Claudia Cardinale
Acting
Claude Joséphine Rose "Claudia" Cardinale (15 April 1938 – 23 September 2025) was 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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Filmography of
Claudia Cardinale
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Agostina
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Self (archive footage)
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Self - Actress (archive footage)
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Catarina Bastiani
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Self (archive footage)
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Self (archive footage)
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Self (archive footage)
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Zia Rosa
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Self (archive footage)
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Irène Delamarche
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Marguerite
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Duchess
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Angela
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Self (archive footage)
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'La Cardinale'
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Self (archive footage)
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Carmen
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Claudia
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Rosa
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Nuria Calzolari
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Viscountess
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Self
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Signora Morosini
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Doroteia
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Self (archive footage)
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Self (archive footage)
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Signora Enrica
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Elvira
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La mère de Marc
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Ester
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Sara
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Self (archive footage)
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Cécile Deschamps
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Elisabeth
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Claudia Cardinale
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Self - Interviewee
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Self - Actress
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Self - Actress
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Self - Actress
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Self
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Claudia (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Self
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Madame Falconetti
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Self (archive footage)
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Donna Assunta
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Self
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Baroness Mitsy
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Costanza d'Altavilla / d'Aragona
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Leila
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Margaux
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Narrator (voice)
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Maria Gambrelli
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Araxi (Mayrig) Zakarian
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Araxi (Mayrig) Zakarian
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Roxelane
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Elena
... 1990
Hélène Larmier
... 1989
Duchesse de Polignac
... 1989
Julia Steiner
... 1987
Laura
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Ida Mancuso
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Maura
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Jeanne
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Miriam Petacci
... 1984
Matilda
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La 'baronne'
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Self - Actress
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Antonella Dufour
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Molly
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Principessa Consuelo Caracciolo
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Elena Leporello
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Luisa
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Eleana
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Rosa Accordino
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Marta Compagna
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Francesca Modigliani
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Catherine Hansen
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Aliki
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Anna
... 1977
Pauline Bonaparte
... 1977
Armida Ballarin
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Claudia
... 1975
Libera Valente
... 1975
Gabriella Sansoni
... 1975
Professor's Wife (uncredited)
... 1974
Lucia Esposito
... 1974
Anya
... 1973
Georgia Saratov
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Aiche
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Carmela
... 1971
Marie Sarrazin
... 1971
Popsy Pop
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Teresa, Countess of Morales
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Valeria
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Marta Chiaretti
... 1969
Giuditta Di Castro
... 1969
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Esmeralda Marini
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Elena
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Rosa Nicolosi
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Laura
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Rosa
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Maria
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Vicky Vicenti
... 1966
Aisha
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Armenia ("Fata Armenia")
... 1966
Sandra Dawson
... 1965
Maria Grazia
... 1964
Carla
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Toni Alfredo
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Mara
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The Princess Dala
... 1963
Angelica Sedara / Bastiana
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Claudia
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Angiolina Zarri
... 1962
Vénus
... 1962
Cameo Appearance (uncredited)
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Albertine Ferran
... 1961
Bianca
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Aida Zepponi
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Ginetta
... 1960
Fedora Santini
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Pauline Bonaparte
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Barbara Puglisi
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Carmelina Nicosia
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Maria
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La servetta, Assuntina
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Maria
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Amina
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Angelica
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Grazia Macri
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Marisa
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Carmelina
... 1958
A young woman
... 1956
Self - Festival Actress