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Claudia Cardinale
Claude Joséphine Rose "Claudia" Cardinale was an Italian actress. Regarded as one of the leading female figures of Italian cinema, alongside Sophia Loren, Monica Vitti, Silvana Mangano, Anna Magnani, and Gina Lollobrigida, she achieved international recognition during a career spanning more than six decades. Celebrated in the 1960s as "the most beautiful woman in the world" and widely considered a…
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entertainment · Tunisian-Italian actress (1938–2025) · film actor · actor · stage actor · also Claudia Cardinale, Claude Cardinale, Cardinale
Born 15 April 1938 · Died 23 September 2025 · Q107006
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2026· 6 entries
“Zurlini was one of those who really love women: he had an almost feminine sensitivity. He could understand me at a glance. He taught me everything, without ever making demands on me. ... He was really very fond of me.”
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“I used my body as a mask, as a representation of myself”
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“a great director, a man of rare professional capability, great taste and culture. Beyond that, for me personally, a sensitive and sincere friend.”
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Public attention spiked: 4,888 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4× the usual 1,227, with 0 article edits.
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2025· 1 entry
Died 2025-09-23.
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2020· 1 entry
Cardinale headlined the Swiss miniseries Bulle
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2018· 2 entries
Awarded Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (2018).
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Was awarded the rank of Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
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2014· 1 entry
Cardinale portrayed an Italian chaperone viscountess in the British period drama film Effie Gray, for which Variety reviewer Guy Lodge deemed her and fellow cast members "overqualified" and "given far little to do"
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2013· 2 entries
Awarded Honorary Lumière Award (2013).
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Cardinale starred alongside supporting actresses Patricia Black and Chloé Cunha in Nadia Szold's Joy de V
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2012· 1 entry
Cardinale featured opposite Jeanne Moreau and Michael Lonsdale in the final feature film to be directed by Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira, Gebo and the Shadow
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2011· 2 entries
Won Golden Eagle Awards (2011).
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“I never felt scandal and confession were necessary to be an actress. I”
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2010· 2 entries
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
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Cardinale received the Golden Orange 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 Sig
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2007· 1 entry
Cardinale appeared in the Aline Issermann comedy film Cherche fiancé tous frais payés, opposite Alexandra Lamy and Bruno Salomone, in a role which Patrick Besson described as "atrocious"
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2005· 1 entry
Cardinale appeared in a Philippe Adrien stage production of Tennessee Williams's Sweet Bird of Youth, and in the 2006/2007 season also featured in another Williams play, The Glass Menagerie, directed by Andrea Liberovici
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2002· 3 entries
Awarded Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (2002).
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Won Honorary Golden Bear (2002).
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Won Golden Bear (2002).
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2000· 1 entry
Cardinale embarked on her stage career, starring in Maurizio Scaparro's stage production of La Venexiana, adapted by René de Ceccatty, at the Théâtre du Rond-Point in Paris
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1997· 3 entries
Awarded David di Donatello Award for Lifetime Achievement (1997).
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Cardinale featured in the British-Italian television drama miniseries Nostromo, an adaptation of Joseph Conrad's novel directed by Alastair Reid
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Cardinale appeared in the films Sous les pieds des femmes and her husband's Stupor Mundi, in which she portrayed Constance of Aragon
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1995· 1 entry
Awarded Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (1995).
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1994· 1 entry
Cardinale had a role in Charlotte Dubreuil's Elles ne pensent qu'à ça
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1993· 2 entries
Won Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement (1993).
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Cardinale won the Leone d'oro alla carriera award at the Venice Film Festival, at which she was honoured along with Roman Polanski, Robert De Niro, and Steven Spielberg
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1992· 1 entry
Awarded Grolla d'oro for Lifetime Achievement (1992).
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1991· 1 entry
Cardinale featured alongside Richard Berry and Omar Sharif in Henri Verneuil's Mayrig (meaning "mother"), a film about the struggles of an Armenian family that emigrates to Marseille from Turkey after the Armenian genoci
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1990· 1 entry
Cardinale starred opposite Bruno Cremer in Squitieri's Atto di dolore, and appeared in the Morocco-set Soviet-Italian production, The Battle of the Three Kings
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1987· 1 entry
Cardinale starred opposite Peter Coyote, Greta Scacchi, and Jamie Lee Curtis in Diane Kurys's film A Man in Love (Un homme amoureux)
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1986· 1 entry
Cardinale was involved in the making of two films for television
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1985· 2 entries
Awarded Nastro d'Argento for Best Actress for Claretta (1985).
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Cardinale starred opposite Ben Gazzara and Lina Sastri in Alberto Bevilacqua's Woman of Wonders
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1984· 1 entry
Played the love interest of Marcello Mastroianni in a Marco Bellocchio production of Henry IV, based on the Luigi Pirandello play of the same name
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1983· 1 entry
Cardinale had a role in the Waris Hussein miniseries Princess Daisy and featured alongside Lino Ventura and Bernard Giraudeau in the French-Canadian film The Ruffian
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1982· 2 entries
Cardinale appeared in Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo, playing a successful brothel owner who funds Klaus Kinski's purchase of an old steamship in South America
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Co-starred with Klaus Kinski in Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo
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1978· 2 entries
L'arma, Cardinale portrayed Eleana, a Greek "gutsy brothel madame" and the girlfriend of Telly Savalas in George P
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Cardinale appeared in Damiano Damiani's political thriller, Goodbye & Amen – L'uomo della CIA, and again featured alongside Gemma in her husband's gangster picture, Father of the Godfathers, set in 1950s Sicily
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1976· 1 entry
Cardinale appeared in the sex comedy A Common Sense of Modesty, which was directed and written by Alberto Sordi, who also co-starred
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1975· 1 entry
Cardinale played the daughter of a political exile (Adolfo Celi) in Mauro Bolognini's Libera, My Love, a character who becomes "increasingly incensed by the fascist government of Italy and makes a number of bold and very
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1974· 1 entry
Cardinale met director Pasquale Squitieri, who would become her partner
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1972· 1 entry
Cardinale appeared in Marco Ferreri's The Audience, which was screened at the 22nd Berlin International Film Festival
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1971· 1 entry
Formed a duo with Brigitte Bardot in the French Western-comedy The Legend of Frenchie King (French: Les Pétroleuses) and appeared as a prostitute opposite Alberto Sordi in Luigi Zampa's comedy A Girl in Australia
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1970· 1 entry
Cardinale starred opposite Peter McEnery and Eli Wallach in Jerzy Skolimowski's comedy film The Adventures of Gerard, based on The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard by Arthur Conan Doyle
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1969· 1 entry
Cardinale starred opposite Nino Manfredi in Luigi Magni's The Conspirators, based on the actual story of the capital execution of two carbonari in papal Rome
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1968· 1 entry
Cardinale featured opposite Franco Nero in The Day of the Owl, in a David di Donatello for Best Actress-winning performance
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1966· 1 entry
A photograph of Cardinale was featured in the original gatefold artwork to Bob Dylan's album Blonde on Blonde (1966), but it was used without her permission and removed from later pressings
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1965· 2 entries
Awarded Nastro d'Argento for Best Actress for Bebo's Girl (1965).
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Cardinale appeared in Visconti's Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa, known as Sandra (Of a Thousand Delights) in the U
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1964· 3 entries
Awarded Grolla d'oro for Best Leading Actress for Bebo's Girl (1964).
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Cardinale starred alongside Rod Steiger and Shelley Winters in Francesco Maselli's Italian-made Time of Indifference
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Also played the lead role in The Magnificent Cuckold, based on the Belgian play Le Cocu magnifique
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1962· 1 entry
Cardinale was interviewed by the writer Alberto Moravia, who focused exclusively on her sexuality and body image in films, treating her as an object
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1961· 2 entries
Cardinale portrayed a sultry nightclub singer and young mother in Valerio Zurlini's Girl with a Suitcase
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Cardinale starred as a prostitute opposite Jean-Paul Belmondo in Bolognini's The Lovemakers
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1960· 1 entry
Cardinale starred opposite Marcello Mastroianni in Mauro Bolognini's Golden Leopard-winning drama film Il bell'Antonio
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1959· 1 entry
Appeared opposite Renato Salvatori in the mafia film Vento del sud and played the wife of Maurizio Arena in Luigi Zampa's Il magistrato
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1958· 1 entry
Cardinale was given a minor role with Italian actors Vittorio Gassman, Totò, Marcello Mastroianni and Renato Salvatori in Mario Monicelli's internationally successful criminal comedy Big Deal on Madonna Street (I soliti
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1957· 2 entries
During the Italian Cinema Week in Tunis, when she won a competition for the "Most Beautiful Italian Girl in Tunisia", with a trip to the Venice Film Festival as first prize
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The prize being a trip to Italy, which quickly led to film contracts, due above all to the involvement of producer Franco Cristaldi, who acted as her mentor for a number of years and later married her
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1938· 1 entry
Born 1938-04-15.
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1915· 1 entry
At the outbreak of World War I between Italy and Austria-Hungary
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