Italian actress Claudia Cardinale is lifeless | EUROtoday

She labored with filmmakers like Visconti and Fellini and formed the Italian cinema of the Sixties. Now Italy’s movie diva Claudia Cardinale has died on the age of 87.

Claudia Cardinale is lifeless. The movie diva died on the age of 87 with its kids within the French metropolis of Nemours close to Paris.

The French-Italian actress, born in Tunis, performed in additional than 150 worldwide movies. It was thought of a muse of filmmakers equivalent to Luchino Visconti and Federico Fellini and the cinema icon of the Sixties. “She leaves us the legacy of a free and inspired woman – as a woman as well as as an artist,” wrote her agent.

“The most beautiful Italian of Tunis”

Claudia Cardinale was born on April 15, 1938 in La Goulette at Tunis because the daughter of a French girl and a Sicilian. At the age of 17 she was elected “most beautiful Italian of Tunis” and gained a visit to the movie pageant in Venice.

There she attracted the eye of a number of administrators. The most well-known administrators of Italy tore themselves round “Die Cardinale”.

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Visconti shot “Rocco and his brothers” and “The Leopard” along with her within the early Sixties. With her efficiency in Sergio Leones Western traditional “Play me the song of death” from 1969, Cardinale went down in movie historical past. The public within the USA delighted the Italian with movies equivalent to “The Rosarote Panther” and “Circus World”.

For her life’s work in 1993 she was awarded the Golden Lion in Venice and in 2002 in Berlin with the Golden Bear.