Overview

• Her death was confirmed by agent Laurent Savry to AFP and by Italy’s culture minister Alessandro Giuli, with her management calling her “a free and inspired woman.”
• She died Tuesday, 23 September 2025 in Nemours near Paris with her children present, and no cause was disclosed.
• The Tunis-born French–Italian star appeared in more than 150 films and was a muse to Luchino Visconti and Federico Fellini.
• Notable credits include 8½, The Leopard, Once Upon a Time in the West and The Pink Panther.
• She received lifetime honors including Venice’s Golden Lion (1993) and Berlin’s Golden Bear (2002) and later became a UNESCO ambassador advocating for women’s rights, supporting #MeToo and Time’s Up.