Italian actress Claudia Cardinale has died at 87, following a decades-long film career that spanned both Hollywood and Europe. Cardinale died with her children present this Tuesday in the commune of Nemours near Paris, her agent Laurent Savry told AFP. 'At first, Franco Cristaldi was furious and tried to block us professionally, because he was powerful and controlled the entire Italian film industry,' Cardinale noted later. Cardinale continued acting into her final years, playing a crime boss in Netflix' 2020 French drama Rogue City about an anti-gang police unit in Marseille. Along with Patrick, who took Cristaldi's surname, Cardinale had a daughter called Claudia with Squitieri, whom she never married despite their decades together.