Claudia Cardinale
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
192
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
Bambi
Midi Première
Champs-Elysées
The Merv Griffin Show
Sacrée Soirée
The Oscars
Vivement dimanche
Spécial cinéma
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Blood Brothers
Fitzcarraldo
Blindfold
Jesus of Nazareth
Cinépanorama
8½
Bankers Also Have Souls
The Dolphins
Big Deal on Madonna Street
The Conspirators
Once Upon a Time in the West
Numéro un
Numéro un
Time of Indifference
Fellinopolis
Auguste
Li chiamarono... briganti!
Midi trente
Son of the Pink Panther
Woman of Wonders
Cartouche
Stars 90
The Battle of Austerlitz
The Gun
Samedi soir
Last Stop
Sandra
Careless
Il bell'Antonio
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
Blonde in Black Leather
The Professionals
Stupor Mundi
Mother
Nonnas on the Run
Alberto il grande
588 rue Paradis
A View of Love
Gebo and the Shadow
The Pink Panther
Reflets de Cannes
Next Summer
The Hell with Heroes
Little Girl in Blue Velvet
Nobili bugie
Hollywood Invasion
Belmondo, itinéraire...
Belmondo by Belmondo
Effie Gray
Hiver 54, l'abbé Pierre
Téléthon
The Leopard
The Ruffian
Rogue City
Ulisse - Il piacere della scoperta
A Fine Pair
Cherche fiancé tous frais payés
Escape to Athena
Becoming Italian with Signora Enrica
My Best Fiend
Dios de monoambiente
The French Revolution
Burden of Dreams
Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti
All Roads Lead to Rome
The French Revolution
The Salamander
Piccolina bella
The Red Tent
A Summer in La Goulette
The Legend of Frenchie King
Rocco and His Brothers
A Girl in Australia
Claretta
Lost Command
Mia, Liebe meines Lebens
The Magnificent Cuckold
Night of 100 Stars II
Naso di cane
The Pariah
The Audience
Popsy Pop
Don't Make Waves
Goha
Nostromo
Les Anneaux d'Or
Fiasco in Milan
The Blind and the Cardinal
The Skin
Princess Daisy
Conversation Piece
Marcello Mastroianni, latin lover
Cinéma Jacques Perrin
Desert of Fire
A Man in Love
Circus World
Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
The Day of the Owl
Alex et Marie
Girl with a Suitcase
Father
The Artist and the Model
The Silent Mountain
I Am the Law
The Queens
We Are Cinema
Goodbye & Amen
Il bello delle donne... alcuni anni dopo
Midnight Pleasures
A Rose for Everyone
Diary of a Telephone Operator
Heart of the Festival
La Traversée du désir
The Facts of Murder
Riches, belles, etc.
Famous T & A
Bebo's Girl
The Last Sequence
Joy de V.
And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...
3 Strangers in Rome
A Common Sense of Modesty
The Lovemakers
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
The Magic of Fellini
Libera, My Love
The Island of Forgiveness
Drums of Fire
Algeria in Flames
The Demon Stirs
Flash – Der Fotoreporter
Bulle
The Lions Are Loose
Venetian Honeymoon
The String
Upstairs and Downstairs
History
Marcello, una vita dolce
Corleone
Sergio Leone, une Amérique de légende
Act of Sorrow
One Russian Summer
Rumore
Something to Do with Death
Il falso bugiardo
South Wind
Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion
Desert of Fire
La Loi de Julien, Le bon fils
The Adventures of Gerard
Una gita a Roma
Monicelli: La versione di Mario
A Dying Breed: The Making of 'The Leopard'
Claudia Cardinale, la créature du secret
An Opera of Violence
Luchino Visconti
Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things
The Life of Mirrors
Man & Wife, Cop & Crook
Henry IV
Por un puñado de sueños
Fire's Share
The Magistrate
The Years of Lost Images
Nana Mouskouri, Momente ihres Lebens
The Wages of Sin
10-07: L'affaire Zeus
The Man with the Cigar in His Mouth
Hollywood sul Tevere
Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad
Visconti: La verdad del melodrama
Elles ne pensent qu'à ça...
Gina, Sophia, Claudia, trois symboles de la féminité à l'italienne
La Folle Histoire de Jean-Paul Belmondo
Second to Nun
Rudy Valentino
An Italian Indian: The Pink Panther Princess With Claudia Cardinale
Si salvi chi vuole
Twice Upon a Time in the West
Claudia la mystérieuse
Il giorno della Shoah
Il gattopardo: Viaggio della memoria
