Variety<\/a>\u00a0in 2017. \u201cAfter that my mother and my sister stayed close to me. I gave birth in London, because in those days it would have been a scandal.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cWe pretended that my son was my little brother. I didn\u2019t want to become an actress; I did it so I could be independent,\u201d Cardinale added.<\/p>\n
Claudia Cardinale and her husband, Franco Cristaldi, at a movie premiere in Italy in March 1970. Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images<\/p>\n
Claudia Cardinale with her son, Patrick, in Rome in April 1967. AP<\/p>\n
Cardinale\u2019s first movie under the Vides deal was the 1958 Italian heist film \u201cBig Deal on Madonna Street,\u201d directed by Mario Monicelli.<\/p>\n
Her career blew up in the 1960s with roles in \u201cAusterlitz,\u201d \u201c8\u00bd,\u201d \u201cThe Leopard,\u201d \u201cThe Pink Panther,\u201d \u201cCircus World,\u201d \u201cThe Professionals,\u201d \u201cOnce Upon a Time in the West,\u201d and more.<\/p>\n
Actress Claudia Cardinale appears in 1965. AP<\/p>\n
Claudia Cardinale, David Niven in 1963\u2019s \u201cThe Pink Panther.\u201d Everett Collection<\/p>\n
Claudia Cardinale in 1963\u2019s \u201c8\u00bd.\u201d Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n
In her 2017 Variety interview, Cardinale recalled how she filmed \u201cThe Leopard\u201d and \u201c8\u00bd\u201d at the same time.<\/p>\n
\u201cLuchino wanted me dark-haired and Federico wanted me blonde-ish, so I had to change hair color every two weeks,\u201d she explained. \u201cIt was a magic moment for me. They were very different directors. Being on set with Luchino was like being in the theater; we had rehearsals and all that. With Federico there was no script, it was all improvised. Those two movies both really took my career to another level.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Cardinale worked in the movie industry for six more decades, notably appearing in 1993\u2019s \u201cSon of the Pink Panther\u201d and 2014\u2019s \u201cEffie Gray.\u201d<\/p>\n
Italian actress Claudia Cardinale attends a press conference during the 2nd Budapest Classic Film Marathon in Budapest, Hungary on Sept. 6, 2018. AP<\/p>\n
Claudia Cardinale in \u201cOnce Upon a Time in the West.\u201d Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n
Peter Sellers, Claudia Cardinale in \u201cThe Pink Panther.\u201d Everett Collection \/ Everett Collection<\/p>\n
Her final film was Ridha Behi\u2019s 2022 Italian-Tunisian drama\u00a0\u201cThe Island of Forgiveness.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Cardinale\u2019s awards included an honorary Golden Lion at the 1993 Venice Film Festival, and an honorary Golden Bear at the 2002 Berlin Film Festival.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you want to practice this craft, you have to have inner strength,\u201d she shared in\u00a0a 2014 interview.<\/a>\u00a0\u201cOtherwise, you\u2019ll lose your idea of who you are.\u201d<\/p>\nCardinale is survived by her two children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Claudia Cardinale, the Italian actress best known for her roles in \u201cThe Pink Panther,\u201d \u201cOnce Upon a Time…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[1508,236,26522,88,6801,35646,10756],"class_list":["post-178775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-celebrities","tag-deaths","tag-entertainment","tag-italy","tag-obits","tag-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}