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Acclaimed Italian actor Claudia Cardinale, who starred in some of the most celebrated European films of the 1960s and 1970s, has died, AFP reported Tuesday. She was 87.<\/h2>\n
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Acclaimed Italian actor Claudia Cardinale, who starred in some of the most celebrated European films of the 1960s and 1970s, has died, AFP reported Tuesday. She was 87.<\/p>\n

She starred in more than 100 films and made-for-television productions, but she was best known for embodying youthful purity in Federico Fellini\u2019s \u201c8\u00bd,” in which she co-starred with Marcello Mastroianni<\/a> in 1963.<\/p>\n

Cardinale also won praise for her role as Angelica Sedara in Luchino Visconti\u2019s award-winning screen adaption of the historical novel \u201cThe Leopard” that same year and a reformed prostitute in Sergio Leone\u2019s spaghetti western \u201cOnce Upon a Time in the West” in 1968.<\/p>\n

She died in Nemours, France, surrounded by her children, her agent Laurent Savry told AFP. Savry and his agency did not immediately return emailed requests for comment from The Associated Press.<\/p>\n

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Cardinale began her movie-career at the age of 17 after winning a beauty contest in Tunisia, where she was born of Sicilian parents who had emigrated to North Africa. The contest brought her to the Venice Film Festival, where she came to the attention of the Italian movie industry.<\/p>\n

Before entering the beauty contest she had expected to become a school teacher.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact I\u2019m making movies is just an accident,” Cardinale recalled while accepting a lifetime achievement award at the Berlin Film Festival in 2002. \u201cWhen they asked me, \u2018Do you want to be in the movies?\u2019 I said no and they insisted for six months.”<\/p>\n

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Claudia Cardinale in \u201cThe Leopard” from 1963. \u2013 20thCentury Fox\/Everett Collection<\/p>\n

Her success came in the wake of Sophia Loren\u2019s international stardom and she was touted as Italy\u2019s answer to Brigitte Bardot. While never achieving the level of success of the French actor, Cardinale nonetheless was considered a star and worked with the leading directors in Europe and Hollywood.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey gave me everything,” she once said. \u201cIt\u2019s marvelous to live so many lives. I\u2019ve been living more than 150 lives, totally different women.”<\/p>\n

One of her earliest roles was as a black-clad Sicilian girl in the 1958 comedy classic \u201cBig Deal on Madonna Street.” It was produced by Franco Cristaldi, who managed her early career and to whom she was married from 1966 to 1975.<\/p>\n

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The sensuous brunette with enormous eyes was often cast as a hot-blooded woman. As she had a deep voice and spoke Italian with a heavy French accent, her voice was dubbed in her early movies.<\/p>\n

Her career in Hollywood brought only partial success because she was not interested in giving up European film. Nonetheless, she achieved some fame by teaming with Rock Hudson in the 1965 comedy thriller \u201cBlindfold” and another comedy, \u201cDon\u2019t Make Waves” with Tony Curtis, two years later.<\/p>\n

Cardinale herself considered the 1966 \u201cThe Professionals,” directed by Richard Brooks, as the best of her Hollywood films, where she starred alongside Burt Lancaster, Jack Palance, Robert Ryan and Lee Marvin.<\/p>\n

In a 2002 interview with the Guardian, she explained that the Hollywood studio \u201cwanted me to sign a contract of exclusivity, and I refused. Because I\u2019m a European actress and I was going there for movies.”<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I had a big opportunity with Richard Brooks, \u2018The Professionals,\u2019 which is really a magnificent movie,” she said. \u201cFor me \u2018The Professionals\u2019 is the best I did in Hollywood.”<\/p>\n

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Claudia Cardinale congratulates Giorgio Armani after he received the \u201cBAMBI 1998″ media award in November 1998. \u2013 Ralph Orlowski\/Reuters<\/p>\n

Among her industry prizes was a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement that she received at the Venice Film Festival nearly 40 years after her initial appearance on screen.<\/p>\n

In 2000, Cardinale was named a goodwill ambassador for the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization for the defense of women\u2019s rights.<\/p>\n

She had two children. One with Cristaldi and a second with her later companion, Italian director Pasquale Squitieri.<\/p>\n

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