Italian actress and star of The Pink Panther dies aged 87

Claudia Cardinal, Italian star born in the Tunisian, 8/2 and Pink Panther, died at the age of 87.

She had a six -decade long career, rising to fame during the golden age of Italian cinema, and was removed by greats like Philiprico Felini Luchino Veskonte.

The actress in Nimors died in France with her children, according to her agent, Laurent Safri.

“She leaves us the legacy of a free and inspiring woman as a woman and a shroud.”

Cardinal was born in Tunisia for the Sicilian parents in April 1938, in the beauty competition in 16 she witnessed her declared “the most beautiful Italian woman in Tunisia.”

The award was a trip to the Venice Film Festival, where directors and producers approached her to participate in the film industry.

She later described her hesitation to give up her hopes to become a teacher “to give this cinema something”, as her father said.

Her early professional life was distinguished by challenges. She was taking small roles when she was a teenager when she was raped by a man she did not know.

When she learned that she was pregnant in the seven months of months while filming, her guide persuaded her to give birth abroad in London.

For several years, her son, Patrick, came to people like her younger brother. The French newspaper Le Monde told 2017 that it was the cause of her cinematic career, because she wanted to “gain a living and independence.”

Because she grew up speaking French, Arabic and the dialect of her Sicilian parents, she was looking at her dialect as unacceptable, and her voice was called by other Italian actors.

Fame was shot in 1963 when it appeared in Velinini Award 8/2 And the drama of the epic tiger period, which has become classic Visconti.

While filming at one time, Cardinal crossed Sicily and Rome, and she had had to dye her hair once a week.

Cardinal said: “Veskontity wanted brunette with long hair. Wilini wanted me a blonde,” Cardinal said.

She worked in Hollywood in the 1960s, and starred in Blake Edwards, “The Pink Pank prose and Sergio Leon once in the West, and appears with actors including Henry Fonda and Charles Bronson.

During her time in the United States, Cardinal talked about pretending to be in a relationship with actor Rock Hudson to try to preserve his sexual secret.

“At that time in America if it is known that you are gay, you could not work in Hollywood,” she said to Variety in 2017.

Critics praised it as “an embodiment of European magic after the war.”

Cardinal recalls: “The best courtesy I got from the actor David Nevin while filming the pink tiger,” Cardinal recalls.

He said: “Claudia, alongside Spaghetti, you are the greatest invention of Italy. “

After separating from the film producer, Franco Crystaldi in the early 1970s, a lifelong relationship with the director of Napoli Pascuel Sakaire, with whom she was a daughter, also called Claudia as well.

She performed a performance in her eighties, as she appeared in the Swiss TV series Bolly in 2020.

In 2000, Cardinal was appointed by UNESCO Ambassador, in appreciation of her invitation to women’s rights.

In 2002, she got a lifetime achievement at the Berlin Film Festival.

She said: “I have lived more than 150 people: a prostitute, a saint, romantic, every type of women, and this is great for me to have this opportunity to change yourself.”

Italy Culture Minister Alessandro Jolie described her as “one of the greatest Italian actresses in all ages”, which embodies “Italian grace”.