Claude Joséphine Rose "Claudia" Cardinale (15 April 1938 – 23 September 2025) was an Italian actress. Regarded as one of the leading figures of Italian cinema, alongside Sophia Loren 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 sex symbol of the era, Cardinale appeared in more than 175 films, primarily in Italy and France, across genres including comedy, drama, spaghetti westerns, and historical epics. She collaborated with acclaimed directors such as Federico Fellini, Sergio Leone, and Werner Herzog, and several of her films are regarded as significant works in the history of cinema. At the time of her death, she was one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of European cinema. Born and raised in La Goulette, a municipality in Tunisia near 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 producer 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 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 Federico 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 (1966), Lost Command (1966), The Professionals (1966), Don't Make Waves (1967) with Tony Curtis, The Hell with Heroes (1968), The Red Tent (1969), A Fine Pair (1968), The Salamander (1981), and the Sergio Leone Western Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), a joint U.S.–Italian production, in which she was praised for her role as a former prostitute opposite Jason Robards, Charles Bronson and Henry Fonda. Jaded with Hollywood 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 The Day of the Owl (1968) and as a prostitute alongside Alberto Sordi in A Girl in Australia (1971).[1] In 1974, Cardinale met director Pasquale Squitieri, who would become her partner. She frequently featured in his films, including Blood Brothers (1974), Father of the Godfathers (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. Over the years, Cardinale was outspoken about women's rights and became a UNESCO goodwill ambassador for the Defence of Women's Rights beginning in 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.
160 movies · 33 shows
The Life of Mirrors
2025·0.0
The Island of Forgiveness
2022·0.0
Claudia la mystérieuse
2022·6.0
We Are Cinema
2021·9.5
Morceaux de Cannes
2021·2.0
Fellinopolis
2021·6.2
Rogue City
2020·5.9
Nana Mouskouri, Momente ihres Lebens
2020·6.0
Claudia Cardinale, la créature du secret
2019·7.0
Gina, Sophia, Claudia, trois symboles de la féminité à l'italienne
2019·0.0
Sergio Leone, une Amérique de légende
2018·6.9
Rudy Valentino
2018·0.0
Dios de monoambiente
2018·0.0
La Loi de Julien, Le bon fils
2017·6.9
An Italian Indian: The Pink Panther Princess With Claudia Cardinale
2017·0.0
Una gita a Roma
2017·8.0
Nobili bugie
2017·5.3
La Folle Histoire de Jean-Paul Belmondo
2017·6.7
Nonnas on the Run
2017·0.0
Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion
2016·1.0
The Blind and the Cardinal
2016·0.0
Belmondo by Belmondo
2016·7.8
All Roads Lead to Rome
2016·5.0
Twice Upon a Time in the West
2015·8.5
Marcello Mastroianni, latin lover
2015·0.0
Cinéma Jacques Perrin
2014·0.0
Last Stop
2014·3.1
The Silent Mountain
2014·5.5
Effie Gray
2014·6.0
Alberto il grande
2013·7.5
Joy de V.
2013·0.0
The Artist and the Model
2012·6.1
Gebo and the Shadow
2012·6.6
The Years of Lost Images
2012·0.0
Monicelli: La versione di Mario
2012·5.5
The Bardot mystery
2012·10.0
Hollywood Invasion
2011·6.0
Belmondo, itinéraire...
2011·7.7
Becoming Italian with Signora Enrica
2011·6.4
Father
2011·0.0
A View of Love
2010·5.9
Il giorno della Shoah
2010·0.0
Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad
2009·7.0
Hollywood sul Tevere
2009·0.0
The String
2009·6.7
La Traversée du désir
2009·5.7
Il falso bugiardo
2008·0.0
Man & Wife, Cop & Crook
2008·4.8
Cherche fiancé tous frais payés
2007·5.6
Marcello, una vita dolce
2006·5.2
Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things
2006·9.6
The Demon Stirs
2005·3.9
A Dying Breed: The Making of 'The Leopard'
2004·9.0
Por un puñado de sueños
2004·0.0
An Opera of Violence
2003·6.8
The Wages of Sin
2003·7.5
Something to Do with Death
2003·6.3
The Last Sequence
2003·6.3
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
2003·6.2
Luchino Visconti
2002·7.0
And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...
2002·5.8
Heart of the Festival
2002·6.5
The Magic of Fellini
2002·3.5
Visconti: La verdad del melodrama
2001·8.0
Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
2000·6.1
Li chiamarono... briganti!
1999·5.5
My Best Fiend
1999·7.3
Riches, belles, etc.
1998·8.0
Sous les pieds des femmes
1997·9.0
Stupor Mundi
1997·0.0
The Man with the Cigar in His Mouth
1997·0.0
Desert of Fire
1997·8.4
A Summer in La Goulette
1996·6.1
Elles ne pensent qu'à ça...
1994·4.8
Alex et Marie
1994·0.0
Il gattopardo: Viaggio della memoria
1994·0.0
Son of the Pink Panther
1993·4.6
588 rue Paradis
1992·7.3
Mother
1991·7.9
Drums of Fire
1990·6.1
Act of Sorrow
1990·5.4
Hiver 54, l'abbé Pierre
1989·5.6
The French Revolution
1989·7.5
A Man in Love
1987·4.5
Woman of Wonders
1985·6.8
Night of 100 Stars II
1985·6.8
Next Summer
1985·6.4
Claretta
1984·7.0
Henry IV
1984·6.5
The Ruffian
1983·6.3
Burden of Dreams
1982·7.6
Bankers Also Have Souls
1982·4.8
Fitzcarraldo
1982·7.6
Famous T & A
1982·5.5
The Skin
1981·6.3
The Salamander
1981·5.5
Si salvi chi vuole
1980·7.0
Escape to Athena
1979·5.7
Corleone
1978·7.6
The Gun
1978·6.4
Little Girl in Blue Velvet
1978·5.7
Fire's Share
1978·5.6
Goodbye & Amen
1977·6.6
I Am the Law
1977·6.6
Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti
1977·9.0
A Common Sense of Modesty
1976·5.8
Blonde in Black Leather
1975·7.4
Libera, My Love
1975·5.8
Midnight Pleasures
1975·5.7
Conversation Piece
1974·7.3
Blood Brothers
1974·6.2
One Russian Summer
1973·7.9
The Pariah
1972·6.8
The Audience
1972·6.5
A Girl in Australia
1971·6.6
The Legend of Frenchie King
1971·5.6
Popsy Pop
1971·6.0
The Adventures of Gerard
1970·5.9
The Red Tent
1969·6.1
Diary of a Telephone Operator
1969·5.8
The Conspirators
1969·7.6
Once Upon a Time in the West
1968·8.3
A Fine Pair
1968·4.5
The Hell with Heroes
1968·6.0
The Day of the Owl
1968·7.1
Don't Make Waves
1967·5.2
A Rose for Everyone
1967·6.0
The Professionals
1966·7.1
Blindfold
1966·6.3
Lost Command
1966·6.2
The Queens
1966·5.4
Sandra
1965·7.0
The Magnificent Cuckold
1964·6.6
Time of Indifference
1964·6.2
Circus World
1964·6.2
Bebo's Girl
1964·6.3
The Pink Panther
1963·6.8
The Leopard
1963·7.7
8½
1963·8.1
Careless
1962·7.4
Cartouche
1962·6.3
Auguste
1961·4.5
The Lions Are Loose
1961·5.9
The Lovemakers
1961·6.3
Girl with a Suitcase
1961·7.1
Rocco and His Brothers
1960·8.0
The Dolphins
1960·6.6
Austerlitz
1960·6.6
Il bell'Antonio
1960·7.1
Fiasco in Milan
1959·6.9
Upstairs and Downstairs
1959·5.8
The Facts of Murder
1959·7.2
The Magistrate
1959·6.7
Goha
1959·5.6
Venetian Honeymoon
1959·6.5
South Wind
1959·7.7
3 Strangers in Rome
1958·5.4
Big Deal on Madonna Street
1958·8.1
Algeria in Flames
1958·8.5
Les Anneaux d'Or
1956·7.5