1 of 4 | Claudia Cardinale seen in May 2007 arrived at the Palais des Festivals for the gala screening of "Chacun Son Cinema" at the 60th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France. She died Tuesday in France surrounded by her two children. File Photo by Christine Chew. | License Photo
Sept. 24 (UPI) -- Famed Italian actress and UNESCO goodwill ambassador Claudia Cardinale died this week surrounded by family three short years of her 90th birthday.
She died Tuesday in France at Nemours in the presence of her children, according to Cardinale's agent Laurent Savry.
No cause of death was given.
Savry added she "leaves us the legacy of a free and inspired woman both as a woman and as an artist."
