A very dolce vita: Claudia Cardinale in pictures

Claudia Cardinale dances barefoot on a roof terrace in Rome in 1959. Photograph: Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

'I was speaking English with Lancaster, French with Delon and Italian with the others' … Cardinale with Alain Delon in The Leopard, 1963, directed by Visconti. Photograph: BFI

Cardinale in the 1960s. Photograph: Pierluigi / Rex Features

'For me, cinema is a dream' … Cardinale, in 1959. Photograph: Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Early success … After 8½ and The Leopard came Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West, in 1968. Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive

'With Federico, everybody was shouting, on the telephone, like a circus. Only like this could he be creative. If there was silence, he couldn't create' … Claudia Cardinale in Fellini's 8 1/2 Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext/Embassy

Brigitte Bardot and Cardinale in a scene from Les Petroleuses (The Legend of Frenchie King), in 1971, directed by Christian-Jaque. Photograph: SIPA / Rex Features

Cardinale in Sinyora Enrica ile Italyan Olmak (Being Italian with Signora Enrica), from 2010, directed by Ali Ilhan, which is showing at the London Turkish film festival Photograph: PR

Claudia Cardinale receives a career achievement Pardo award (the Pardo alla Carriera) during the 64th festival del Film di Locarno on 12 August in Switzerland. Photograph: Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images

'You are not yourself in front of the camera. You can live many lives, instead of one. I think I've been lucky' … Cardinale in London in November 2011. Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian