Sophia Loren has been hospitalized and is recovering from surgery after a fall, her representative confirmed.
Loren, the 89-year-old Italian film legend, had a successful operation for a leg fracture after she fell in her Swiss home Sunday, her agent said.
The agent, Andrea Giusti, said in an email Monday that Loren fell in a bathroom and that surgery was performed later in the day. The operation “went very well and now we only need to wait,” Giusti said.
Loren broke both her hip and a thigh bone, the agent said.
When Loren will be discharged from the hospital wasn't immediately clear.
Loren, who celebrated her 89th birthday last week, has lived in a Swiss villa near Lake Geneva for decades. She appeared this month, looking radiant, with Italian designer Giorgio Armani in Venice, Italy, at a fashion show held on the sidelines of the city’s annual film festival.
Loren was scheduled to appear at a restaurant that bears her name in Bari, a city in southern Italy, but her fall canceled the event. Her agent said Loren gave the restaurant the right to use her name and image.
Loren became the first performer to win an Academy Award for a foreign language role in 1961 and took home an Honorary Award, or lifetime achievement award, from the Motion Picture Academy in 1990.