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 i...
All Roads Lead to Rome
2016
Conversation Piece
1974
Something to Do with Death
2003
Once Upon a Time in the West
1968
Luchino Visconti
2002
Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad
2009
Lost Command
1966
Sergio Leone, une Amérique de légende
2018
The Day of the Owl
1968
Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion
2016
3 Strangers in Rome
1958
I Am the Law
1977
Rocco and His Brothers
1960
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
2003
Diary of a Telephone Operator
1969
Heart of the Festival
2002
The Magic of Fellini
2002
South Wind
1959
The French Revolution
1989
Una gita a Roma
2017
The Pink Panther
1963
La Loi de Julien, Le bon fils
2017
Becoming Italian with Signora Enrica
2011
Act of Sorrow
1990
Escape to Athena
1979
Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things
2006
The Lovemakers
1961
Goodbye & Amen
1977
Libera, My Love
1975
Cartouche
1962
Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
2000
The String
2009
Henry IV
1984
The Magistrate
1959
The Legend of Frenchie King
1971
Il falso bugiardo
2008
Venetian Honeymoon
1959
Corleone
1978