Claudia Cardinale
Claude Joséphine Rose "Claudia" Cardinale (15 April 1938 – 23 September 2025) was an Italian actress. She has starred in European films in the 1960s and 1970s, acting in Italian, French, and English.
Born and raised in La Goulette, a neighbourhood of 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 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 the 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 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 (1965), Lost Command (1966), The Professionals (1966), Don't Make Waves (1967) with Tony Curtis, The Hell with Heroes (1968), and the Sergio Leone Western Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), a joint US-Italian production, in which she was praised for her role as a former prostitute opposite Jason Robards, Charles Bronson, and Henry Fonda.
Jaded with the Hollywood film industry 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 Il giorno della civetta (1968) and as a prostitute alongside Alberto Sordi in A Girl in Australia (1971). In 1974, Cardinale met director Pasquale Squitieri, who would become her partner, and she frequently featured in his films, including I guappi (1974), Corleone (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.
Outspoken on women's rights causes over the years, Cardinale has been a UNESCO goodwill ambassador for the Defense of Women's Rights since March 2000. In February 2011, the Los Angeles Times Magazine named Cardinale among the 50 most beautiful women in film history.
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Known for
Bambi
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Midi Première
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Numéro un
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Numéro un
Self - Host
Midi trente
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Once Upon a Time in the West
Jill
The Oscars
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Circus World
Toni Alfredo
Jesus of Nazareth
The Adulteress
All Roads Lead to Rome
Carmen
South Wind
Grazia Macri
The Conspirators
Giuditta Di Castro
Stars 90
Self
The Salamander
Elena Leporello
8½
Claudia
Ulisse - Il piacere della scoperta
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A Summer in La Goulette
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588 rue Paradis
Araxi (Mayrig) Zakarian
Fitzcarraldo
Molly
Téléthon
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Drums of Fire
Roxelane
A Dying Breed: The Making of 'The Leopard'
Self
The Professionals
Maria
Effie Gray
Viscountess
Rogue City
Catarina Bastiani
Lost Command
Aisha
Blindfold
Vicky Vicenti
Diary of a Telephone Operator
Marta Chiaretti
Upstairs and Downstairs
Maria
The Leopard
Angelica Sedara / Bastiana
The Red Tent
Valeria
The Magic of Fellini
Self (archive footage)
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
Self
The Pink Panther
The Princess Dala
The Audience
Aiche
Sandra
Sandra Dawson
Goodbye & Amen
Aliki
Reflets de Cannes
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Rocco and His Brothers
Ginetta
The Silent Mountain
Nuria Calzolari
The Queens
Armenia ("Fata Armenia")
The Ruffian
La 'baronne'
The String
Sara
The Magnificent Cuckold
Maria Grazia
Famous T & A
(archive footage)
Cartouche
Vénus
Blood Brothers
Lucia Esposito
Big Deal on Madonna Street
Carmelina
A View of Love
La mère de Marc
The Artist and the Model
Léa
Fiasco in Milan
Carmelina Nicosia
Escape to Athena
Eleana
A Man in Love
Julia Steiner
The Pariah
Georgia Saratov
Si salvi chi vuole
Luisa
The Last Sequence
Self
An Opera of Violence
Self - Actress
Venetian Honeymoon
Angelica
The Skin
Principessa Consuelo Caracciolo
Li chiamarono... briganti!
Donna Assunta
Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion
Self (archive footage)
The Legend of Frenchie King
Marie Sarrazin
Becoming Italian with Signora Enrica
Signora Enrica
The Island of Forgiveness
Agostina
Woman of Wonders
Maura
Son of the Pink Panther
Maria Gambrelli
The Battle of Austerlitz
Pauline Bonaparte
The Lovemakers
Bianca
My Best Fiend
Self
Burden of Dreams
Self - Actress
The Wages of Sin
Self - Actress
Nobili bugie
Duchess
Sergio Leone, une Amérique de légende
Self (archive footage)
The Facts of Murder
La servetta, Assuntina
Don't Make Waves
Laura
The Gun
Marta Compagna
Little Girl in Blue Velvet
Francesca Modigliani
Rudy Valentino
Zia Rosa
The French Revolution
Duchesse de Polignac
Auguste
Cameo Appearance (uncredited)
Henry IV
Matilda
Il bell'Antonio
Barbara Puglisi
Princess Daisy
Annabelle de Fourdemont Valensky
Alex et Marie
Narrator (voice)
Careless
Angiolina Zarri
Twice Upon a Time in the West
Claudia
Libera, My Love
Libera Valente
Corleone
Rosa Accordino
The Dolphins
Fedora Santini
The Day of the Owl
Rosa Nicolosi
The Life of Mirrors
Fire's Share
Catherine Hansen
I Am the Law
Anna
Conversation Piece
Professor's Wife (uncredited)
Girl with a Suitcase
Aida Zepponi
Blonde in Black Leather
Claudia
And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...
Madame Falconetti
Il bello delle donne... alcuni anni dopo
Laura Banti
A Fine Pair
Esmeralda Marini
Desert of Fire
Leila
Belmondo by Belmondo
Self (archive footage)
Joy de V.
Signora Morosini
The Lions Are Loose
Albertine Ferran
The Hell with Heroes
Elena
Les Anneaux d'Or
A young woman
Midnight Pleasures
Gabriella Sansoni
Gebo and the Shadow
Doroteia
Bebo's Girl
Mara
One Russian Summer
Anya
La Traversée du désir
Self
Nostromo
Teresa Viola
Stupor Mundi
Costanza d'Altavilla / d'Aragona
Bankers Also Have Souls
Antonella Dufour
The French Revolution
Yolande-Gabrielle de Polastron, duchesse de Polignac (segment "Années Lumière, Les")
Bulle
Marthe
The Adventures of Gerard
Teresa, Countess of Morales
We Are Cinema
Self (archive footage)
La Storia
Ida Mancuso
Next Summer
Jeanne
Marcello, una vita dolce
Self
Dios de monoambiente
Self (archive footage)
Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
Self
A Girl in Australia
Carmela
3 Strangers in Rome
Marisa
Night of 100 Stars II
Self
A Common Sense of Modesty
Armida Ballarin
Mother
Araxi (Mayrig) Zakarian
Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad
Self
The Magistrate
Maria
Flash – Der Fotoreporter
Gilda Ricci / Monica Ricci
Last Stop
Rosa
10-07: L'affaire Zeus
Agent
Nonnas on the Run
Angela
Something to Do with Death
Self - Actress
Una gita a Roma
Marguerite
The Blind and the Cardinal
'La Cardinale'
Man & Wife, Cop & Crook
Cécile Deschamps
Time of Indifference
Carla
Il falso bugiardo
Self (archive footage)
Fellinopolis
Self - Actress (archive footage)
Monicelli: La versione di Mario
Self (archive footage)
Belmondo, itinéraire...
Self
Hollywood Invasion
Self (archive footage)
Mia, Liebe meines Lebens
Mary O'Sullivan
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
Claudia (archive footage) (uncredited)
Claudia Cardinale, la créature du secret
Self (archive footage)
Hiver 54, l'abbé Pierre
Hélène Larmier
La Loi de Julien, Le bon fils
Irène Delamarche
Alberto il grande
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Marcello Mastroianni, latin lover
Self
La Folle Histoire de Jean-Paul Belmondo
Self
Il gattopardo: Viaggio della memoria
Self
Desert of Fire
Leila
A Rose for Everyone
Rosa
Naso di cane
Laura
Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things
Self
Nana Mouskouri, Momente ihres Lebens
Self (archive footage)
Claretta
Miriam Petacci
Goha
Amina
Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti
Pauline Bonaparte
Popsy Pop
Popsy Pop
The Demon Stirs
Claudia Cardinale
Act of Sorrow
Elena
Visconti: La verdad del melodrama
Self
Luchino Visconti
Self
Cherche fiancé tous frais payés
Elisabeth
The Man with the Cigar in His Mouth
Self
Riches, belles, etc.
Baroness Mitsy
Gina, Sophia, Claudia, trois symboles de la féminité à l'italienne
Self
Father
Elvira
Cinéma Jacques Perrin
Self
Elles ne pensent qu'à ça...
Margaux
Il giorno della Shoah
Ester
The Years of Lost Images
Self
Por un puñado de sueños
Self - Interviewee
Claudia la mystérieuse
Self
Piccolina bella
An Italian Indian: The Pink Panther Princess With Claudia Cardinale
Self
Rumore
Second to Nun
Self - Festival Actress
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
Vivement dimanche
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Champs-Elysées
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The Merv Griffin Show
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Sacrée Soirée
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Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
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Spécial cinéma
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Samedi soir
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Cinépanorama
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