Italian actor Claudia Cardinale, best known for starring in some of the biggest European films of the 1960s and 1970s, has died, her agent said Wednesday. She was 87.

Cardinale died in Nemours, France, surrounded by her children, her agent Laurent Savry told The Associated Press.

Cardinale starred in more than 100 films and made-for-television productions, but she was best known for embodying youthful purity in Federico Fellini’s "8½," in which she co-starred with Marcello Mastroianni in 1963. Cardinale also won praise for her role as Angelica Sedara in Luchino Visconti’s award-winning screen adaption of the historical novel "The Leopard" that same year and a reformed prostitute in Sergio Leone’s spaghetti western "Once Upon a Time in the West" in 1968.

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