Claudia Cardinale

🎂 Data nașterii: 1938-04-15 (La Goulette, Protectorat français de Tunisie)

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.

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Claudia Cardinale

Filme în care a jucat

Opt și jumătate

Pantera roz

Ghepardul

Don't Make Waves

La Révolution française

I Guappi

Famous T & A

Profesioniștii

Claudia Cardinale, la créature du secret

Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone

Красная палатка

Rocco și frații săi

I soliti ignoti

Mein liebster Feind

Un maledetto imbroglio

Fitzcarraldo

The Magic of Fellini

Cartouche

Luchino Visconti

Escape to Athena

Povara viselor

L'ultima sequenza

Circus World

Bello, onesto, emigrato Australia sposerebbe compaesana illibata

Les Pétroleuses

Son of the Pink Panther

La ragazza con la valigia

Gina, Sophia, Claudia, trois symboles de la féminité à l'italienne

Claudia la mystérieuse

Le Cadeau

Austerlitz

Le fil

Il giorno della Shoah

L'udienza

Cherche fiancé tous frais payés

Qui comincia l'avventura

Le Ruffian

Un homme amoureux

Marcello Mastroianni, latin lover

Un balcon sur la mer

Il comune senso del pudore

Gruppo di Famiglia in un Interno

Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa...

La Scoumoune

Hold-up à l'italienne

Il bell'Antonio

Les lions sont lâchés

Li chiamarono... briganti!

Il giorno della civetta

Monicelli: La versione di Mario

Le Démon de midi

Un été à La Goulette

A mezzanotte va la ronda del piacere

Gli indifferenti

Gebo et l'ombre

Il prefetto di ferro

An Opera of Violence

Mayrig

588 rue Paradis

Sinyora Enrica ile İtalyan Olmak

Effie Gray

El artista y la modelo

Libera, amore mio...

Second to Nun

The Salamander

Belmondo, itinéraire...

La viaccia

Joy de V.

Il magnifico cornuto

Stupor Mundi

Corleone

Upstairs and Downstairs

Cinéma Jacques Perrin

Blindfold

Certo, certissimo, anzi... probabile

Le fate

Hiver 54, l'abbé Pierre

La donna delle meraviglie