Claudia Cardinale

Born in Tunisia, she won a beauty contest in 1957 that came with a trip to Italy and producer Franco Cristaldi, who became her mentor and later husband. By 1960 she was in Visconti's Rocco and His Brothers; by 1963 she had Fellini's 8½ and Visconti's The Leopard behind her. Hollywood called — The Pink Panther, The Professionals, Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West — but she walked away from it, jaded, and returned to Italian and French work. She won the David di Donatello twice, the Nastro d'Argento for Claretta, and spent decades with director Pasquale Squitieri. In 1982 she was the dreamer…