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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Personal info
Gender
Female
Birthday
1938-04-15
Place of birth
Tunis, Tunisia
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Cast
8½
1963
8.10
The Pink Panther
1963
6.83
The Leopard
1963
7.74
Don't Make Waves
1967
5.30
The French Revolution
1989
7.60
Blood Brothers
1974
6.30
Famous T & A
1982
5.30
The Professionals
1966
7.10
Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
2000
5.90
The Red Tent
1969
6.00
Rocco and His Brothers
1960
8.02
Big Deal on Madonna Street
1958
8.10
My Best Fiend
1999
7.32
The Facts of Murder
1959
7.20
Fitzcarraldo
1982
7.63
The Magic of Fellini
2002
2.80
Cartouche
1962
6.39
Luchino Visconti
2002
6.20
Escape to Athena
1979
5.70
Burden of Dreams
1982
7.57
The Last Sequence
2003
6.00
Circus World
1964
6.12
A Girl in Australia
1971
6.70
The Legend of Frenchie King
1971
5.60
Son of the Pink Panther
1993
4.60
Girl with a Suitcase
1961
7.20
Claudia la mystérieuse
2022
0.00
Bankers Also Have Souls
1982
4.90
The Battle of Austerlitz
1960
6.50
The String
2009
6.80
Il giorno della Shoah
2010
0.00
The Audience
1972
6.70
Cherche fiancé tous frais payés
2007
5.50
Blonde in Black Leather
1975
7.50
The Ruffian
1983
6.10
A Man in Love
1987
4.30
A View of Love
2010
5.91
A Common Sense of Modesty
1976
5.80
Conversation Piece
1974
7.30
Sandra
1965
7.00
The Pariah
1972
6.93
Man & Wife, Cop & Crook
2008
5.40
Handsome Antonio
1960
7.10
The Lions Are Loose
1961
5.83
Li chiamarono... briganti!
1999
5.13
The Day of the Owl
1968
7.00
Monicelli: La versione di Mario
2012
5.50
The Demon Stirs
2005
3.00
A Summer in La Goulette
1996
6.20
Midnight Pleasures
1975
5.70
Time of Indifference
1964
6.10
Gebo and the Shadow
2012
6.70
I Am the Law
1977
6.80
An Opera of Violence
2003
6.00
Mother
1991
7.80
588 rue Paradis
1992
7.10
Sinyora Enrica ile İtalyan Olmak
2011
6.20
Effie Gray
2014
5.90
The Artist and the Model
2012
6.20
Libera, My Love
1975
5.70
Second to Nun
0.00
The Salamander
1981
5.70
Belmondo, itinéraire...
2011
7.50
The Lovemakers
1961
6.30
Joy de V.
2013
0.00
The Magnificent Cuckold
1964
6.60
Stupor Mundi
1997
0.00
Corleone
1978
7.30
Upstairs and Downstairs
1959
5.63
Cinéma Jacques Perrin
2014
0.00
Blindfold
1966
6.30
Diary of a Telephone Operator
1969
5.80
The Queens
1966
5.40
Hiver 54, l'abbé Pierre
1989
5.50
Woman of Wonders
1985
6.50
Careless
1962
7.40
The Adventures of Gerard
1970
6.40
The Silent Mountain
2014
5.50
Act of Sorrow
1990
3.80
The Conspirators
1969
7.60
The Dolphins
1960
6.50
Little Girl in Blue Velvet
1978
4.50
Fellinopolis
2021
6.47
Goodbye & Amen
1977
6.70
Popsy Pop
1971
4.00
The Magistrate
1959
6.20
The Gun
1978
6.80
Bebo's Girl
1964
6.30
History
1986
6.90
Riches, belles, etc.
1998
0.00
Desert of Fire
1997
9.30
Henry IV
1984
6.40
All Roads Lead to Rome
2016
5.00
Drums of Fire
1990
6.50
3 Strangers in Rome
1958
4.30
Venetian Honeymoon
1959
3.00
Next Summer
1985
6.08
Piccolina bella
0.00
One Russian Summer
1973
6.80
The Hell with Heroes
1968
5.20
The Skin
1981
6.30
Si salvi chi vuole
1980
0.00
The Years of Lost Images
2012
0.00
We Are Cinema
2021
9.50
Fire's Share
1978
5.25
Night of 100 Stars II
1985
8.00
A Rose for Everyone
1967
4.50
Goha
1959
5.20
Lost Command
1966
6.21
South Wind
1959
8.20
Nobili bugie
2017
5.33
Claretta
1984
0.00
La Traversée du désir
2009
5.70
Elles ne pensent qu'à ça...
1994
4.00
Alex et Marie
1994
0.00
Fiasco in Milan
1959
6.90
Una gita a Roma
2017
8.00
Rudy Valentino
2018
0.00
Last Stop
2014
3.50
The Wages of Sin
2003
7.40
Belmondo by Belmondo
2016
7.80
Alberto il grande
2013
7.50
Auguste
1961
1.00
Nonnas on the Run
2017
0.00
Hollywood Invasion
2011
0.00
Twice Upon a Time in the West
2015
8.50
Rumore
0.00
A Fine Pair
1968
3.20
Il falso bugiardo
2008
0.00
Les Anneaux d'Or
1956
7.50
Naso di cane
1986
0.00
Por un puñado de sueños
2004
0.00
Once Upon a Time in the West
1968
8.28
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
2003
6.30
Rogue City
2020
5.89
La Loi de Julien, Le bon fils
2017
6.00
Marcello, una vita dolce
2006
5.20
Something to Do with Death
2003
6.00
The Blind and the Cardinal
2016
0.00
Father
2011
0.00
Dios de monoambiente
2018
0.00
The Island of Forgiveness
2022
0.00