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Acclaimed Italian actress Claudia Cardinale has died at the age of 87.<\/p>\n
She starred in some of the most celebrated European films and made-for-television productions of the 1960s and 1970s, and was best known for her role in Federico Fellini’s 8\u00bd, in which she co-starred with Marcello Mastroianni in 1963.<\/p>\n
Cardinale also won praise for her role as Angelica Sedara in Luchino Visconti’s award-winning screen adaptation of the historical novel The Leopard that same year, and a reformed prostitute in Sergio Leone’s spaghetti western Once Upon a Time in the West in 1968.<\/p>\n
Cardinale began her film career at the age of 17 after winning a beauty contest in her birth country, Tunisia, where she was born to Sicilian parents who had emigrated there.<\/p>\n
The contest brought her to the Venice Film Festival, where she came to the attention of the Italian movie industry.<\/p>\n
“The fact I’m making movies is just an accident,” Cardinale recalled while accepting a lifetime achievement award at the Berlin Film Festival in 2002.<\/p>\n
“When they asked me, ‘Do you want to be in the movies?’ I said no, and they insisted for six months.”<\/p>\n
Her success came in the wake of Sophia Loren’s international stardom, and she was touted as Italy’s answer to Brigitte Bardot.<\/p>\n
Cardinale died in Nemours, France, surrounded by her children, her agent Laurent Savry told AFP.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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