Lualdi was born in Beirut on July 6, 1931, and became highly popular in the 1950s and ‘60s when she starred in many Italian and French films.
She worked with the Ettore Scola and Vittorio Gassman in several of them.
She won widespread acclaim for her performance in Claude Autant-Lara’s 1954 film The Red and the Black opposite Gérard Philipe.
In 1979 she appeared in an Italian edition of Playboy.
Lualdi in Barcelona. (Photo: AAP)
In 2018 she published her autobiography, entitled Antonella loved by Franco, in reference to her husband whom she married in 1955.
Franco passed away in 2015, and a heartbroken Lualdi claimed writing the autobiography helped her heal from the depression she felt afterwards.
Lualdi with her husband Franco Interlenghi at the tennis. (Photo: AAP)
In his article published on ANSA, Giorgio Gosetti wrote:
Antonella Lualdi, queen of Italian cinema: a witty and dynamic woman, curious and never a prisoner of the past, a sensitive actress ahead of her time. From the screen she gazes fixedly at you, and in her eyes flow the images of an Italy that discovers itself - after the rubble of war - at the centre of a new season, full of promise, tempered by pain, open to “many dreams in the streets”.
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