At the age of 87, Claudia Cardinale, a celebrated Italian actress best known for her parts in The Leopard and 8½, passed away. She died on Tuesday at her home in Nemours, France, with her children by her side, according to her agent Laurent Savry, who spoke to French news agency AFP.

Claudia Cardinale passed away

Cardinale appeared in almost 100 motion pictures and television shows, but her most well-known performance was in Federico Fellini’s 8½, where she costarred with Marcello Mastroianni in 1963.

Leading woman of Italian cinema in the 1960s, Claudia Cardinale was hailed as Italy’s “dream girl” by filmmakers Luchino Visconti, Sergio Leone, and Federico Fellini for her sensuous beauty.

She passed away in Nemours, France. She was eighty-seven. Laurent Savry, her agent, told Agence France-Presse on Tuesday that she had died. There was no report of the cause. In recent years, Ms. Cardinale had resided in Nemours, which is located south of Paris.

Who is Claudia Cardinale?

Over her six-decade career in Europe, Ms. Cardinale starred in over 150 films. She also starred in other Hollywood productions, such as the beloved comedy “The Pink Panther” by Blake Edwards.

On April 15, 1938, she was born Claude Joséphine Rose Cardin in La Goulette, Tunisia, to a French mother and a Sicilian father. In 1957, Cardinale was crowned the most attractive Italian woman in Tunis after winning a beauty pageant at the age of 17.

She attended the Venice Film Festival thanks to the competition, which aided in the beginning of her film career.

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