Actress Claudia Cardinale died on the age of 87 | EUROtoday

The actress Claudia Cardinale is lifeless. The movie diva died on Tuesday on the age of 87 with its kids within the French metropolis of Nemours close to Paris, as her agent Laurent Savry introduced to the AFP information company. The French-Italian actress, born in Tunis, performed in additional than 150 worldwide movies; It was thought-about a muse of filmmakers reminiscent of 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,” Savry wrote in a message to AFP.

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 received a visit to the movie pageant in Venice. There she attracted the eye of a number of administrators.

The finest -known administrators of Italy tore themselves round “Die Cardinale”, Visconti and Fellini made them their muse. Visconti shot “Rocco and his brothers” and “The Leopard” along with her within the early Sixties. With her efficiency in Sergio Leone’s 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 reminiscent of “The Rosarote Panther” and “Circus World”.

Overall, the actress performed with the smoky voice in additional than 150 movies. For her life’s work in 1993 she was awarded the Golden Lion in Venice and in 2002 in Berlin with the Golden Bear.