Claudia Cardinale (born 15 April 1938) is a Tunisian-born Italian actress of Sicilian parentage who appeared in some of the most prominent European films of the 1960s and 1970s. Notable credits include Luchino Visconti’s Rocco and His Brothers (1960) and The Leopard (1963), Philippe de Broca’s Cartouche (1963), Federico Fellini’s 8½ (1963), and Sergio Leone’s epic Once Upon a Time in the West (1968). The majority of Cardinale’s films have been either Italian or French.