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Her mother Yolande Greco, also born in Tunisia, had parents who were Sicilian emigrants from Trapani [6] who had a small shipbuilding firm in Trapani. They later settled in La Goulette, which had a large Italian community. Her native languages were French, Tunisian Arabic, and the Sicilian language of her parents.
Cardinale’s son, Patrick, grew up with Cardinale’s parents. She revealed the truth to him much later. In 1966, while she was working on her Hollywood films in the US, Cristaldi joined her.
However, six months later, a producer sold her on a career in movies, and she went to Rome with her parents, two brothers and a sister, taking a home in Castel Giubileo, a small town outside the city (1957).
- April 15, 1938
Her parents were Italians, but she was born in Tunisia, where the spouses Cardinale moved in search of a better place to live. Tunisia at the time was a French colony so French is Claudia’s native language.
Feb 15, 2019 · Though her parents were Italian, she was born and grew up in Tunisia, then a protectorate of France. “My first language was French,” Cardinale said. So when she tried to speak Italian, her ...
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She was born in the port town of La Goulette, Tunisia, some 10 km from the capital Tunis, to second generation of Sicilian parents. At the time Tunisia was a French protectorate and Cardinale’s mother tongue became French; till around the age of 18 she couldn’t even speak Italian.
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Jul 20, 2015 · Born in 1939 in Tunisia, Claudia’s parents were Italian. Her education was French and she didn’t grow up speaking Italian. When she was very young, however, she won a beauty contest and the prize was a trip to the Venice Film Festival.
