About the Claudia Cardinale

Claude Josephine Rose Cardinalewith Tony Curtis, The Hell with Heroesand as a prostitute alongside Alberto Sordi in A Girl in Australiaand Claretta (1984), the last of which won her the Nastro d’Argento Award for Best Actress. In 1982, she starred in Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo as the love interest of Klaus Kinski, who raises the funds to buy a steamship in Peru. In 2010, Cardinale received the Best Actress Award at the 47th Antalya “Golden Orange” International Film Festival for her performance as an elderly Italian woman who takes in a young Turkish exchange student in Signora Enrica.

Outspoken on women’s rights causes over the years, Cardinale has been a UNESCO goodwill ambassador for the Defence of Women’s Rights since March 2000. In February 2011, the Los Angeles Times Magazine named Cardinale among the 50 most beautiful women in film history.

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