Claudia Cardinale
Acting
🎂 1938-04-15
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.
Cast credits(188)
Self
1962
Self
1962
Self
1982
Self
1956
Self
1998
Self
1975
Self
1974
Self
1948
Self
1987
Self
1975
Self - Host
1975
Self
1975
Self
1971
Self
1953
The Adulteress
1977
Self
2011
Self
1990
Self
1972
Jill
1968
Agent
1995
Marthe
2020
Mary O'Sullivan
2016
Yolande-Gabrielle de Polastron, duchesse de Polignac (segment "Années Lumière, Les")
1989
Annabelle de Fourdemont Valensky
1983
Self
2001
Self
1987
Claudia
1963
The Princess Dala
1963
Angelica Sedara / Bastiana
1963
Self
1954
Ginetta
1960
Molly
1982
Maria
1966
Eleana
1979
Valeria
1969
Carmelina
1958
Professor's Wife (uncredited)
1974
LĂ©a
2012
Duchesse de Polignac
1989
Aida Zepponi
1961
Catarina Bastiani
2020
Georgia Saratov
1972
Viscountess
2014
Maria Gambrelli
1993
Laura Banti
2017
Gilda Ricci / Monica Ricci
1993
Self
1999
Carmen
2016
2002
Pauline Bonaparte
1960
Leila
1997
Self
1996
VĂ©nus
1962
Self
1985
La mère de Marc
2010
Laura
1967
Marie Sarrazin
1971
Toni Alfredo
1964
Carmelina Nicosia
1959
Jeanne
1985
Teresa Viola
1997
Rosa Nicolosi
1968
Araxi (Mayrig) Zakarian
1991
Anna
1977
Aisha
1966
La 'baronne'
1983
Elena Leporello
1981
Julia Steiner
1987
Principessa Consuelo Caracciolo
1981
Catherine Hansen
1978
Esmeralda Marini
1968
Barbara Puglisi
1960
Armenia ("Fata Armenia")
1966
La servetta, Assuntina
1959
Self
2000
Antonella Dufour
1982
Vicky Vicenti
1966
Lucia Esposito
1974
Bianca
1961
Gabriella Sansoni
1975
Giuditta Di Castro
1969
Nuria Calzolari
2014
Sandra Dawson
1965
Self (archive footage)
2016
Aliki
1977
Carmela
1971
Self - Actress
1982
Mara
1964
Sara
2009
Madame Falconetti
2002
Maria Grazia
1964
Self
2002
Claudia (archive footage) (uncredited)
2003
Libera Valente
1975
Teresa, Countess of Morales
1970
Francesca Modigliani
1978
Araxi (Mayrig) Zakarian
1992
Marta Chiaretti
1969
Self
2009
(archive footage)
1982
Self (archive footage)
2021
Armida Ballarin
1976
Claudia
1975
Roxelane
1990
Maria
1959
Self (archive footage)
2016
Ida Mancuso
1986
CĂ©cile Deschamps
2008
Marta Compagna
1978
Aiche
1972
Doroteia
2012
Carla
1964
Marisa
1958
Amina
1959
Maura
1985
Elena
1990
Irène Delamarche
2017
Elisabeth
2007
Matilda
1984
Leila
1997
Rosa Accordino
1978
Self
2006
Self - Actress (archive footage)
2021
Costanza d'Altavilla / d'Aragona
1997
Maria
1959
Grazia Macri
1959
Angelica
1959
Hélène Larmier
1989
Self (archive footage)
2002
Self
2009
Donna Assunta
1999
Cameo Appearance (uncredited)
1961
Popsy Pop
1971
Self - Actress
2003
Elena
1968
Self
2012
Self (archive footage)
2008
Self - Actress
2003
Duchess
2017
Self
2011
Pauline Bonaparte
1977
Angela
2017
Self
2013
Self
2001
Self
2015
Self
1994
Marguerite
2017
Rosa
1967
Anya
1973
Self - Actress
2003
Claudia Cardinale
2005
Angiolina Zarri
1962
Fedora Santini
1960
Self
2006
Self
2017
Albertine Ferran
1961
Self (archive footage)
2012
Miriam Petacci
1984
Agostina
2022
Self (archive footage)
2011
Laura
1986
Self
2003
Claudia
2015
Self (archive footage)
2019
Self (archive footage)
2018
Self
2019
Self - Interviewee
2004
Zia Rosa
2018
Self
2004
Signora Enrica
2011
Self
1997
Elvira
2011
Baroness Mitsy
1998
A young woman
1956
Self
2017
Narrator (voice)
1994
Luisa
1980
Self
2022
Signora Morosini
2013
Rosa
2014
Margaux
1994
Self (archive footage)
2018
Ester
2010
'La Cardinale'
2016
Self
2014
Self - Festival Actress
