Claudia Cardinale Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Profession Actress
Italian nationality
Birth April 15, 1938 (Tunis, Tunisia)

BIOGRAPHY
Voted the most beautiful Italian in Tunis, Claudia Cardinale wins a trip to Venice during the film festival at seventeen. There, she received offers from many producers, but refused to work in cinema because she wanted to be a teacher. She eventually gave in and got her first role in 1956 in a short film by Rene Vautier , Anneaux d’or . It was in 1958 that she appeared on the big screen in Le Pigeon . She then toured for Mauro Bolognini in Le Bel Antonio and for Luchino Visconti for Rocco and His Brothers , with whom she collaborated again for Le Pard and Violence et Passion .

In 1961, she really got noticed by the French public with Cartouche alongside Jean-Paul Belmondo (whom she found again in La Scoumoune in 1972). The same year, she toured with Henri Verneuil in Les Lions sont lâchés (before reuniting with him in 1991 for Mayrig and 588, rue Paradis ). From then on, the status of the artist only increased over the years.

The international success of The Pink Panther in 1963 brought her to the forefront. She then collaborated with the greatest: Federico Fellini ( Eight and a Half in 1963), Henry Hathaway ( The Greatest Circus in the World in 1964), or even Richard Brooks ( The Professionals in 1966) and Sergio Leone ( Once Upon a Time in the West , two years later). In 1971, she starred in Les Pétroleuses alongside Brigitte Bardot . At the end of the seventies, Claudia Cardinale alternated filming in Italy (many of which under the direction of her husband, producer Pasquale Squitieri ) and major international productions.

The 80s confirmed his status as a world star. In La Peau (1981), she reunites with an old acquaintance she met in Eight and a Half : Marcello Mastroianni . The following year, she played in Werner Herzog ‘s Fitzcarraldo as well as in The Ruffian (1982), an adventure film with Lino Ventura. The prestige of the actress continues to be confirmed with a tribute from the Cinémathèque française and the official presentation of the medal of Commander of Arts and Letters in 1992, as well as a Golden Lion for her entire career to Venice the following year.

Towards the end of the 90s, Claudia Cardinale toured less but did not abandon cinema. She thus agrees to play in And now, Ladies and Gentlemen by Claude Lelouch . In 2002, she received a second tribute for her entire career at the Berlin Festival. Since then, his appearances on screen have become rarer. After the comedy Seeking fiancé all expenses paid by Aline Issermann alongside Alexandra Lamy and Bruno Salomone in 2007, we find her in 2010 in Le Fil , a drama by Mehdi Ben Attia which allows her to return to the country of her childhood: Tunisia. She played a bourgeois Catholic married to a Muslim in the 1960s. After these few roles, Claudia Cardinale found a new rhythm of filming: she played Jean Dujardin

‘s mother in the drama Un balcon sur la mer (2010) directed by Nicole Garcia . Always looking for new collaborations despite her long career, she met two other cinema legends by playing opposite Michael Lonsdale and Jeanne Moreau in the centenary film Manoel de Oliveira , Gebo and the Shadow (2012). From film to film, the actress likes to travel through the eras. In The Artist and His Model , it is that of occupied France in the 1940s that she finds, notably alongside Jean Rochefort .