Claudia Cardinale Overview:

Actress, Claudia Cardinale, was born Claude Joséphine Rose Cardinale on Apr 15, 1938 in Tunis, French Protectorate Tunisia [now Tunisia]. As of December 2025, Claudia Cardinale was 87 years old.

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: The Facts of Murder (1959) and Bell’Antonio (1960)

By 4 Star Film Fan on Jan 22, 2026 From 4 Star Films

With the passing of in 2025, I took it upon myself to watch some of her movies that I had not seen before. Below, I included capsule reviews of two of her earlier performances: At first, I wasn’t sure what to expect from the picture. I thought it might be a comedia italiana o... Read full article


Girl with a Suitcase (1961): Shines

By 4 Star Film Fan on Dec 29, 2021 From 4 Star Films

It’s a slippery slope when you begin to consider the attractiveness of women in films because the conversation can get needlessly superficial. All I will say about is that God was very good to her. But beyond her immaculate beauty, the joyous discovery of Girl with a Suitcase... Read full article


Sex symbol of the 1960s: .

By Dawn on Jun 3, 2011 From Noir and Chick Flicks

(born 15 April 1938), is an Italian Tunisian actress, and performed in the better known European films of the 1960s and 1970s. In 1957, Cardinale won the 'Most Beautiful Italian Girl in Tunisia' contest of the Italian embassy, which brought her to the Venice Film Festival. Her fi... Read full article


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Claudia Cardinale Quotes:

Jill: You wake up one morning and say "World, I know you! From now on there are no more surprises!".


Angelica Sedara: Listen to me. Concetta is right. To marry him after loving you would be like drinking water after tasting...
[They kiss]
Tancredi Falconeri: Tasting what?
Angelica Sedara: Marsala.
[They kiss again]


Claudia: I don't understand. He meets a girl that can give him a new life and he pushes her away?
Guido: Because he no longer believes in it.
Claudia: Because he doesn't know how to love.
Guido: Because it isn't true that a woman can change a man.
Claudia: Because he doesn't know how to love.
Guido: And above all because I don't feel like telling another pile of lies.
Claudia: Because he doesn't know how to love.


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Claudia Cardinale Facts
1957: At the Italian Embassy in Tunis, she was voted the most beautiful Italian girl in Tunisia. Her prize was a trip to Venice during the Venice Film Festival. After the festival, she was offered movie roles, however she initially refused them and returned to Tunis. Six months later, a producer sold her on a career in movies, and she went to Rome with her parents, two brothers and sister, taking a home in Castel Giubileo, a small town outside the city.

She has two children: Patrizio, who was born out of wedlock (tjh father was a mysterious Frenchman) when she was 17 and later adopted by her former husband Franco Cristaldi; and Claudia, whose biological father is her longtime companion Pasquale Squitieri.

Long considered one of the world's great beauties, she has appeared on more than 900 magazine covers in over 25 countries.

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