Actress Claudia Cardinale died at the age of 87

The actress Claudia Cardinale is dead. The film diva died on Tuesday at the age of 87 with its children in the French city of Nemours near Paris, as her agent Laurent Savry announced to the AFP news agency. The French-Italian actress, born in Tunis, played in more than 150 international films; It was considered a muse of filmmakers such as Luchino Visconti and Federico Fellini and the cinema icon of the 1960s.

“She leaves us the legacy of a free and inspired woman – as a woman as well as as an artist,” Savry wrote in a message to AFP.

Claudia Cardinale was born on April 15, 1938 in La Goulette at Tunis as the daughter of a French woman and a Sicilian. At the age of 17 she was elected “most beautiful Italian of Tunis” and won a trip to the film festival in Venice. There she attracted the attention of several directors.

The best -known directors of Italy tore themselves around “Die Cardinale”, Visconti and Fellini made them their muse. Visconti shot “Rocco and his brothers” and “The Leopard” with her in the early 1960s. With her performance in Sergio Leones Western classic “Play me the song of death” from 1969, Cardinale went down in film history. The public in the USA delighted the Italian with films such as “The Rosarote Panther” and “Circus World”.

Overall, the actress played with the smoky voice in more than 150 films. For her life’s work in 1993 she was awarded the Golden Lion in Venice and in 2002 in Berlin with the Golden Bear.

Note: This article has been updated.