband and producer Carlo Ponti just a few years later, Loren went on to star in movies in each nations, alongside mega-stars like Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, and Cary Grant. She made historical past after taking dwelling the Oscar for Best Actress for her efficiency in 1961’s Two Women, making her the primary performer to ever win for a non-English-language film. In 1991, she additionally acquired an Honorary Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement.
