Claudia Cardinale

Claudia Cardinale was born Claude Joséphine Rose Cardinale in La Goulette, a neighborhood of Tunis, Tunisia.
Her mother, Yolande Greco, was born in Tunisia to Sicilian emigrants from Trapani.
Her father was a Sicilian railway worker, born in Gela.
Her native languages were French, Tunisian Arabic, and the Sicilian language of her parents.
She did not learn to speak Italian until she had already begun to be cast for Italian films.