Claudia Cardinale

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1938-04-15 (87 years old)

Place of Birth

Tunis, Tunisia

Claudia Cardinale

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 actre...

Acting

1963

as Claudia

1963

The Pink Panther

as The Princess Dala

1963

The Leopard

as Angelica Sedara / Bastiana

1967

1989

The French Revolution

as Duchesse de Polignac

1974

Blood Brothers

as Lucia Esposito

1982

Famous T & A

as (archive footage)

1966

2019

1969

The Red Tent

as Valeria

1999

1959

The Facts of Murder

as La servetta, Assuntina

1982

Fitzcarraldo

as Molly

2002

The Magic of Fellini

as Self (archive footage)

1962

Cartouche

as Vénus

2002

1979

1982

Burden of Dreams

as Self - Actress

1964

Circus World

as Toni Alfredo

1971

1971

1993

Son of the Pink Panther

as Maria Gambrelli

1961

Girl with a Suitcase

as Aida Zepponi

1982

Bankers Also Have Souls

as Antonella Dufour

1960

The Battle of Austerlitz

as Pauline Bonaparte

2009

The String

as Sara

1972

The Audience

as Aiche

1983

The Ruffian

as La 'baronne'

1987

A Man in Love

as Julia Steiner

2010

A View of Love

as La mère de Marc

1976

A Common Sense of Modesty

as Armida Ballarin

1974

Conversation Piece

as Professor's Wife (uncredited)

1965

Sandra

as Sandra Dawson

1972

The Pariah

as Georgia Saratov

2008

Man & Wife, Cop & Crook

as Cécile Deschamps

1960

Handsome Antonio

as Barbara Puglisi

1961

The Lions Are Loose

as Albertine Ferran

1999

1968

The Day of the Owl

as Rosa Nicolosi

2012

Monicelli: La versione di Mario

as Self (archive footage)

2005

The Demon Stirs

as Claudia Cardinale

1975

Midnight Pleasures

as Gabriella Sansoni

2012

1977

2003

An Opera of Violence

as Self - Actress

1991

Mother

as Araxi (Mayrig) Zakarian

1992

588 rue Paradis

as Araxi (Mayrig) Zakarian

2014

Effie Gray

as Viscountess

1975

Libera, My Love

as Libera Valente

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Second to Nun

as Self - Festival Actress

1981

The Salamander

as Elena Leporello

1961

2013

Joy de V.

as Signora Morosini

1964

1997

Stupor Mundi

as Costanza d'Altavilla / d'Aragona

1978

Corleone

as Rosa Accordino

1966

Blindfold

as Vicky Vicenti

1969

1966

The Queens

as Armenia ("Fata Armenia")

1989

Hiver 54, l'abbé Pierre

as Hélène Larmier

1985

1962

Careless

as Angiolina Zarri

1970

The Adventures of Gerard

as Teresa, Countess of Morales

2014

The Silent Mountain

as Nuria Calzolari

1990

1969

The Conspirators

as Giuditta Di Castro

1960

The Dolphins

as Fedora Santini

1978

Little Girl in Blue Velvet

as Francesca Modigliani

2021

Fellinopolis

as Self - Actress (archive footage)

1977

1971

Popsy Pop

as Popsy Pop

1959

1978

The Gun

as Marta Compagna

1964

1986

History

as Ida Mancuso

1998

Riches, belles, etc.

as Baroness Mitsy

1997

1984

Henry IV

as Matilda

1990

Drums of Fire

as Roxelane

1958

1959

1985

Next Summer

as Jeanne

1981

The Skin

as Principessa Consuelo Caracciolo

1980

2016

2021

We Are Cinema

as Self (archive footage)

1978

Fire's Share

as Catherine Hansen

1959

Goha

as Amina

1966

Lost Command

as Aisha

1959

South Wind

as Grazia Macri

2017

Nobili bugie

as Duchess

1984

Claretta

as Miriam Petacci

1994

Alex et Marie

as Narrator (voice)

1959

Fiasco in Milan

as Carmelina Nicosia

2017

Una gita a Roma

as Marguerite

2018

Rudy Valentino

as Zia Rosa

2014

Last Stop

as Rosa

2003

The Wages of Sin

as Self - Actress

2016

Belmondo by Belmondo

as Self (archive footage)

2018

1961

Auguste

as Cameo Appearance (uncredited)

2017

2011

Hollywood Invasion

as Self (archive footage)

1968

A Fine Pair

as Esmeralda Marini

2008

Il falso bugiardo

as Self (archive footage)

1977

1956

Les Anneaux d'Or

as A young woman

1986

Naso di cane

as Laura

2004

Por un puñado de sueños

as Self - Interviewee

2003

Fellini: I'm a Born Liar

as Claudia (archive footage) (uncredited)

2002

2020

Rogue City

as Catarina Bastiani

2017

La Loi de Julien, Le bon fils

as Irène Delamarche

2003

2016

2011

Father

as Elvira

2018

Dios de monoambiente

as Self (archive footage)

2020

Nana Mouskouri, Momente ihres Lebens

as Self (archive footage)

Production

1965

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