Name: Claudia

Surname: Cardinal



Claudia Cardinale, born Claude Joséphine Rose Cardinale (Tunis, 15 April 1938), is an Italian actress. Counted among the most authoritative and significant interpreters in the history of cinema and considered the most important Italian actress to emerge in the sixties[1], she was the only one to achieve international notoriety comparable to that of Sophia Loren and Gina Lollobrigida, both acting part of the previous generation of actresses who emerged in the 1950s. The international press often called her the most beautiful woman in the world during that decade. During her long career, which began in the mid-1950s, and lasted more than sixty years, she acted in a wide range of film genres: from Italian comedy to spaghetti westerns, from dramatic films to historical ones up to Hollywood-style films, also working occasionally in music, theater and television. You have participated in more than 150 films, some of which are considered milestones of great auteur cinema. Her «beauty that is simultaneously sunny and nocturnal, delicate and incisive, enigmatic and disturbing» was used and valorized by the major authors and filmmakers of the golden age of 20th century Italian cinema. We particularly remember his interpretations for: Mario Monicelli (I soliti ignoti), Luchino Visconti (Il Gattopardo, Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa...), Federico Fellini (8½), Mauro Bolognini (Il bell'Antonio, La viaccia, Senility, Libera, my love!), Valerio Zurlini (The girl with the suitcase), Luigi Comencini (Bube's girl), Sergio Leone (Once upon a time in the West), Luigi Zampa (Handsome, honest, emigrant Australia would marry compaesana illibata), Luigi Magni (In the Year of the Lord) and Damiano Damiani (The Day of the Owl), and on the foreign side it was directed by directors of great artistic caliber such as Blake Edwards, Werner Herzog and Manoel de Oliveira. In February 2011, the US newspaper Los Angeles Times named her among the 50 most beautiful women in the history of cinema of all time. Overseas he achieved great public success, receiving numerous acclaim from critics, contributing to the diffusion of the seventh art and alongside some of the most acclaimed international actors: John Wayne, Sean Connery, William Holden, Henry Fonda, Eli Wallach, Orson Welles, Peter Finch, Anthony Quinn, Jack Palance, David Niven, Laurence Olivier, Jason Robards and many more. Like other actresses of her own generation, she embodied a new female model, an emancipated, strong-willed and combative woman, who wants to be free and independent, asserts ownership of herself and aspires to an equal role in emotional and professional relationships. . She has obtained multiple prizes and recognitions for her performances: in 1984 she won the Pasinetti Award for best actress at the 42nd Venice International Film Festival for Claretta, she also won five David di Donatello, five Nastri d'argento, three Globi d'Argento, 'gold, and a golden Grolla for best actress. In the international context, she was awarded for her cinematographic career, the Golden Lion for her career at the Venice Film Festival, the Golden Bear for her career at the Berlin Film Festival, the Lumière Prize and numerous other awards (between competitive and honorary).

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