Claudia Cardinale
Acting
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.
The Life of Mirrors
The Island of Forgiveness
Agostina
Claudia la mystérieuse
Self
We Are Cinema
Self (archive footage)
Morceaux de Cannes
Fellinopolis
Self - Actress (archive footage)
Rogue City
Catarina Bastiani
Nana Mouskouri, Momente ihres Lebens
Self (archive footage)
Claudia Cardinale, la créature du secret
Self (archive footage)
Gina, Sophia, Claudia, trois symboles de la féminité à l'italienne
Self
Sergio Leone, une Amérique de légende
Self (archive footage)
Rudy Valentino
Zia Rosa
Dios de monoambiente
Self (archive footage)
La Loi de Julien, Le bon fils
Irène Delamarche
An Italian Indian: The Pink Panther Princess With Claudia Cardinale
Self
Una gita a Roma
Marguerite
Nobili bugie
Duchess
Nonnas on the Run
Angela
La Folle Histoire de Jean-Paul Belmondo
Self
Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion
Self (archive footage)
The Blind and the Cardinal
'La Cardinale'
Belmondo by Belmondo
Self (archive footage)
All Roads Lead to Rome
Carmen
Twice Upon a Time in the West
Claudia
Marcello Mastroianni, latin lover
Self
Cinéma Jacques Perrin
Self
Last Stop
Rosa
The Silent Mountain
Nuria Calzolari
Effie Gray
Viscountess
Alberto il grande
Self
Joy de V.
Signora Morosini
The Artist and the Model
Léa
Gebo and the Shadow
Doroteia
The Years of Lost Images
Self
Monicelli: La versione di Mario
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Invasion
Self (archive footage)
Belmondo, itinéraire...
Self
Becoming Italian with Signora Enrica
Signora Enrica
Father
Elvira
A View of Love
La mère de Marc
Il giorno della Shoah
Ester
Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad
Self
Hollywood sul Tevere
The String
Sara
La Traversée du désir
Self
Il falso bugiardo
Self (archive footage)
Man & Wife, Cop & Crook
Cécile Deschamps
Cherche fiancé tous frais payés
Elisabeth
Marcello, una vita dolce
Self
Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things
Self
The Demon Stirs
Claudia Cardinale
A Dying Breed: The Making of 'The Leopard'
Self
Por un puñado de sueños
Self - Interviewee
Something to Do with Death
Self - Actress
The Wages of Sin
Self - Actress
An Opera of Violence
Self - Actress
The Last Sequence
Self
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
Claudia (archive footage) (uncredited)
Luchino Visconti
Self
And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...
Madame Falconetti
Heart of the Festival
Self (archive footage)
The Magic of Fellini
Self (archive footage)
Visconti: La verdad del melodrama
Self
Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
Self
Li chiamarono... briganti!
Donna Assunta
My Best Fiend
Self
Riches, belles, etc.
Baroness Mitsy
Stupor Mundi
Costanza d'Altavilla / d'Aragona
The Man with the Cigar in His Mouth
Self
Desert of Fire
Leila
A Summer in La Goulette
Self
Elles ne pensent qu'à ça...
Margaux
Il gattopardo: Viaggio della memoria
Self
Alex et Marie
Narrator (voice)
Son of the Pink Panther
Maria Gambrelli
588 rue Paradis
Araxi (Mayrig) Zakarian
Mother
Araxi (Mayrig) Zakarian
Drums of Fire
Roxelane
Act of Sorrow
Elena
Hiver 54, l'abbé Pierre
Hélène Larmier
The French Revolution
Duchesse de Polignac
A Man in Love
Julia Steiner
Woman of Wonders
Maura
Night of 100 Stars II
Self
Next Summer
Jeanne
Claretta
Miriam Petacci
Henry IV
Matilda
The Ruffian
La 'baronne'
Burden of Dreams
Self - Actress
Bankers Also Have Souls
Antonella Dufour
Fitzcarraldo
Molly
Famous T & A
(archive footage)
The Skin
Principessa Consuelo Caracciolo
The Salamander
Elena Leporello
Si salvi chi vuole
Luisa
Escape to Athena
Eleana
Corleone
Rosa Accordino
The Gun
Marta Compagna
Little Girl in Blue Velvet
Francesca Modigliani
Fire's Share
Catherine Hansen
Goodbye & Amen
Aliki
I Am the Law
Anna
Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti
Pauline Bonaparte
A Common Sense of Modesty
Armida Ballarin
Blonde in Black Leather
Claudia
Libera, My Love
Libera Valente
Midnight Pleasures
Gabriella Sansoni
Conversation Piece
Professor's Wife (uncredited)
Blood Brothers
Lucia Esposito
One Russian Summer
Anya
The Pariah
Georgia Saratov
The Audience
Aiche
A Girl in Australia
Carmela
The Legend of Frenchie King
Marie Sarrazin
Popsy Pop
Popsy Pop
The Adventures of Gerard
Teresa, Countess of Morales
The Red Tent
Valeria
Diary of a Telephone Operator
Marta Chiaretti
The Conspirators
Giuditta Di Castro
Once Upon a Time in the West
Jill
A Fine Pair
Esmeralda Marini
The Hell with Heroes
Elena
The Day of the Owl
Rosa Nicolosi
Don't Make Waves
Laura
A Rose for Everyone
Rosa
The Professionals
Maria
Blindfold
Vicky Vicenti
Lost Command
Aisha
The Queens
Armenia ("Fata Armenia")
Sandra
Sandra Dawson
The Magnificent Cuckold
Maria Grazia
Time of Indifference
Carla
Circus World
Toni Alfredo
Bebo's Girl
Mara
The Pink Panther
The Princess Dala
The Leopard
Angelica Sedara / Bastiana
8½
Claudia
Careless
Angiolina Zarri
Cartouche
Vénus
Auguste
Cameo Appearance (uncredited)
The Lions Are Loose
Albertine Ferran
The Lovemakers
Bianca
Girl with a Suitcase
Aida Zepponi
Rocco and His Brothers
Ginetta
The Dolphins
Fedora Santini
The Battle of Austerlitz
Pauline Bonaparte
Il bell'Antonio
Barbara Puglisi
Fiasco in Milan
Carmelina Nicosia
Upstairs and Downstairs
Maria
The Facts of Murder
La servetta, Assuntina
The Magistrate
Maria
Goha
Amina
Venetian Honeymoon
Angelica
South Wind
Grazia Macri
3 Strangers in Rome
Marisa
Big Deal on Madonna Street
Carmelina
Algeria in Flames
Self - Arab woman (uncredited)
Les Anneaux d'Or
A young woman