Italian actress Claudia Cardinale has passed away at the age of 87 in her home in Nemours near Paris, surrounded by her children, reports Baltimore Chronicle with reference to AFP. Her agent, Laurent Savary, confirmed her death on September 23.
Cardinale was born on April 15, 1938, in Tunisia. After winning a beauty contest, she attended the Venice Film Festival and received her first film offer. Early in her career, the actress was sexually assaulted, became pregnant, and decided to keep the child. For several years, her son Patrick was officially considered her younger brother. “I had to accept this lie to avoid scandal and protect my career,” Cardinale later revealed.
In her early films, her voice was dubbed because she did not speak Italian. At the age of 20, she became a symbol of Italy, despite hardly speaking the language, she wrote in her 2005 autobiography My Stars. Her first film featuring her own voice was 8½, filmed when she was 25. That same year, she appeared in The Leopard by Luchino Visconti. “Visconti wanted me as a brunette with long hair. Fellini wanted me as a blonde,” she recalled.
Throughout her career, Cardinale appeared in more than 120 films, including Blake Edwards’ The Pink Panther, Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West, and Mikhail Kalatozov’s The Red Tent. Her co-stars included Marcello Mastroianni, Henry Fonda, Marlon Brando, Alain Delon, Sean Connery, and Burt Lancaster.
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