--- name: "Claudia Cardinale" canonical: "https://film.one/person/claudia-cardinale" fi1m_id: "claudia-cardinale" imdb_id: "nm0001012" tmdb_id: 4959 wikidata_id: "Q107006" roles: ["Actor"] born: "15 April 1938" died: "23 September 2025" reviewed_on_fi1m: 5 average_fi1m_score: 88 average_as: "actor" average_over: 4 updated: "2026-09-26T15:42:23.287328+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Claudia Cardinale ## Identity Claudia Cardinale - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/claudia-cardinale - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** claudia-cardinale - **IMDb ID:** nm0001012 - **TMDB ID:** 4959 - **Wikidata ID:** Q107006 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia_Cardinale, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107006, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001012/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4959 Actor. Born 15 April 1938 in La Goulette, Protectorat français de Tunisie. Died 23 September 2025. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 15 April 1938, La Goulette, Protectorat français de Tunisie - **Died:** 23 September 2025 - **Active:** 1960–1982 - **Also known as:** Claude Joséphine Rose Cardinale, Claude Cardinale - **Titles on Fi1m:** 5: 4 acting, 1 other - **Frequently works with:** [Alain Delon](https://film.one/person/alain-delon.md), [Enrico Medioli](https://film.one/person/enrico-medioli.md), [Goffredo Lombardo](https://film.one/person/goffredo-lombardo.md), [Luchino Visconti](https://film.one/person/luchino-visconti.md), [Massimo Franciosa](https://film.one/person/massimo-franciosa.md), [Pasquale Festa Campanile](https://film.one/person/pasquale-festa-campanile.md), [Suso Cecchi d'Amico](https://film.one/person/suso-cecchi-damico.md) - **Venice Film Festival:** 1 Venice prize (1 won) - **Average Fi1m score:** 88, as actor, over 4 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 1960s 90 (4), 1980s 82 (1) - **Fi1m against the critics:** 88 to 84 across 4 titles - **Score spread:** 4 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 0 under 60 - **Lead roles:** 4 of 4 acting credits billed first or second - **Genres:** Drama 4, Adventure 1, Western 1 - **Screen time:** 11 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $5m across 1 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia_Cardinale, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107006, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001012/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4959 ## Streaming the US now - **HBO Max:** [*8½*](https://film.one/film/812.md) (91) - **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Fitzcarraldo*](https://film.one/film/fitzcarraldo.md) (82) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Claudia Cardinale > Claudia Cardinale spent her first years on screen being looked at and dubbed, then built a career out of women every man stares at who turn out to be the only ones with a plan. Leone gave her the best of it. For the first years of her career, audiences did not hear Claudia Cardinale’s voice. It was low and hoarse and did not match the face, so the producers had her dubbed. Fellini kept it. In *8½* (1963) she is the girl in white who appears with a glass of water whenever Guido runs out of ideas, and Guido knows before we do that a grown man should not want such a thing. Cardinale plays it serene and faintly amused, and out of the dream comes a rasp. The fantasy has a body and the body has been up late. She had arrived by the usual route: a beauty contest in 1957, a trip to Venice, a contract, small parts, then Monicelli’s *Big Deal on Madonna Street* (1958) and Visconti’s *Rocco and His Brothers* (1960). The year that made her was 1963, when she shot *The Leopard* for Visconti and *8½* for Fellini at the same time, one working with theatrical precision and the other without a script, and *The Pink Panther* on top. Hollywood followed in the mid-1960s, with *The Professionals* among others, and mostly did not know what to do with her beyond photographing her; Princess Dala in *The Pink Panther* is there to be admired and for no other purpose. She kept her European work going, which was wise. Then Leone. *Once Upon a Time in the West* (1968) has one woman in it who matters, and she is the whole of its future. Jill steps off a train into a town that does not yet exist, and for 166 minutes Fonda, Bronson and Robards circle her, each certain he is the story. Cardinale gives Jill a practical, unhurried toughness: she has plainly seen worse than any of these men and does not bother to say so. We went in for the faces and for Morricone and came out having watched her most of all, because she is the only person on screen with a plan that lasts past the next gunfight. The later work was less kind to her. Her contract with the producer Franco Cristaldi ended around 1975, and much of what followed was with the director Pasquale Squitieri, in films that have not travelled far. Herzog’s *Fitzcarraldo* (1982) is the exception. She is not the reason to see it, Kinski and the river are, but she is the one person in it behaving sensibly, on a shoot that was famously difficult, and Herzog noticed. She kept working into her eighties, with a last film, *The Island of Forgiveness*, in 2022, and died in 2025 at 87. Start with Leone, then Fellini, then *The Leopard* on the largest screen you own, for the ballroom. The Hollywood films are for the curious who want to see what a studio does with an actress it does not understand, which is mostly light her well and ask her to stand still. ## Biography Claudia Cardinale was an Italian actress born on 15 April 1938 in La Goulette, in the French protectorate of Tunisia. She entered the film industry after winning a beauty contest in Tunisia in 1957, which led to a trip to Italy and her first screen roles. She appeared in more than 150 films over six decades. Her notable credits include *Big Deal on Madonna Street* (1958), *Rocco and His Brothers* (1960), *The Leopard* (1963), *8½* (1963) as Claudia, *The Pink Panther* (1963), *Once Upon a Time in the West* (1968), *Fitzcarraldo* (1982) and *Rogue City* (2020). She worked with directors including Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti, Sergio Leone and Werner Herzog. Cardinale died on 23 September 2025 in Nemours, France. *Sources: hollywoodreporter.com, nytimes.com, apnews.com, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (5) ### Performed in (4) — the average rests on these - *Fitzcarraldo* (1982), Fi1m 82, as Molly — [page](https://film.one/film/fitzcarraldo.md) - *Once Upon a Time in the West* (1968), Fi1m 91, as Jill — [page](https://film.one/film/once-upon-a-time-in-the-west.md) - *8½* (1963), Fi1m 91, as Claudia — [page](https://film.one/film/812.md) - *The Leopard* (1963), Fi1m 88, as Angelica Sedara / Bastiana — [page](https://film.one/film/the-leopard.md) ### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited - *Tokyo Olympiad* (1965), Fi1m 88, Thanks — [page](https://film.one/film/tokyo-olympiad.md) ## Complete filmography (135) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *The Life of Mirrors* (2025), Actor - *The Island of Forgiveness* (2022), as Agostina - *Morceaux de Cannes* (2021), Actor - *Rogue City* (2020), as Catarina Bastiani - *Bulle* (2020), series, as Marthe - *Rudy Valentino* (2018), as Zia Rosa - *La Loi de Julien, Le bon fils* (2017), as Irène Delamarche - *Una gita a Roma* (2017), as Marguerite - *Nobili bugie* (2017), as Duchess - *Il bello delle donne... alcuni anni dopo* (2017), series, as Laura Banti - *Nonnas on the Run* (2017), as Angela - *The Blind and the Cardinal* (2016), as 'La Cardinale' - *Mia, Liebe meines Lebens* (2016), series, as Mary O'Sullivan - *All Roads Lead to Rome* (2016), as Carmen - *Twice Upon a Time in the West* (2015), as Claudia - *Last Stop* (2014), as Rosa - *The Silent Mountain* (2014), as Nuria Calzolari - *Effie Gray* (2014), as Viscountess - *Joy de V.* (2013), as Signora Morosini - *The Artist and the Model* (2012), as Léa - *Gebo and the Shadow* (2012), as Doroteia - *The Bardot mystery* (2012), Actor - *The King, the Squirrel and the Grass Snake* (2011), series, as La duchesse de Polignac - *Becoming Italian with Signora Enrica* (2011), as Signora Enrica - *Father* (2011), as Elvira - *A View of Love* (2010), as La mère de Marc - *Il giorno della Shoah* (2010), as Ester - *Hollywood sul Tevere* (2009), Actor - *The String* (2009), as Sara - *Man & Wife, Cop & Crook* (2008), as Cécile Deschamps - *Cherche fiancé tous frais payés* (2007), as Elisabeth - *The Demon Stirs* (2005), as Claudia Cardinale - *Fellini: I'm a Born Liar* (2003), as Claudia (archive footage) (uncredited) - *And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...* (2002), as Madame Falconetti - *Li chiamarono... briganti!* (1999), as Donna Assunta - *Riches, belles, etc.* (1998), as Baroness Mitsy - *Desert of Fire* (1997), series, as Leila - *Sous les pieds des femmes* (1997), as Aya 1996 - *Stupor Mundi* (1997), as Costanza d'Altavilla / d'Aragona - *Nostromo* (1997), series, as Teresa Viola - *Desert of Fire* (1997), as Leila - *A Summer in La Goulette* (1996), as Claudia Cardinale - *10-07: L'affaire Zeus* (1995), series, as Agent - *Elles ne pensent qu'à ça...* (1994), as Margaux - *Alex et Marie* (1994), as Narrator (voice) - *Son of the Pink Panther* (1993), as Maria Gambrelli - *Flash – Der Fotoreporter* (1993), series, as Gilda Ricci / Monica Ricci - *588 rue Paradis* (1992), as Araxi (Mayrig) Zakarian - *Mother* (1991), as Araxi (Mayrig) Zakarian - *Drums of Fire* (1990), as Roxelane - *Act of Sorrow* (1990), as Elena - *Hiver 54, l'abbé Pierre* (1989), as Hélène Larmier - *The French Revolution* (1989), series, as Yolande-Gabrielle de Polastron, duchesse de Polignac (« Les Années Lumière ») - *The French Revolution* (1989), as Duchesse de Polignac - *A Man in Love* (1987), as Julia Steiner - *Naso di cane* (1986), series, as Laura - *History* (1986), series, as Ida Mancuso - *Woman of Wonders* (1985), as Maura - *Next Summer* (1985), as Jeanne - *Claretta* (1984), as Miriam Petacci - *Henry IV* (1984), as Matilda - *Princess Daisy* (1983), series, as Annabelle de Fourdemont Valensky - *The Ruffian* (1983), as La « Baronne » - *Bankers Also Have Souls* (1982), as Antonella Dufour - *Fitzcarraldo* (1982), as Molly — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/fitzcarraldo.md) - *Famous T & A* (1982), as (archive footage) - *The Skin* (1981), as Principessa Consuelo Caracciolo - *The Salamander* (1981), as Elena Leporello - *Si salvi chi vuole* (1980), as Luisa - *Escape to Athena* (1979), as Eleana - *Corleone* (1978), as Rosa Accordino - *The Gun* (1978), as Marta Compagna - *Little Girl in Blue Velvet* (1978), as Francesca Modigliani - *Fire's Share* (1978), as Catherine Hansen - *Goodbye & Amen* (1977), as Aliki - *I Am the Law* (1977), as Anna - *Jesus of Nazareth* (1977), series, as The Adulteress - *Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti* (1977), as Pauline Bonaparte - *A Common Sense of Modesty* (1976), as Armida Ballarin - *Blonde in Black Leather* (1975), as Claudia - *Libera, My Love* (1975), as Libera Valente - *Midnight Pleasures* (1975), as Gabriella Sansoni - *Conversation Piece* (1974), as Professor's Wife (uncredited) - *Blood Brothers* (1974), as Lucia Esposito - *One Russian Summer* (1973), as Anya - *The Pariah* (1972), as Georgia Saratov - *The Audience* (1972), as Aiche - *A Girl in Australia* (1971), as Carmela - *The Legend of Frenchie King* (1971), as Marie Sarrazin - *Popsy Pop* (1971), as Popsy Pop - *The Adventures of Gerard* (1970), as Teresa, Countess of Morales - *The Red Tent* (1969), as Valeria - *Diary of a Telephone Operator* (1969), as Marta Chiaretti - *The Conspirators* (1969), as Giuditta Di Castro - *Once Upon a Time in the West* (1968), as Jill — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/film/once-upon-a-time-in-the-west.md) - *A Fine Pair* (1968), as Esmeralda Marini - *The Hell with Heroes* (1968), as Elena - *The Day of the Owl* (1968), as Rosa Nicolosi - *Don't Make Waves* (1967), as Laura - *A Rose for Everyone* (1967), as Rosa - *The Professionals* (1966), as Maria - *Blindfold* (1966), as Vicky Vicenti - *Lost Command* (1966), as Aisha - *The Queens* (1966), as Armenia ("Fata Armenia") - *Sandra* (1965), as Sandra Dawson - *Tokyo Olympiad* (1965), Thanks — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/tokyo-olympiad.md) - *The Magnificent Cuckold* (1964), as Maria Grazia - *Time of Indifference* (1964), as Carla - *Circus World* (1964), as Toni Alfredo - *Bebo's Girl* (1964), as Mara - *The Pink Panther* (1963), as The Princess Dala - *The Leopard* (1963), as Angelica Sedara / Bastiana — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/the-leopard.md) - *8½* (1963), as Claudia — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/film/812.md) - *Careless* (1962), as Angiolina Zarri - *Cartouche* (1962), as Vénus - *Auguste* (1961), as Cameo Appearance (uncredited) - *The Lions Are Loose* (1961), as Albertine Ferran - *The Lovemakers* (1961), as Bianca - *Girl with a Suitcase* (1961), as Aida Zepponi - *Rocco and His Brothers* (1960), as Ginetta - *The Dolphins* (1960), as Fedora Santini - *Austerlitz* (1960), as Pauline Bonaparte - *Il bell'Antonio* (1960), as Barbara Puglisi - *Fiasco in Milan* (1959), as Carmelina Nicosia - *Upstairs and Downstairs* (1959), as Maria - *The Facts of Murder* (1959), as La servetta, Assuntina - *The Magistrate* (1959), as Maria - *Goha* (1959), as Amina - *Venetian Honeymoon* (1959), as Angelica - *South Wind* (1959), as Grazia Macri - *3 Strangers in Rome* (1958), as Marisa - *Big Deal on Madonna Street* (1958), as Carmelina - *Les Anneaux d'Or* (1956), as A young woman - *Piccolina bella*, Actor - *Rumore*, Actor ## Gallery - ![Claudia Cardinale](https://film.one/media/person/59974/gallery-9fb641ca7f75.jpg) Claudia Cardinale — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Claudia_Cardinale_%281960_hq%29.jpg/1280px-Claudia_Cardinale_%281960_hq%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Walk of Fame - Aleja Gwiazd in Kraków. Plaque for Claudia Cardinale (2024)](https://film.one/media/person/59974/gallery-3ab89d720f41.jpg) Walk of Fame - Aleja Gwiazd in Kraków. Plaque for Claudia Cardinale (2024) — Kritzolina, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Aleja_Gwiazd_in_Krak%C3%B3w_03.jpg/1280px-Aleja_Gwiazd_in_Krak%C3%B3w_03.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Ceduľa Artist´s Mission Award (Hercova misia) na MFF Art Film pripevnená na novom moste slávy v Trenčianských Tepliciach. (2024)](https://film.one/media/person/59974/gallery-0fe7d0ea1161.jpg) Ceduľa Artist´s Mission Award (Hercova misia) na MFF Art Film pripevnená na novom moste slávy v Trenčianských Tepliciach. (2024) — Pilifo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Art_Film_Fest_%282014%29_%E2%80%93_Claudia_Cardinale.jpg/1280px-Art_Film_Fest_%282014%29_%E2%80%93_Claudia_Cardinale.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Remise du prix d'honneur à Christophe Barratier (2018)](https://film.one/media/person/59974/gallery-54bdc7e44f42.jpg) Remise du prix d'honneur à Christophe Barratier (2018) — Association Regard Camera, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Christophe_Barratier.jpg/1280px-Christophe_Barratier.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Claudia Cardinale](https://film.one/media/person/59974/gallery-e4add738346d.jpg) Claudia Cardinale — Image via TMDB - ![Claudia Cardinale](https://film.one/media/person/59974/gallery-f2a71f87818d.jpg) Claudia Cardinale — Image via TMDB - ![Claudia Cardinale](https://film.one/media/person/59974/gallery-6322620fc6f7.jpg) Claudia Cardinale — Image via TMDB - ![Sortie des obsèques de Claudia Cardinale à l'église Saint-Roch de Paris, le 30 septembre 2025.](https://film.one/media/person/59974/gallery-c8a3cfec9eee.jpg) Sortie des obsèques de Claudia Cardinale à l'église Saint-Roch de Paris, le 30 septembre 2025. — ManoSolo13241324, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Claudia_Cardinale_obs%C3%A8ques.jpg/1280px-Claudia_Cardinale_obs%C3%A8ques.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![filmfestival, Brussels (2018)](https://film.one/media/person/59974/gallery-47c9fd359dc3.jpg) filmfestival, Brussels (2018) — Eddie Janssens, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Claudia_cardinale-1547303499.jpg/1280px-Claudia_cardinale-1547303499.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Claudia Cardinale](https://film.one/media/person/59974/gallery-00b7cdda9d9a.jpg) Claudia Cardinale — Image via TMDB - ![Claudia Cardinale](https://film.one/media/person/59974/gallery-87043f2640ec.jpg) Claudia Cardinale — Image via TMDB - ![Claudia Cardinale](https://film.one/media/person/59974/gallery-c20bb113f443.jpg) Claudia Cardinale — Image via TMDB ## Awards ### Venice Film Festival — 1 won - 1993: Lifetime Achievement (won) ### Berlin International Film Festival — 1 won - 2002: Golden Bear (won) ### Other awards — 15 won - Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic 2018: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (won) - Honorary Lumière Award 2013: Honorary Lumière Award (won) - Golden Eagle Awards 2011: Golden Eagle Awards (won) - Golden Orange Best Actress Award 2011: Golden Orange Best Actress Award (won), for *Signora Enrica* - Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic 2002: Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (won) - Honorary Golden Bear 2002: Honorary Golden Bear (won) - David di Donatello Award for Lifetime Achievement 1997: David di Donatello Award for Lifetime Achievement (won) - Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic 1995: Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (won) - Grolla d'oro for Lifetime Achievement 1992: Grolla d'oro for Lifetime Achievement (won) - Nastro d'Argento for Best Actress 1985: Nastro d'Argento for Best Actress (won), for *Claretta* - Nastro d'Argento for Best Supporting Actress 1982: Nastro d'Argento for Best Supporting Actress (won), for *The Skin* - David di Donatello for Best Actress 1972: David di Donatello for Best Actress (won), for *A Girl in Australia* - David di Donatello for Best Actress 1969: David di Donatello for Best Actress (won), for *The Day of the Owl* - Nastro d'Argento for Best Actress 1965: Nastro d'Argento for Best Actress (won), for *Bebo's Girl* - Grolla d'oro for Best Leading Actress 1964: Grolla d'oro for Best Leading Actress (won), for *Bebo's Girl* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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