Claudia Cardinale was touted as Italy's answer to Brigitte Bardot. Photo: AP PHOTO

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.

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She starred in more than 100 films and made-for-television productions, but she was best known for embodying youthful purity in Federico Fellini's 8½, in which she co-starred with Marcello Mastroianni in 1963.

Cardinale also won praise for her role as Angelica Sedara in Luchino Visconti's award-winning screen adaption of the historical novel The Leo

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