Claudia Cardinale

Acting · 2.8 popularity

Age

Movies

163

Born: April 15, 1938 – September 23, 2025
From: La Goulette, Protectorat français de Tunisie
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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.

Works

163 films

Once Upon a Time in the West

19688.3

The Pink Panther

19636.8

8½

19638.1

The Leopard

19637.7

The Professionals

19667.1

Rocco and His Brothers

19608.0

Fitzcarraldo

19827.6

The French Revolution

19897.5

Don't Make Waves

19675.2

Big Deal on Madonna Street

19588.1

Son of the Pink Panther

19934.6

Effie Gray

20146.0

All Roads Lead to Rome

20165.0

Escape to Athena

19795.7

Rogue City

20205.9

Belmondo by Belmondo

20167.8

Austerlitz

19606.6

Joy de V.

2013

Cherche fiancé tous frais payés

20075.6

Lost Command

19666.2

The Skin

19816.3

A Summer in La Goulette

19966.1

My Best Fiend

19997.3

Hollywood Invasion

20116.0

Belmondo, itinéraire...

20117.7

The Salamander

19815.5

Twice Upon a Time in the West

20158.5

Little Girl in Blue Velvet

19785.7

Time of Indifference

19646.2

Popsy Pop

19716.0

Girl with a Suitcase

19617.1

The Legend of Frenchie King

19715.6

Goha

19595.6

Morceaux de Cannes

20212.0

Night of 100 Stars II

19856.8

Careless

19627.4

The Red Tent

19696.1

Circus World

19646.2

Fellini: I'm a Born Liar

20036.2

The Pariah

19726.8

Drums of Fire

19906.1

Conversation Piece

19747.3

Heart of the Festival

20026.5

Il bell'Antonio

19607.1

Mother

19917.9

Bankers Also Have Souls

19824.8

The Artist and the Model

20126.1

Next Summer

19856.4

Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti

19779.0

Claretta

19847.0

Auguste

19614.5

Stupor Mundi

1997

The Gun

19786.4

The Day of the Owl

19687.1

A View of Love

20105.9

Cartouche

19626.3

La Traversée du désir

20095.7

Blindfold

19666.3

Bebo's Girl

19646.3

I Am the Law

19776.6

The Queens

19665.4

Famous T & A

19825.5

The Magnificent Cuckold

19646.6

Hiver 54, l'abbé Pierre

19895.6

Man & Wife, Cop & Crook

20084.8

Gebo and the Shadow

20126.6

A Girl in Australia

19716.6

The Hell with Heroes

19686.0

Fellinopolis

20216.2

588 rue Paradis

19927.3

The Ruffian

19836.3

Midnight Pleasures

19755.7

And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...

20025.8

The Silent Mountain

20145.5

Hollywood sul Tevere

2009

Venetian Honeymoon

19596.5

Cinéma Jacques Perrin

2014

Burden of Dreams

19827.6

Father

2011

Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad

20097.0

Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone

20006.1

Sandra

19657.0

Les Anneaux d'Or

19567.5

The Bardot mystery

201210.0

Dios de monoambiente

2018

The Facts of Murder

19597.2

A Man in Love

19874.5

Last Stop

20143.1

Fiasco in Milan

19596.9

We Are Cinema

20219.5

The Life of Mirrors

2025

The Conspirators

19697.6

Something to Do with Death

20036.3

Diary of a Telephone Operator

19695.8

One Russian Summer

19737.9

The Lovemakers

19616.3

Claudia Cardinale, la créature du secret

20197.0

Monicelli: La versione di Mario

20125.5

A Common Sense of Modesty

19765.8

The String

20096.7

Upstairs and Downstairs

19595.8

Blood Brothers

19746.2

Blonde in Black Leather

19757.4

3 Strangers in Rome

19585.4

Goodbye & Amen

19776.6

The Adventures of Gerard

19705.9

A Rose for Everyone

19676.0

The Audience

19726.5

An Italian Indian: The Pink Panther Princess With Claudia Cardinale

2017

The Magistrate

19596.7

Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things

20069.6

Marcello, una vita dolce

20065.2

Corleone

19787.6

Alberto il grande

20137.5

The Dolphins

19606.6

Marcello Mastroianni, latin lover

2015

Henry IV

19846.5

A Fine Pair

19684.5

Becoming Italian with Signora Enrica

20116.4

Piccolina bella

2026

Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion

20161.0

The Magic of Fellini

20023.5

The Demon Stirs

20053.9

La Loi de Julien, Le bon fils

20176.9

Libera, My Love

19755.8

Rumore

2026

Nonnas on the Run

2017

Li chiamarono... briganti!

19995.5

Riches, belles, etc.

19988.0

An Opera of Violence

20036.8

Sergio Leone, une Amérique de légende

20186.9

Desert of Fire

19978.4

The Man with the Cigar in His Mouth

1997

Nana Mouskouri, Momente ihres Lebens

20206.0

Luchino Visconti

20027.0

The Wages of Sin

20037.5

Il falso bugiardo

2008

Sous les pieds des femmes

19979.0

South Wind

19597.7

Woman of Wonders

19856.8

Elles ne pensent qu'à ça...

19944.8

The Lions Are Loose

19616.0

Fire's Share

19785.6

The Blind and the Cardinal

2016

Rudy Valentino

2018

Il giorno della Shoah

2010

Claudia la mystérieuse

20226.0

Visconti: La verdad del melodrama

20018.0

A Dying Breed: The Making of 'The Leopard'

20049.0

Por un puñado de sueños

2004

The Last Sequence

20036.3

Il gattopardo: Viaggio della memoria

1994

The Years of Lost Images

2012

Act of Sorrow

19905.4

Nobili bugie

20175.3

Una gita a Roma

20178.0

Si salvi chi vuole

19807.0

Algeria in Flames

19588.5

Alex et Marie

1994

Second to Nun

2026

The Island of Forgiveness

2022

La Folle Histoire de Jean-Paul Belmondo

20176.7

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

2019