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(190)
Self
1962
Self
1982
Self
1975
Self
1975
Self
1998
Self
1953
Self
1948
Self
1974
Self
1962
Jill
1968
Self
1987
Self
1975
Self - Host
1975
The Adulteress
1977
Self
1990
Self
2001
Self
1972
Self
1971
Self
1956
Angelica Sedara / Bastiana
1963
Self (archive footage)
2002
The Princess Dala
1963
Self
1987
Araxi (Mayrig) Zakarian
1992
Valeria
1969
Aisha
1966
Claudia
1963
Duchesse de Polignac
1989
Catarina Bastiani
2020
Self
2011
Carmen
2016
2025
Maria
1966
VĂ©nus
1962
Elena Leporello
1981
Eleana
1979
Molly
1982
Maria
1959
Ginetta
1960
Self
1954
Viscountess
2014
CĂ©cile Deschamps
2008
Maria Grazia
1964
Self
2006
Maria Gambrelli
1993
Self (archive footage)
2016
Araxi (Mayrig) Zakarian
1991
Amina
1959
Francesca Modigliani
1978
Georgia Saratov
1972
Toni Alfredo
1964
Laura
1967
Self (archive footage)
2021
Self
1996
Roxelane
1990
Pauline Bonaparte
1960
Julia Steiner
1987
Self
1999
Teresa Viola
1997
Catherine Hansen
1978
Self
2009
Carmelina Nicosia
1959
Self
2014
Signora Enrica
2011
La mère de Marc
2010
Annabelle de Fourdemont Valensky
1983
Self (archive footage)
2011
Aida Zepponi
1961
Professor's Wife (uncredited)
1974
Nuria Calzolari
2014
Self
2019
Madame Falconetti
2002
Hélène Larmier
1989
Matilda
1984
Bianca
1961
Marta Compagna
1978
Cameo Appearance (uncredited)
1961
Rosa Accordino
1978
Carmelina
1958
Marguerite
2017
Antonella Dufour
1982
Self - Actress
1982
Donna Assunta
1999
Principessa Consuelo Caracciolo
1981
Agostina
2022
Armenia ("Fata Armenia")
1966
Self (archive footage)
2002
Self (archive footage)
2008
Claudia Cardinale
2005
Sandra Dawson
1965
Vicky Vicenti
1966
Marie Sarrazin
1971
La 'baronne'
1983
Yolande-Gabrielle de Polastron, duchesse de Polignac (segment "Années Lumière, Les")
1989
Self
1985
Aliki
1977
Albertine Ferran
1961
La servetta, Assuntina
1959
Irène Delamarche
2017
(archive footage)
1982
Angela
2017
Rosa Nicolosi
1968
Rosa
1967
Barbara Puglisi
1960
Jeanne
1985
Signora Morosini
2013
Angiolina Zarri
1962
Self
2015
Lucia Esposito
1974
Marta Chiaretti
1969
Claudia (archive footage) (uncredited)
2003
Leila
1997
Libera Valente
1975
Elena
1968
Sara
2009
Self
2003
Mara
1964
Self
2000
Self
2009
Self
2011
Self (archive footage)
2016
Self
2002
Giuditta Di Castro
1969
Maura
1985
Grazia Macri
1959
Teresa, Countess of Morales
1970
Angelica
1959
Self
2017
Elisabeth
2007
Agent
1995
Claudia
1975
Self - Actress
2003
Self
1997
Elvira
2011
Self (archive footage)
2012
Elena
1990
Self - Actress (archive footage)
2021
Marthe
2020
Laura Banti
2017
Gabriella Sansoni
1975
LĂ©a
2012
Mary O'Sullivan
2016
Duchess
2017
Carla
1964
Armida Ballarin
1976
Carmela
1971
Self
2001
Anna
1977
Esmeralda Marini
1968
Aiche
1972
Gilda Ricci / Monica Ricci
1993
Self
2004
Self (archive footage)
2019
Self - Actress
2003
Fedora Santini
1960
Self
2006
Self
2012
Claudia
2015
Doroteia
2012
Ida Mancuso
1986
Baroness Mitsy
1998
Self - Actress
2003
Self (archive footage)
2018
Self (archive footage)
2018
Laura
1986
Popsy Pop
1971
Anya
1973
Luisa
1980
Zia Rosa
2018
Leila
1997
Maria
1959
Self - Festival Actress
Margaux
1994
Costanza d'Altavilla / d'Aragona
1997
Self - Interviewee
2004
Miriam Petacci
1984
Marisa
1958
Self
2013
Self (archive footage)
2020
Self
1994
Pauline Bonaparte
1977
'La Cardinale'
2016
Narrator (voice)
1994
Self
2022
Ester
2010
Self
2017
Rosa
2014
A young woman
1956
