Claudia Cardinale

Claudia Cardinale

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: Acting

Born: Tunis, Tunisia, 1938-04-15

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1958	Big Deal on Madonna Street	Carmelina	81
2	1959	The Facts of Murder	La servetta, Assuntina	72
3	1959	Upstairs and Downstairs	Maria	56
4	1960	Handsome Antonio	Barbara Puglisi	71
5	1960	The Battle of Austerlitz	Pauline Bonaparte	66
6	1960	Rocco and His Brothers	Ginetta	80
7	1961	Girl with a Suitcase	Aida Zepponi	72
8	1961	The Lovemakers	Bianca	63
9	1961	The Lions Are Loose	Albertine Ferran	58
10	1962	Cartouche	Vénus	64
11	1962	Careless	Angiolina Zarri	75
12	1963	8½	Claudia	81
13	1963	The Leopard	Angelica Sedara / Bastiana	77
14	1963	The Pink Panther	The Princess Dala	68
15	1964	Circus World	Toni Alfredo	61
16	1964	Time of Indifference	Carla	61
17	1964	The Magnificent Cuckold	Maria Grazia	66
18	1965	Sandra	Sandra Dawson	70
19	1966	The Queens	Armenia ("Fata Armenia")	54
20	1966	Blindfold	Vicky Vicenti	63
21	1966	The Professionals	Maria	71
22	1967	Don't Make Waves	Laura	53
23	1968	The Day of the Owl	Rosa Nicolosi	71
24	1969	Diary of a Telephone Operator	Marta Chiaretti	58
25	1969	The Red Tent	Valeria	59
26	1970	The Adventures of Gerard	Teresa, Countess of Morales	64
27	1971	The Legend of Frenchie King	Marie Sarrazin	56
28	1971	A Girl in Australia	Carmela	67
29	1972	The Audience	Aiche	67
30	1972	The Pariah	Georgia Saratov	69
31	1974	Blood Brothers	Lucia Esposito	63
32	1974	Conversation Piece	Professor's Wife (uncredited)	73
33	1975	Midnight Pleasures	Gabriella Sansoni	57
34	1975	Libera, My Love	Libera Valente	57
35	1975	Blonde in Black Leather	Claudia	75
36	1976	A Common Sense of Modesty	Armida Ballarin	58
37	1977	I Am the Law	Anna	68
38	1978	Corleone	Rosa Accordino	73
39	1979	Escape to Athena	Eleana	57
40	1981	The Salamander	Elena Leporello	55
41	1982	Famous T & A	(archive footage)	53
42	1982	Fitzcarraldo	Molly	76
43	1982	Bankers Also Have Souls	Antonella Dufour	47
44	1982	Burden of Dreams	Self - Actress	76
45	1983	The Ruffian	La 'baronne'	62
46	1985	Woman of Wonders	Maura	65
47	1987	A Man in Love	Julia Steiner	43
48	1989	The French Revolution	Duchesse de Polignac	75
49	1989	Hiver 54, l'abbé Pierre	Hélène Larmier	54
50	1991	Mother	Araxi (Mayrig) Zakarian	78
51	1992	588 rue Paradis	Araxi (Mayrig) Zakarian	72
52	1993	Son of the Pink Panther	Maria Gambrelli	46
53	1996	A Summer in La Goulette	Self	62
54	1997	Stupor Mundi	Costanza d'Altavilla / d'Aragona	0
55	1999	My Best Fiend	Self	73
56	1999	Li chiamarono... briganti!	Donna Assunta	51
57	2000	Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone	Self	59
58	2002	The Magic of Fellini	Self (archive footage)	28
59	2002	Luchino Visconti	Self	62
60	2003	The Last Sequence	Self	60
61	2003	An Opera of Violence	Self - Actress	60
62	2005	The Demon Stirs	Claudia Cardinale	30
63	2007	Cherche fiancé tous frais payés	Elisabeth	55
64	2008	Man & Wife, Cop & Crook	Cécile Deschamps	54
65	2009	The String	Sara	68
66	2010	Il giorno della Shoah	Ester	0
67	2010	A View of Love	La mère de Marc	60
68	2011	Sinyora Enrica ile İtalyan Olmak	Signora Enrica	62
69	2011	Belmondo, itinéraire...	Self	77
70	2012	Monicelli: La versione di Mario	Self (archive footage)	55
71	2012	Gebo and the Shadow	Doroteia	67
72	2012	The Artist and the Model	Léa	62
73	2014	Effie Gray	Viscountess	59
74	2015	Marcello Mastroianni, latin lover	Self	0
75	2019	Gina, Sophia, Claudia, trois symboles de la féminité à l'italienne	Self	0
76	2019	Claudia Cardinale, la créature du secret	Self (archive footage)	68
77		Second to Nun	Self - Festival Actress	0
78	1958	3 Strangers in Rome	Marisa	43
79	1959	South Wind	Grazia Macri	76
80	1959	Venetian Honeymoon	Angelica	30
81	1959	Goha	Amina	52
82	1959	The Magistrate	Maria	62
83	1960	The Dolphins	Fedora Santini	65
84	1964	Bebo's Girl	Mara	63
85	1966	Lost Command	Aisha	62
86	1967	A Rose for Everyone	Rosa	45
87	1968	The Hell with Heroes	Elena	52
88	1969	The Conspirators	Giuditta Di Castro	76
89	1971	Popsy Pop	Popsy Pop	40
90	1973	One Russian Summer	Anya	78
91	1977	Goodbye & Amen	Aliki	67
92	1978	Fire's Share	Catherine Hansen	53
93	1978	Little Girl in Blue Velvet	Francesca Modigliani	45
94	1978	The Gun	Marta Compagna	54
95	1980	Si salvi chi vuole	Luisa	0
96	1981	The Skin	Principessa Consuelo Caracciolo	63
97	1984	Henry IV	Matilda	64
98	1984	Claretta	Miriam Petacci	0
99	1985	Next Summer	Jeanne	61
100	1985	Night of 100 Stars II	Self	80
101	1986	History	Ida Mancuso	69
102	1990	Act of Sorrow	Elena	38
103	1990	Drums of Fire	Roxelane	59
104	1997	Desert of Fire	Leila	93
105	1998	Riches, belles, etc.	Baroness Mitsy	0
106	2001	Visconti: La verdad del melodrama	Self	80
107	2009	La Traversée du désir	Self	57
108	2012	The Years of Lost Images	Self	0
109	2014	The Silent Mountain	Nuria Calzolari	55
110	2016	All Roads Lead to Rome	Carmen	49
111	2016	Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion	Self (archive footage)	10
112	2017	La Folle Histoire de Jean-Paul Belmondo	Self	67
113	2017	Nobili bugie	Duchess	53
114	2017	An Italian Indian: The Pink Panther Princess With Claudia Cardinale	Self	0
115	2021	Fellinopolis	Self - Actress (archive footage)	65
116		Piccolina bella		0
117	1956	Les Anneaux d'Or	A young woman	75
118	1959	Fiasco in Milan	Carmelina Nicosia	69
119	1961	Auguste	Cameo Appearance (uncredited)	10
120	1968	A Fine Pair	Esmeralda Marini	32
121	1968	Once Upon a Time in the West	Jill	83
122	1977	Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti	Pauline Bonaparte	0
123	1986	Naso di cane	Laura	0
124	1994	Alex et Marie	Narrator (voice)	0
125	1994	Il gattopardo: Viaggio della memoria	Self	0
126	1994	Elles ne pensent qu'à ça...	Margaux	40
127	1997	The Man with the Cigar in His Mouth	Self	0
128	2002	Heart of the Festival		40
129	2002	And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...	Madame Falconetti	58
130	2003	Fellini: I'm a Born Liar	Claudia (archive footage) (uncredited)	63
131	2003	The Wages of Sin	Self - Actress	74
132	2003	Something to Do with Death	Self - Actress	60
133	2004	Por un puñado de sueños	Self - Interviewee	0
134	2004	A Dying Breed: The Making of 'The Leopard'	Self	0
135	2006	Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things	Self	96
136	2006	Marcello, una vita dolce	Self	52
137	2008	Il falso bugiardo	Self (archive footage)	0
138	2009	Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad	Self	70
139	2011	Father	Elvira	0
140	2011	Hollywood Invasion	Self (archive footage)	0
141	2013	Joy de V.	Signora Morosini	0
142	2013	Alberto il grande	Self	75
143	2014	Last Stop	Rosa	35
144	2014	Cinéma Jacques Perrin	Self	0
145	2015	Twice Upon a Time in the West	Claudia	85
146	2016	Belmondo by Belmondo	Self (archive footage)	78
147	2016	The Blind and the Cardinal	'La Cardinale'	0
148	2017	Nonnas on the Run	Angela	0
149	2017	Una gita a Roma	Marguerite	80
150	2017	La Loi de Julien, Le bon fils	Irène Delamarche	60
151	2018	Dios de monoambiente	Self (archive footage)	0
152	2018	Rudy Valentino	Zia Rosa	0
153	2018	Sergio Leone, une Amérique de légende	Self (archive footage)	75
154		Rumore		0
155	2020	Rogue City	Catarina Bastiani	59
156	2021	We Are Cinema	Self (archive footage)	95
157	2022	Claudia la mystérieuse	Self	0
158	2022	The Island of Forgiveness	Agostina	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	Bambi-Verleihung	Self	90
2	1953	The Oscars	Self	71
3	1954	Reflets de Cannes	Self	20
4	1956	Cinépanorama	Self	80
5	1962	The Merv Griffin Show	Self	58
6	1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self	75
7	1971	Samedi soir	Self	60
8	1972	Midi trente	Self	60
9	1974	Spécial cinéma	Self	0
10	1975	Midi Première	Self	100
11	1975	Les Rendez-vous du dimanche	Self	60
12	1975	Numéro un	Self	60
13	1975	Numéro un	Self - Host	60
14	1977	Jesus of Nazareth	The Adulteress	78
15	1982	Champs-Elysées	Self	63
16	1983	Princess Daisy	Annabelle de Fourdemont Valensky	73
17	1987	Sacrée soirée	Self	65
18	1987	Téléthon	Self	50
19	1989	The French Revolution	Yolande-Gabrielle de Polastron, duchesse de Polignac (segment "Années Lumière, Les")	100
20	1990	Stars 90	Self	62
21	1993	Flash – Der Fotoreporter	Gilda Ricci / Monica Ricci	0
22	1995	10-07: L'affaire Zeus	Agent	0
23	1997	Nostromo	Teresa Viola	60
24	1997	Desert of Fire	Leila	100
25	1998	Vivement dimanche	Self	30
26	2001	Ulisse - Il piacere della scoperta	Self	89
27	2011	The Story of Film: An Odyssey	Self	76
28	2016	Mia, Liebe meines Lebens	Mary O'Sullivan	70
29	2017	Il bello delle donne... alcuni anni dopo	Laura Banti	35
30	2020	Bulle	Marthe	75

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