Oscar-winning Italian film star Sophia Loren, widely celebrated as a national icon and one of the 20th century's enduring cinematic legends, recently underwent surgery following a fall at her residence in Geneva, according to her spokesperson. The operation, conducted on Loren, who is 89 years old, was reported to have proceeded successfully, and she is now in need of rest for her recovery.

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While specific details about the incident were not disclosed, Italian media sources corroborated the incident, indicating that Loren had sustained a hip fracture due to an accidental fall at her Geneva home on Sunday. Sophia Loren's illustrious career includes winning two Academy Awards. The first, in 1961, was for her poignant portrayal of a wartime mother in Vittorio De Sica's neo-realistic masterpiece, "La Ciociara" (Two Women).

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Her second Oscar was a lifetime achievement award conferred upon her in 1991. Throughout her career, Loren shared the screen with renowned actors, such as Marcello Mastroianni, with whom she collaborated on several memorable and successful films. Marcello Mastroianni, her Italian co-star, passed away in 1996.

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Additionally, she worked alongside Hollywood luminaries like Cary Grant, Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, and Paul Newman, cementing her legacy as an iconic figure in the history of 20th-century cinema. Her most recent starring role was in 2020's "La Vita Davanti a Se" (The Life Ahead).

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In it, she plays a former prostitute and Holocaust survivor who looks after children of working prostitutes in the southern Italian city of Bari and helps an orphaned Senegalese migrant boy who had robbed her. It was directed by her son, Edoardo Ponti. The Sophia Loren Restaurant, a chain of establishments bearing her name, posted the initial information about the fall and hospitalisation on its Facebook page.

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It stated that she had been preparing to debut a brand-new one in Bari, Italy's fourth, on Tuesday.

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