Claudia Cardinale
Biography
Claude Joséphine Rose "Claudia" Cardinale (born 15 April 1938) is 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
Acting
1963
asClaudia
1963
asThe Princess Dala
1963
asAngelica Sedara / Bastiana
1967
asLaura
1989
asDuchesse de Polignac
1974
asLucia Esposito
1982
as(archive footage)
1966
asMaria
2019
asSelf (archive footage)
2000
asSelf
1969
asValeria
1960
asGinetta
1958
asCarmelina
1999
asSelf
1959
asLa servetta, Assuntina
1982
asMolly
2002
asSelf (archive footage)
1962
asVénus
2002
asSelf
1979
asEleana
1982
asSelf - Actress
2003
asSelf
1964
asToni Alfredo
1971
asCarmela
1971
asMarie Sarrazin
1993
asMaria Gambrelli
1961
asAida Zepponi
2019
asSelf
2022
asSelf
1982
asAntonella Dufour
1960
asPauline Bonaparte
2009
asSara
2010
asEster
1972
asAiche
2007
asElisabeth
1975
asClaudia
1983
asLa 'baronne'
1987
asJulia Steiner
2015
asSelf
2010
asLa mère de Marc
1976
asArmida Ballarin
1974
asProfessor's Wife (uncredited)
1965
asSandra Dawson
1972
asGeorgia Saratov
2008
asCécile Deschamps
1960
asBarbara Puglisi
1961
asAlbertine Ferran
1999
asDonna Assunta
1968
asRosa Nicolosi
2012
asSelf (archive footage)
2005
asClaudia Cardinale
1996
asSelf
1975
asGabriella Sansoni
1964
asCarla
2012
asDoroteia
1977
asAnna
2003
asSelf - Actress
1991
asAraxi (Mayrig) Zakarian
1992
asAraxi (Mayrig) Zakarian
2011
asSignora Enrica
2014
asViscountess
2012
asLéa
1975
asLibera Valente
asSelf - Festival Actress
1981
asElena Leporello
2011
asSelf
1961
asBianca
2013
asSignora Morosini
1964
asMaria Grazia
1997
asCostanza d'Altavilla / d'Aragona
1978
asRosa Accordino
1959
asMaria
2014
asSelf
1966
asVicky Vicenti
1969
asMarta Chiaretti
1966
asArmenia ("Fata Armenia")
1989
asHélène Larmier
1985
asMaura
1962
asAngiolina Zarri
1970
asTeresa, Countess of Morales
2014
asNuria Calzolari
1990
asElena
2017
asSelf
1969
asGiuditta Di Castro
1960
asFedora Santini
1978
asFrancesca Modigliani
2021
asSelf - Actress (archive footage)
1977
asAliki
1971
asPopsy Pop
1959
asMaria
1978
asMarta Compagna
1964
asMara
1986
asIda Mancuso
1998
asBaroness Mitsy
1997
asLeila
2017
asSelf
1984
asMatilda
2016
asCarmen
1990
asRoxelane
1958
asMarisa
1959
asAngelica
1985
asJeanne
as 
1973
asAnya
1968
asElena
1981
asPrincipessa Consuelo Caracciolo
1980
asLuisa
2016
asSelf (archive footage)
2012
asSelf
2021
asSelf (archive footage)
1978
asCatherine Hansen
1985
asSelf
1967
asRosa
1959
asAmina
1966
asAisha
1959
asGrazia Macri
2001
asSelf
2017
asDuchess
1984
asMiriam Petacci
2009
asSelf
1994
asMargaux
1994
asNarrator (voice)
1959
asCarmelina Nicosia
2017
asMarguerite
2018
asZia Rosa
2014
asRosa
2003
asSelf - Actress
2016
asSelf (archive footage)
2018
asSelf (archive footage)
2006
asSelf
2013
asSelf
1961
asCameo Appearance (uncredited)
2004
asSelf
1994
asSelf
2017
asAngela
2011
asSelf (archive footage)
2015
asClaudia
as 
1968
asEsmeralda Marini
2008
asSelf (archive footage)
1977
asPauline Bonaparte
1956
asA young woman
1997
asSelf
1986
asLaura
2004
asSelf - Interviewee
1968
asJill
2003
asClaudia (archive footage) (uncredited)
2002
asMadame Falconetti
2020
asCatarina Bastiani
2017
asIrène Delamarche
2006
asSelf
2003
asSelf - Actress
2016
as'La Cardinale'
2011
asElvira
2018
asSelf (archive footage)
2009
asSelf
2022
asAgostina
asSelf
asSelf
asThe Adulteress
asSelf
asSelf
asLeila
asAnnabelle de Fourdemont Valensky
asTeresa Viola
asGilda Ricci / Monica Ricci
asSelf
asSelf
asMary O'Sullivan
asSelf
asSelf
asSelf
asSelf - Host
asSelf
asSelf
asSelf
asAgent
asSelf (archive footage)
asMarthe
asSelf
asSelf
asSelf
asSelf
asSelf
asSelf
asLaura Banti
asSelf
Production
Crew
1965
asDirecting
