Italian actress and star of The Pink Panther dies aged 87

The Italian star Claudia Cardinale, who was born in Tunisia, died at the age of 87 and Pink Panther at the age of 87.

Italian cinema had a six -year career rising to fame in the golden age and was ruled by elders like Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti.

According to her agent Laurent Savry, actress died in Nemours in France.

“He leaves the legacy of a free and inspiring woman as a woman and artist,” AFP said to the AFP news agency.

Cardinale, who was born to Sicilian parents in Tunisia in April 1938, won a beauty contest seeing that he declared the “most beautiful Italian woman in Tunisia”.

The award was a trip to the Venice Film Festival and approached the filmmaking by managers and producers.

Later, in his father’s words, he explained his reluctance to abandon his hopes to be a teacher to “give this cinema thing a chance”.

His early career was marked with difficulties. When he was raped, he took small roles as young. When he found out that he was pregnant, a mentor convinced him to give him secretly in London abroad. For several years, he introduced his son Patrick to people as his younger brother.

The French, Arabic and his family grew up while speaking the Sicilian dialect, and his accent was unacceptable, and his voice was named by other Italian actors.

In 1963, Fellini’s Oscar award -winning 8 1/2 and the Visconti Classic epic period drama The Leopard fame.

Visconti asked me for a long -haired brunette.

He worked in Hollywood in the 1960s, appearing with actors, including Henry Fonda and Charles Bonson, once played by Blake Edwards’ The Pink Panther and Sergio Leone once in the West.

Critics praised him as “concretization of post -war European charm.”

Later, Cardinale, reflected in his career, said, “The best compliment I’ve ever received came from the actor David Niven while shooting Pink Panther.

“He said: ‘Claudia, together with Spaghetti, you are the greatest invention in Italy.’ ‘

After leaving filmmaker Franco Cristaldi in the early 70s, he began a lifetime relationship with Napolitan Pasquale Squitieri, a daughter named Claudia.

In 2020, he took the stage in his 80s in Swiss TV series Bulle.

In 2000, Cardinale was named as UNESCO Goodwill ambassador to recognize women’s rights advocacy.

In 2002, he won a lifetime success at the Berlin Film Festival.

“I have lived more than 150 life: prostitutes, saint, romantic, all kinds of women and this opportunity to change yourself,” he said.

Italy’s Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli called him “one of the greatest Italian actresses of all time,” concretizing “Italian grace”.