Acclaimed Italian actress Claudia Cardinale, who starred in some of the most celebrated European films of the 1960s and 1970s, has died at the age of 87. The contest brought her to the Venice Film Festival, where she came to the attention of the Italian movie industry. “The fact I’m making movies is just an accident,” Cardinale recalled while accepting a lifetime achievement award at the Berlin Film Festival in 2002. Her career in Hollywood brought only partial success because she was not interested in giving up European film. Among her industry prizes was a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement that she received at the Venice film festival nearly 40 years after her initial appearance on screen.