Claudia Cardinale
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
189
Gender
Female
Birthday
1938-04-15
Day of death
2025-09-23 (87 years old)
Place of Birth
Tunis, Tunisia
Claudia Cardinale
Biography
Claude Joséphine Rose "Claudia" Cardinale (15 April 1938 – 23 September 2025) was an Italian actress. Regarded as one of the leading figures of Italian cinema, alongside Sophia Loren and Gina Lollobrigida, she achieved international recognition during a career spanning more than six decades. Celebrated in the 1960s as "the most beautiful woman in the world" and widely considered a sex symbol of the era, Cardinale appeared in more than 175 films, primarily in Italy and France, across genres including comedy, drama, spaghetti westerns, and historical epics. She collaborated with acclaimed directors such as Federico Fellini, Sergio Leone, and Werner Herzog, and several of her films are regarded as significant works in the history of cinema. At the time of her death, she was one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of European cinema. Born and raised in La Goulette, a municipality in Tunisia near Tunis, Cardinale won the "Most Beautiful Italian Girl in Tunisia" competition in 1957, the prize being a trip to Italy, which quickly led to film contracts, due above all to the involvement of producer Franco Cristaldi, who acted as her mentor for a number of years and later married her. After making her debut in a minor role with Egyptian star Omar Sharif in Goha (1958), Cardinale became one of the best-known actresses in Italy, with roles in films such as Rocco and His Brothers (1960), Girl with a Suitcase (1961), Cartouche (1962), The Leopard (1963) and Federico Fellini's 8½ (1963). From 1963, Cardinale appeared in The Pink Panther opposite David Niven. She went on to appear in the Hollywood films Blindfold (1966), Lost Command (1966), The Professionals (1966), Don't Make Waves (1967) with Tony Curtis, The Hell with Heroes (1968), The Red Tent (1969), A Fine Pair (1968), The Salamander (1981), and the Sergio Leone Western Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), a joint U.S.–Italian production, in which she was praised for her role as a former prostitute opposite Jason Robards, Charles Bronson and Henry Fonda. Jaded with Hollywood and not wanting to become a cliché, Cardinale returned to Italian and French cinema and garnered the David di Donatello for Best Actress award for her roles in The Day of the Owl (1968) and as a prostitute alongside Alberto Sordi in A Girl in Australia (1971).[1] In 1974, Cardinale met director Pasquale Squitieri, who would become her partner. She frequently featured in his films, including Blood Brothers (1974), Father of the Godfathers (1978) and Claretta (1984), the last of which won her the Nastro d'Argento Award for Best Actress. In 1982, she starred in Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo as the love interest of Klaus Kinski, who raises the funds to buy a steamship in Peru. In 2010, Cardinale received the Best Actress Award at the 47th Antalya "Golden Orange" International Film Festival for her performance as an elderly Italian woman who takes in a young Turkish exchange student in Signora Enrica. Over the years, Cardinale was outspoken about women's rights and became a UNESCO goodwill ambassador for the Defence of Women's Rights beginning in March 2000. In February 2011, the Los Angeles Times Magazine named Cardinale among the 50 most beautiful women in film history. ... Description above from the Wikipedia article Claudia Cardinale, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Midi Première
The Merv Griffin Show
Champs-Elysées
Vivement dimanche
Sacrée Soirée
Midi trente
Bambi
Spécial cinéma
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Numéro un
Numéro un
Samedi soir
The Oscars
Once Upon a Time in the West
Cinépanorama
Stars 90
Jesus of Nazareth
Ulisse - Il piacere della scoperta
Téléthon
The Conspirators
The Salamander
Circus World
A Dying Breed: The Making of 'The Leopard'
8½
588 rue Paradis
A Summer in La Goulette
Diary of a Telephone Operator
Sandra
The Leopard
Fitzcarraldo
The Pink Panther
Drums of Fire
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
Upstairs and Downstairs
Blindfold
Reflets de Cannes
Lost Command
The Audience
Big Deal on Madonna Street
The Magic of Fellini
The Red Tent
The Queens
Effie Gray
Rogue City
Escape to Athena
The Last Sequence
The Silent Mountain
The Facts of Murder
Blood Brothers
Rocco and His Brothers
The String
The Professionals
The Island of Forgiveness
Si salvi chi vuole
The Wages of Sin
Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion
An Opera of Violence
Fiasco in Milan
The Skin
Cartouche
The Artist and the Model
The Lovemakers
Sergio Leone, une Amérique de légende
Venetian Honeymoon
The Ruffian
I Am the Law
Goodbye & Amen
The Magnificent Cuckold
Burden of Dreams
A View of Love
Auguste
Woman of Wonders
A Man in Love
The Dolphins
The Battle of Austerlitz
Little Girl in Blue Velvet
Nobili bugie
Il bell'Antonio
Corleone
Li chiamarono... briganti!
Son of the Pink Panther
Princess Daisy
The Pariah
Becoming Italian with Signora Enrica
Bulle
The Gun
My Best Fiend
Rudy Valentino
Henry IV
Dios de monoambiente
The Legend of Frenchie King
Alex et Marie
All Roads Lead to Rome
Gebo and the Shadow
Twice Upon a Time in the West
Famous T & A
The Lions Are Loose
The Life of Mirrors
Don't Make Waves
Il bello delle donne... alcuni anni dopo
The Hell with Heroes
The Day of the Owl
Joy de V.
We Are Cinema
La Storia
La Traversée du désir
The French Revolution
Conversation Piece
Blonde in Black Leather
One Russian Summer
Careless
Bebo's Girl
Les Anneaux d'Or
Bankers Also Have Souls
A Fine Pair
Midnight Pleasures
The French Revolution
Nostromo
Time of Indifference
Girl with a Suitcase
Libera, My Love
Next Summer
Fire's Share
Belmondo by Belmondo
Desert of Fire
Stupor Mundi
The Magistrate
The Blind and the Cardinal
Marcello, una vita dolce
And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...
Something to Do with Death
The Adventures of Gerard
Desert of Fire
A Common Sense of Modesty
Una gita a Roma
Claudia Cardinale, la créature du secret
Belmondo, itinéraire...
Flash – Der Fotoreporter
Nonnas on the Run
Mother
Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
10-07: L'affaire Zeus
Last Stop
Night of 100 Stars II
Alberto il grande
Fellinopolis
Hiver 54, l'abbé Pierre
Nana Mouskouri, Momente ihres Lebens
Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things
3 Strangers in Rome
The Demon Stirs
Act of Sorrow
Il gattopardo: Viaggio della memoria
Mia, Liebe meines Lebens
Visconti: La verdad del melodrama
Monicelli: La versione di Mario
Il falso bugiardo
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
Man & Wife, Cop & Crook
A Girl in Australia
Goha
Naso di cane
A Rose for Everyone
Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad
Claretta
La Loi de Julien, Le bon fils
Cherche fiancé tous frais payés
Piccolina bella
La Folle Histoire de Jean-Paul Belmondo
Popsy Pop
Marcello Mastroianni, latin lover
Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti
The Man with the Cigar in His Mouth
Rumore
Riches, belles, etc.
Father
Second to Nun
Luchino Visconti
Hollywood Invasion
Gina, Sophia, Claudia, trois symboles de la féminité à l'italienne
South Wind
Por un puñado de sueños
Claudia la mystérieuse
Il giorno della Shoah
An Italian Indian: The Pink Panther Princess With Claudia Cardinale
The Years of Lost Images
Elles ne pensent qu'à ça...
Cinéma Jacques Perrin
