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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Claudia Cardinale, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Claudia
8½
The Princess Dala
The Pink Panther
Angelica Sedara / Bastiana
Il gattopardo
Laura
Don't Make Waves
Duchesse de Polignac
La Révolution française
Lucia Esposito
I Guappi
(archive footage)
Famous T & A
Maria
The Professionals
Self (archive footage)
Claudia Cardinale, la créature du secret
Self
Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
Valeria
Красная палатка
Ginetta
Rocco e i suoi fratelli
Carmelina
I soliti ignoti
Self
Mein liebster Feind
La servetta, Assuntina
Un maledetto imbroglio
Molly
Fitzcarraldo
Self (archive footage)
The Magic of Fellini
Vénus
Cartouche
Self
Luchino Visconti
Eleana
Escape to Athena
Self - Actress
Burden of Dreams
Self
L'ultima sequenza
Toni Alfredo
Circus World
Carmela
Bello, onesto, emigrato Australia sposerebbe compaesana illibata
Marie Sarrazin
Les pétroleuses
Maria Gambrelli
Son of the Pink Panther
Aida Zepponi
La ragazza con la valigia
Self
Gina, Sophia, Claudia, trois symboles de la féminité à l'italienne
Self
Claudia la mystérieuse
Antonella Dufour
Le Cadeau
Pauline Bonaparte
Austerlitz
Sara
Le fil
Ester
Il giorno della Shoah
Aiche
L'udienza
Elisabeth
Cherche fiancé tous frais payés
Claudia
Qui comincia l'avventura
La 'baronne'
Le Ruffian
Julia Steiner
Un homme amoureux
Self
Marcello Mastroianni, latin lover
La mère de Marc
Un balcon sur la mer
Armida Ballarin
Il comune senso del pudore
Professor's Wife (uncredited)
Gruppo di Famiglia in un Interno
Sandra Dawson
Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa...
Georgia Saratov
La Scoumoune
Cécile Deschamps
Hold-up à l'italienne
Barbara Puglisi
Il bell'Antonio
Albertine Ferran
Les lions sont lâchés
Donna Assunta
Li chiamarono... briganti!
Rosa Nicolosi
Il giorno della civetta
Self (archive footage)
Monicelli: La versione di Mario
Claudia Cardinale
Le Démon de midi
Self
Saeif Halq Al Wadi
Gabriella Sansoni
A mezzanotte va la ronda del piacere
Carla
Gli indifferenti
Doroteia
Gebo et l'ombre
Anna
Il prefetto di ferro
Self - Actress
An Opera of Violence
Araxi (Mayrig) Zakarian
Mayrig
Araxi (Mayrig) Zakarian
588 rue Paradis
Signora Enrica
Sinyora Enrica ile İtalyan Olmak
Viscountess
Effie Gray
Léa
El artista y la modelo
Libera Valente
Libera, amore mio...
Self - Festival Actress
Second to Nun
Elena Leporello
The Salamander
Self
Belmondo, itinéraire...
Bianca
La viaccia
Signora Morosini
Joy de V.
Maria Grazia
Il magnifico cornuto
Costanza d'Altavilla / d'Aragona
Stupor Mundi
Rosa Accordino
Corleone
Maria
Upstairs and Downstairs
Self
Cinéma Jacques Perrin
Vicky Vicenti
Blindfold
Marta Chiaretti
Certo, certissimo, anzi... probabile
Armenia ("Fata Armenia")
Le fate
Hélène Larmier
Hiver 54, l'abbé Pierre
Maura
La donna delle meraviglie
Angiolina Zarri
Senilità
Teresa, Countess of Morales
The Adventures of Gerard
Nuria Calzolari
The Silent Mountain
Elena
Atto di Dolore
Self
La Folle Histoire de Jean-Paul Belmondo
Giuditta Di Castro
Nell'anno del Signore
Fedora Santini
I delfini
Francesca Modigliani
La Petite Fille en velours bleu
Self - Actress (archive footage)
Fellinopolis
Aliki
Goodbye & Amen
Popsy Pop
Popsy Pop
Maria
Il magistrato
Marta Compagna
L'arma
Mara
La ragazza di Bube
Ida Mancuso
La storia
Baroness Mitsy
Riches, belles, etc.
Leila
Deserto di fuoco
Self
An Italian Indian: The Pink Panther Princess With Claudia Cardinale
Matilda
Enrico IV
Carmen
All Roads Lead to Rome
Roxelane
La batalla de los tres reyes
Marisa
3 straniere a Roma
Angelica
La prima notte
Jeanne
L'Été prochain
Piccolina bella
Anya
Fury
Elena
The Hell with Heroes
Principessa Consuelo Caracciolo
La pelle
Luisa
Si salvi chi vuole
Self (archive footage)
Luchino Visconti, entre vérité et passion
Self
Gli anni delle immagini perdute
Self (archive footage)
Noi siamo cinema
Catherine Hansen
La Part du feu
Self
Night of 100 Stars II
Rosa
Una rosa per tutti
Amina
Goha
Aisha
Lost Command
Grazia Macri
Vento del Sud
Self
Visconti: La verdad del melodrama
Duchess
Nobili bugie
Miriam Petacci
Claretta
Self
La Traversée du désir
Margaux
Elles ne pensent qu'à ça...
Narrator (voice)
Alex et Marie
Carmelina Nicosia
Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti
Marguerite
Una gita a Roma
Zia Rosa
Rudy Valentino
Rosa
Ultima Fermata
Self - Actress
The Wages of Sin
Self (archive footage)
Belmondo par Belmondo
Self (archive footage)
Sergio Leone, une Amérique de légende
Self
Sergio Leone - Il mio modo di vedere le cose
Self
Alberto il grande
Cameo Appearance (uncredited)
Auguste
Self
Il gattopardo: Viaggio della memoria
Self
A Dying Breed: The Making of 'The Leopard'
Angela
Niente di serio
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Invasion
Claudia
Имало едно време един уестърн
Rumore
Esmeralda Marini
Ruba al prossimo tuo
Self (archive footage)
Il falso bugiardo
Pauline Bonaparte
Kolossal - I magnifici Macisti
A young woman
Les Anneaux d'Or
Self
L'uomo dal sigaro in bocca
Laura
Naso di cane
Self - Interviewee
Por un puñado de sueños
Jill
C'era una volta il West
Claudia (archive footage) (uncredited)
Fellini: Je suis un grand menteur
Madame Falconetti
And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...
Catarina Bastiani
Bronx
Irène Delamarche
La Loi de Julien, Le bon fils
Self
Marcello, una vita dolce
Self - Actress
Something to Do with Death
'La Cardinale'
L'aveugle et la Cardinale
Elvira
Father
Duchesse de Polignac
La Révolution française : Les Années Lumière
Self (archive footage)
Dios de monoambiente
Self
Pietro Germi - Il bravo, il bello, il cattivo
Agostina
جزيرة الغفران
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
158
Gender
Female
Birthday
1938-04-15
Place of Birth
Tunis, Tunisia
Also Known As
클라우디아 카르디날레