Claudia Cardinale, star of '8½,' dies at 87
AFP is reporting that acclaimed Italian actor Claudia Cardinale, who starred in some of the most celebrated European films of the 1960s and 1970s, has died
FILE - Italian actress Claudia Cardinale appears at the Prix Lumieres awards ceremony in Paris on Jan. 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Zacharie Scheurer, File)
NEMOURS, France (AP) — 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.
She starred in more than 100 films and made-for-television productions, but she was best known for embodying youthful purity in Federico Fellini’s “8½,” in which she co-starred with Marcello Mastroianni in 1963.
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.
FILE - Italian actress Claudia Cardinale appears in Rome on Dec. 13, 1966. (AP Photo/Mario Torrisi, File)
FILE - Italian actress Claudia Cardinale appears in Rome on Dec. 13, 1966. (AP Photo/Mario Torrisi, File)
FILE - Actress Claudia Cardinale appears in 1965. (AP Photo, File)
FILE - Italian actress Claudia Cardinale attends a press conference during the 2nd Budapest Classic Film Marathon in Budapest, Hungary on Sept. 6, 2018. (Tibor Illyes/MTI via AP, File)
