The Italian actress Claudia Cardinale has died at the age of 87. Often described in the 1960s by the press as “the most beautiful woman in the world”, she died on 23 September.
She was "the most important Italian film actress to emerge in the Swinging Sixties, the golden age of Italian cinema", reports the Daily Telegraph.
Cardinale was born on 15 April 1938, in La Goulette, near Tunis, the capital of Tunisia, which had a large Italian community, the two countries being a couple of hours' boat ride apart – her grandparents had come from Sicily to Tunisia at the beginning of the 20th century.
