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Aliases: 클라우디아 카르디날레 , Клаудия Кардинале , كلوديا كاردينالي

Gender: Female

Place of birth: Tunis, Tunisia

Homepage: http://official-claudiacardinale.com/index.php

Movie Involvements: 109

TV Involvements: 16


Most Famous Work

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.

Most Famous Work

Bambi Awards
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9

Bambi Awards

(1948) Self
Midi Première
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10

Midi Première

(1975) Self
Jesus of Nazareth
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8

Jesus of Nazareth

(1977) The Adulteress
Numéro un
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6

Numéro un

(1975) Self - Host
Ulisse. Il piacere della scoperta
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9
Stars 90
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6

Stars 90

(1990) self
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
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8
Princess Daisy
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7

Princess Daisy

(1983) Annabelle de Fourdemont Valensky

Acting

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

Crew

Year Role Movie/Tv
1965 Thanks
Year Role Movie/Tv

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