Famed Italian actress and UNESCO goodwill ambassador Claudia Cardinale died this week surrounded by family three short years of her 90th birthday.
Sept. 24 Famed Italian actress and UNESCO goodwill ambassador Claudia Cardinale died this week surrounded by family three short years of her 90th birthday.
She died Tuesday in France at Nemours in the presence of her children, according to Cardinale’s agent Laurent Savry.
No cause of death was given.
Savry added she « leaves us the legacy of a free and inspired woman both as a woman and as an artist. »
Cardinale, born April 1938 in Tunisia at the very tip of north Africa to Sicilian parents, by age 16 won her first beauty contest and was later declared the « most beautiful woman » in Tunisia’s capital city Tunis.
