Claudia Cardinale
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1938-04-15
Place of Birth
Tunis, Tunisia
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.
Also Known For
8½
Feb 14, 1963
The Pink Panther
Dec 18, 1963
The Leopard
Mar 27, 1963
Don't Make Waves
Jun 20, 1967
The French Revolution
May 10, 1989
Blood Brothers
Feb 23, 1974
Famous T & A
Jan 01, 1982
The Professionals
Nov 01, 1966
Claudia Cardinale, la créature du secret
Dec 31, 2019
Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
Jan 01, 2000
The Red Tent
Dec 23, 1969
Rocco and His Brothers
Oct 07, 1960
Big Deal on Madonna Street
Jul 26, 1958
My Best Fiend
May 17, 1999
The Facts of Murder
Oct 24, 1959
Fitzcarraldo
Mar 02, 1982
The Magic of Fellini
Jan 27, 2002
Cartouche
Mar 07, 1962
Luchino Visconti
Jun 23, 2002
Escape to Athena
May 21, 1979
Burden of Dreams
Oct 01, 1982
The Last Sequence
Apr 22, 2003
Circus World
Jun 25, 1964
A Girl in Australia
Dec 22, 1971
The Legend of Frenchie King
Dec 16, 1971
Son of the Pink Panther
Aug 27, 1993
Girl with a Suitcase
Feb 09, 1961
Gina, Sophia, Claudia, trois symboles de la féminité à l'italienne
Jan 13, 2019
Claudia la mystérieuse
Mar 07, 2022
Bankers Also Have Souls
Mar 24, 1982
The Battle of Austerlitz
Jun 17, 1960
The String
May 12, 2009
Il giorno della Shoah
Jan 27, 2010
The Audience
Mar 31, 1972
Cherche fiancé tous frais payés
Jun 27, 2007
Blonde in Black Leather
Sep 17, 1975
The Ruffian
Jan 12, 1983
A Man in Love
May 07, 1987
Marcello Mastroianni, latin lover
Jan 01, 2015
A View of Love
Dec 15, 2010
A Common Sense of Modesty
Mar 09, 1976
Conversation Piece
Dec 20, 1974
Sandra
Sep 16, 1965
The Pariah
Dec 12, 1972
Man & Wife, Cop & Crook
May 28, 2008
Handsome Antonio
Mar 04, 1960
The Lions Are Loose
Sep 20, 1961
Li chiamarono... briganti!
May 28, 1999
The Day of the Owl
Feb 17, 1968
Monicelli: La versione di Mario
Jan 30, 2012
The Demon Stirs
Jun 22, 2005
A Summer in La Goulette
Dec 25, 1996
Midnight Pleasures
Feb 19, 1975
Time of Indifference
Sep 24, 1964
Gebo and the Shadow
Sep 10, 2012
I Am the Law
Sep 23, 1977
An Opera of Violence
Nov 18, 2003
Mother
Nov 27, 1991
588 rue Paradis
Jan 14, 1992
Sinyora Enrica ile İtalyan Olmak
Feb 18, 2011
Effie Gray
Mar 08, 2014
The Artist and the Model
Sep 28, 2012
Libera, My Love
Mar 21, 1975
Second to Nun
The Salamander
Apr 25, 1981
Belmondo, itinéraire...
May 18, 2011
The Lovemakers
Jun 13, 1961
Joy de V.
Jan 20, 2013
The Magnificent Cuckold
Oct 19, 1964
Stupor Mundi
Sep 15, 1997
Corleone
Nov 10, 1978
Upstairs and Downstairs
Nov 02, 1959
Cinéma Jacques Perrin
Dec 31, 2014
Blindfold
May 23, 1966
Diary of a Telephone Operator
Nov 06, 1969
The Queens
Apr 21, 1966
Hiver 54, l'abbé Pierre
Oct 31, 1989
Woman of Wonders
Sep 06, 1985
Careless
Mar 08, 1962
The Adventures of Gerard
Jul 03, 1970
The Silent Mountain
Mar 14, 2014
Act of Sorrow
Aug 30, 1990
La Folle Histoire de Jean-Paul Belmondo
Jan 01, 2017
The Conspirators
Oct 24, 1969
The Dolphins
Oct 05, 1960
Little Girl in Blue Velvet
Aug 23, 1978
Fellinopolis
Jun 10, 2021
Goodbye & Amen
Dec 23, 1977
Popsy Pop
Mar 10, 1971
The Magistrate
Oct 07, 1959
The Gun
Sep 07, 1978
Bebo's Girl
Jan 24, 1964
La Storia
Jan 02, 1986
Riches, belles, etc.
Jan 21, 1998
Desert of Fire
Jan 01, 1997
An Italian Indian: The Pink Panther Princess With Claudia Cardinale
Jun 27, 2017
Henry IV
May 24, 1984
All Roads Lead to Rome
Jan 14, 2016
Drums of Fire
Dec 21, 1990
3 Strangers in Rome
Nov 02, 1958
Venetian Honeymoon
Feb 27, 1959
Next Summer
Jan 09, 1985
Piccolina bella
One Russian Summer
Jan 01, 1973
The Hell with Heroes
Aug 28, 1968
The Skin
Aug 27, 1981
Si salvi chi vuole
Apr 04, 1980
Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion
Nov 15, 2016
The Years of Lost Images
Jul 12, 2012
We Are Cinema
Dec 16, 2021
Fire's Share
Jan 04, 1978
Night of 100 Stars II
Mar 10, 1985
A Rose for Everyone
Jan 18, 1967
Goha
May 06, 1959
Lost Command
May 01, 1966
South Wind
Jan 01, 1959
Visconti: La verdad del melodrama
Mar 12, 2001
Nobili bugie
Apr 24, 2017
Claretta
May 31, 1984
La Traversée du désir
Mar 16, 2009
Elles ne pensent qu'à ça...
Mar 16, 1994
Alex et Marie
Jan 01, 1994
Fiasco in Milan
Dec 19, 1959
Una gita a Roma
May 04, 2017
Rudy Valentino
May 24, 2018
Last Stop
Jun 16, 2014
The Wages of Sin
Nov 18, 2003
Belmondo by Belmondo
May 05, 2016
Sergio Leone, une Amérique de légende
Dec 16, 2018
Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things
Mar 08, 2006
Alberto il grande
Feb 16, 2013
Auguste
Oct 24, 1961
A Dying Breed: The Making of 'The Leopard'
Jun 08, 2004
Il gattopardo: Viaggio della memoria
Jan 01, 1994
Nonnas on the Run
Jan 01, 2017
Hollywood Invasion
Sep 01, 2011
Twice Upon a Time in the West
Oct 07, 2015
Rumore
A Fine Pair
Sep 27, 1968
Il falso bugiardo
Jul 03, 2008
Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti
Jan 01, 1977
Les Anneaux d'Or
Jan 01, 1956
The Man with the Cigar in His Mouth
Aug 06, 1997
Naso di cane
Dec 11, 1986
Por un puñado de sueños
Jan 01, 2004
Once Upon a Time in the West
Dec 21, 1968
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
Apr 02, 2003
And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...
May 29, 2002
Rogue City
Oct 30, 2020
La Loi de Julien, Le bon fils
Aug 29, 2017
Marcello, una vita dolce
May 21, 2006
Something to Do with Death
Nov 18, 2003
The Blind and the Cardinal
Nov 01, 2016
Father
Jan 25, 2011
Dios de monoambiente
Jan 01, 2018
Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad
Dec 06, 2009
The Island of Forgiveness
Nov 17, 2022
Nana Mouskouri, Momente ihres Lebens
Apr 03, 2020
The Life of Mirrors
Jul 13, 2025
Ulisse - Il piacere della scoperta
Apr 07, 2001
The Merv Griffin Show
Oct 01, 1962
Jesus of Nazareth
Mar 27, 1977
The Oscars
Mar 19, 1953
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
Sep 03, 2011
Desert of Fire
Oct 19, 1997
Princess Daisy
Nov 06, 1983
Nostromo
Jan 05, 1997
Flash – Der Fotoreporter
Jul 06, 1993
Spécial cinéma
Sep 25, 1974
Bambi
Jan 01, 1948
Mia, Liebe meines Lebens
Jun 25, 2016
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Jan 12, 1975
Midi trente
Mar 06, 1972
Numéro un
Apr 05, 1975
Numéro un
Apr 05, 1975
Champs-Elysées
Jan 16, 1982
Midi Première
Jan 06, 1975
Cinépanorama
Feb 04, 1956
10-07: L'affaire Zeus
Nov 02, 1995
Bulle
Mar 12, 2020
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Oct 01, 1962
Téléthon
Dec 04, 1987
Vivement dimanche
Sep 20, 1998
Stars 90
Sep 03, 1990
Samedi soir
Jan 09, 1971
Reflets de Cannes
Mar 25, 1954
Il bello delle donne... alcuni anni dopo
Jan 13, 2017
Sacrée soirée
Sep 02, 1987
