Circa 15 April 1938 Claudia Cardinale was born in La Goulette, Tunisia to Sicilian emigrant parents. In 1957 she won “Most Beautiful Italian Girl in Tunisia,” earning a trip to Venice and a film offer. Her breakthrough came in 1958’s Big Deal on Madonna Street in Rome. By 1963 she starred in 8½ (Rome) and The Leopard (Sicily). She worked with Fellini, Visconti, Leone from Paris to Milan. She secretly bore a son, Patrick, in London in 1958 after personal trauma. She died 23 September 2025 in Nemo