Italian actress who appeared in films including Claudia Cardinard 8½ and LeopardHe passed away at the age of 87.
Cardinard passed away at her children’s company at her home in Nemours, France, her agent, Laurent Savley, told AFP news agency.
“She leaves us with a legacy of free and inspired women, both as women and as artists,” Savley said.
Cardinard was a key figure in the international expansion of European cinema in the 1960s, appearing in films by fellow people, including Federico Fellini and Lucino Visconti.
Born in Tunis, Tunisia, in 1938, Cardinal entered the film industry by winning a beauty contest for the age of 16 as “Tunisia’s most beautiful Italian woman.” The award was a trip to the Venice Film Festival, where she was approached by industry executives about her work in film.
After the first screen role in Jacques Baratier’s Gar Starring Omar Sharif, Cardinale broke out with something like Visconti’s 1960 crime caper Rocco and his brothers.
1963 became Anus Mirabilis of Cardinal through three major films. She updated her collaboration with Visconti and lead actor Alan Delon in the drama LeopardAlso starring Bart Lancaster.
She appeared in Fellini’s Metafiction Classic 8½ As Claudia, the film star, cast by Marcello Mastroianni film director as the ideal woman.
In the same year, Cardinale created an important US breakthrough as a princess Pink Panther Alongside Peter Sellers’ Inspector Crusau. Cardinard returned to the franchise in 1993 Pink Panther Son.
Other major roles in the decade include the 1967 sex comedy Don’t make waves And the west of Sergio Leone Once upon a time in the West 1968.
Cardinard returned to European cinemas towards the end of the decade and won the Italian David Di Donatello Award for Best Actress Owl Day 1968 and Australian girl 1972.
She maintained a successful screen career for over 60 years and played the role of Werner Herzog in 1982 Fitzcalardand reunite with Mastroani at Marco Bellocchio’s Cannes selection Enrico IV 1984.
Cardinale was awarded the 2002 Lifetime Achievement Award in Berlin. A longtime advocate of women’s rights, she was appointed UNESCO’s goodwill ambassador in 2000 and was recognized for her work on the field.
She had two children: Patrick and Claudia. Until his death in 2017, Cardinard lived with Italian director Pasquale Squitieri for 42 years.
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