Claudia Cardinale

ActorCrew Apr 15 (died age 87) Tunis, Tunisia 1948–2025 (77 year career)

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Biography

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 inclu…

Known For

Film

Once Upon a Time in the West

Jill

Film

8½

Claudia

Film

Big Deal on Madonna Street

Carmelina

Film

The Leopard

Angelica Sedara / Bastiana

Film

Rocco and His Brothers

Ginetta

Film

Fitzcarraldo

Molly

Film

Jesus of Nazareth

The Adulteress

Film

The Pink Panther

The Princess Dala

Filmography

Acting (192)

Movies (162)

The Life of Mirrors

2025

The Island of Forgiveness

2022

as Agostina

Claudia la mystérieuse

2022

as Self

6.0

Fellinopolis

2021

as Self - Actress (archive footage)

6.5

We Are Cinema

2021

as Self (archive footage)

9.5

Rogue City

2020

as Catarina Bastiani

5.9

Nana Mouskouri, Momente ihres Lebens

2020

as Self (archive footage)

6.0

Gina, Sophia, Claudia, trois symboles de la féminité à l'italienne

2019

as Self

Claudia Cardinale, la créature du secret

2019

as Self (archive footage)

6.8

Dios de monoambiente

2018

as Self (archive footage)

Sergio Leone, une Amérique de légende

2018

as Self (archive footage)

7.1

Rudy Valentino

2018

as Zia Rosa

La Loi de Julien, Le bon fils

2017

as Irène Delamarche

6.9

Nonnas on the Run

2017

as Angela

Nobili bugie

2017

as Duchess

5.3

An Italian Indian: The Pink Panther Princess With Claudia Cardinale

2017

as Self

La Folle Histoire de Jean-Paul Belmondo

as Self

Una gita a Roma

as Marguerite

The Blind and the Cardinal

2016

as 'La Cardinale'

All Roads Lead to Rome

2016

as Carmen

5.0

Belmondo by Belmondo

2016

as Self (archive footage)

7.8

Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion

2016

as Self (archive footage)

1.0

Twice Upon a Time in the West

2015

as Claudia

8.5

Marcello Mastroianni, latin lover

2015

as Self

Effie Gray

as Viscountess

The Silent Mountain

as Nuria Calzolari

Last Stop

as Rosa

Cinéma Jacques Perrin

2014

as Self

Joy de V.

2013

as Signora Morosini

Alberto il grande

2013

as Self

7.5

The Artist and the Model

as Léa

Gebo and the Shadow

as Doroteia

Monicelli: La versione di Mario

2012

as Self (archive footage)

5.5

The Years of Lost Images

2012

as Self

Becoming Italian with Signora Enrica

2011

as Signora Enrica

6.4

Belmondo, itinéraire...

2011

as Self

7.7

Hollywood Invasion

2011

as Self (archive footage)

Father

2011

as Elvira

Il giorno della Shoah

2010

as Ester

A View of Love

2010

as La mère de Marc

5.9

La Traversée du désir

as Self

The String

as Sara

Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad

2009

as Self

7.0

Hollywood sul Tevere

2009

Man & Wife, Cop & Crook

2008

as Cécile Deschamps

4.8

Il falso bugiardo

2008

as Self (archive footage)

Cherche fiancé tous frais payés

2007

as Elisabeth

5.5

Marcello, una vita dolce

2006

as Self

5.2

Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things

as Self

The Demon Stirs

as Claudia Cardinale

A Dying Breed: The Making of 'The Leopard'

2004

as Self

Por un puñado de sueños

2004

as Self - Interviewee

The Last Sequence

2003

as Self

6.0

Something to Do with Death

as Self - Actress

An Opera of Violence

as Self - Actress

Fellini: I'm a Born Liar

2003

as Claudia (archive footage) (uncredited)

6.1

The Wages of Sin

2003

as Self - Actress

7.4

And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...

as Madame Falconetti

Luchino Visconti

as Self

The Magic of Fellini

as Self (archive footage)

2.8

Heart of the Festival

2002

as Self (archive footage)

4.0

Visconti: La verdad del melodrama

2001

as Self

8.0

Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone

as Self

My Best Fiend

as Self

Li chiamarono... briganti!

1999

as Donna Assunta

5.1

Riches, belles, etc.

1998

as Baroness Mitsy

Stupor Mundi

1997

as Costanza d'Altavilla / d'Aragona

Sous les pieds des femmes

1997

as Aya 1996

Desert of Fire

1997

as Leila

9.3

The Man with the Cigar in His Mouth

1997

as Self

A Summer in La Goulette

1996

as Self

6.0

Elles ne pensent qu'à ça...

1994

as Margaux

3.5

Alex et Marie

1994

as Narrator (voice)

Il gattopardo: Viaggio della memoria

1994

as Self

Son of the Pink Panther

1993

as Maria Gambrelli

4.6

588 rue Paradis

1992

as Araxi (Mayrig) Zakarian

7.2

Mother

1991

as Araxi (Mayrig) Zakarian

Drums of Fire

as Roxelane

Act of Sorrow

as Elena

The French Revolution

1989

as Duchesse de Polignac

7.5

Hiver 54, l'abbé Pierre

as Hélène Larmier

A Man in Love

as Julia Steiner

Naso di cane

as Laura

Woman of Wonders

1985

as Maura

6.5

Night of 100 Stars II

as Self

Next Summer

as Jeanne

Claretta

as Miriam Petacci

Henry IV

as Matilda

The Ruffian

as La 'baronne'

Fitzcarraldo

as Molly

Famous T & A

as (archive footage)

Burden of Dreams

as Self - Actress

Bankers Also Have Souls

as Antonella Dufour

The Salamander

as Elena Leporello

The Skin

as Principessa Consuelo Caracciolo

6.3

Si salvi chi vuole

1980

as Luisa

Escape to Athena

as Eleana

The Gun

as Marta Compagna

Little Girl in Blue Velvet

1978

as Francesca Modigliani

Corleone

as Rosa Accordino

Fire's Share

as Catherine Hansen

I Am the Law

as Anna

Goodbye & Amen

as Aliki

Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti

1977

as Pauline Bonaparte

A Common Sense of Modesty

1976

as Armida Ballarin

5.7

Blonde in Black Leather

as Claudia

Libera, My Love

as Libera Valente

Midnight Pleasures

as Gabriella Sansoni

Blood Brothers

as Lucia Esposito

Conversation Piece

as Professor's Wife (uncredited)

One Russian Summer

as Anya

The Pariah

as Georgia Saratov

The Audience

as Aiche

The Legend of Frenchie King

as Marie Sarrazin

Popsy Pop

as Popsy Pop

A Girl in Australia

as Carmela

The Adventures of Gerard

1970

as Teresa, Countess of Morales

5.6

Diary of a Telephone Operator

as Marta Chiaretti

The Red Tent

as Valeria

The Conspirators

as Giuditta Di Castro

7.6

Once Upon a Time in the West

as Jill

The Day of the Owl

as Rosa Nicolosi

The Hell with Heroes

as Elena

A Fine Pair

as Esmeralda Marini

Don't Make Waves

as Laura

A Rose for Everyone

as Rosa

The Professionals

as Maria

Blindfold

as Vicky Vicenti

The Queens

as Armenia ("Fata Armenia")

Lost Command

as Aisha

Sandra

as Sandra Dawson

Circus World

as Toni Alfredo

Time of Indifference

as Carla

The Magnificent Cuckold

as Maria Grazia

Bebo's Girl

as Mara

8½

as Claudia

The Leopard

as Angelica Sedara / Bastiana

The Pink Panther

as The Princess Dala

Cartouche

as Vénus

Careless

as Angiolina Zarri

The Lions Are Loose

as Albertine Ferran

Girl with a Suitcase

as Aida Zepponi

Auguste

as Cameo Appearance (uncredited)

1.0

The Lovemakers

1961

as Bianca

6.2

Rocco and His Brothers

as Ginetta

Il bell'Antonio

as Barbara Puglisi

The Dolphins

as Fedora Santini

The Battle of Austerlitz

as Pauline Bonaparte

Venetian Honeymoon

as Angelica

Fiasco in Milan

as Carmelina Nicosia

Upstairs and Downstairs

1959

as Maria

5.6

The Facts of Murder

1959

as La servetta, Assuntina

Goha

as Amina

South Wind

as Grazia Macri

The Magistrate

as Maria

Big Deal on Madonna Street

as Carmelina

3 Strangers in Rome

as Marisa

Algeria in Flames

as Self - Arab woman (uncredited)

8.5

Les Anneaux d'Or

1956

as A young woman

7.5

Piccolina bella

Rumore

Second to Nun

as Self - Festival Actress

Television (30)

Bulle

2020

as Marthe

7.5

Il bello delle donne... alcuni anni dopo

2017

as Laura Banti

3.5

Mia, Liebe meines Lebens

2016

as Mary O'Sullivan

7.0

The Story of Film: An Odyssey

2011

as Self

7.7

Ulisse - The pleasure of discovery

as Self

Vivement dimanche

as Self

Nostromo

as Teresa Viola

Desert of Fire

as Leila

10-07: L'affaire Zeus

1995

as Agent

Flash – Der Fotoreporter

1993

as Gilda Ricci / Monica Ricci

Stars 90

1990

as Self

6.2

The French Revolution

1989

as Yolande-Gabrielle de Polastron, duchesse de Polignac (« Les Années Lumière »)

Sacrée Soirée

as Self

Téléthon

as Self

History

as Ida Mancuso

Princess Daisy

1983

as Annabelle de Fourdemont Valensky

Champs-Elysées

as Self

Jesus of Nazareth

as The Adulteress

Midi Première

as Self

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

as Self

Numéro un

as Self

Spécial cinéma

as Self

Midi trente

as Self

Samedi soir

as Self

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962

as Self

7.5

The Merv Griffin Show

as Self

Cinépanorama

as Self

Reflets de Cannes

as Self

The Oscars

as Self

Bambi

as Self

Crew (1)

Movies (1)

Tokyo Olympiad

1965

Thanks

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