Claudia Cardinale, an actress who brought an earthy and at times ethereal allure to 1960s world cinema, starring in films as varied as Federico Fellini’s dreamscape masterpiece “8½” and Blake Edwards’s slapstick comedy “The Pink Panther,” died Tuesday in Nemours, France, outside Paris. She was 87.

Her agent, Laurent Savry, confirmed the death to the Agence France-Presse. Information on the cause was not immediately available.

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