Christine Kaufmann
Actor
- Born
- January 11, 1945 · Lengdorf, Styria, Austria
- Died
- March 28, 2017 (age 72)
Christine Maria Kaufmann (born January 11, 1945) is a German actress. In 1961 she won the Golden Globe Award for New Star Of The Year - Actress, the only German to be so honoured.
Born to a German father and a French mother in Lengdorf, Styria, Kaufmann became a ballerina at the Munich Opera. She started her film career at the age of seven in the 1952 adaptation of Im weißen Rößl (White Horse Inn). The film which brought her fame was Rosen-Resli, released in 1954, when she was only nine. She gained international recognition when she starred with Steve Reeves in The Last Days of Pompeii (1959) and with Kirk Douglas in Town Without Pity (1961). The following year she appeared in Escape from East Berlin.
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In 1963 Kaufmann married Tony Curtis, whom she had met during the filming of Taras Bulba (1962). They had two daughters, Alexandra (born July 19, 1964) and Allegra (born July 11, 1966). They divorced in 1968. Kaufmann resumed her career, which she had interrupted during her marriage.
Kaufmann is also a successful businesswoman, promoting her own cosmetics products line that sells well in Germany. She has written several books about beauty and health, as well as two autobiographies. She speaks three languages: German, English, and French.
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Known for
Bagdad Cafe
November 12, 1987
Lola
August 20, 1981
Lili Marleen
January 14, 1981
Taras Bulba
November 21, 1962
Toto, Fabrizi and the Young People Today
August 18, 1960
Girls in Uniform
July 7, 1958
The Last Days of Pompeii
November 12, 1959
Murders in the Rue Morgue
July 21, 1971
Hard to Be a God
January 25, 1990
Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn
October 23, 2014
Rings of Fear
August 19, 1978
Town Without Pity
October 10, 1961
Acting81
- 2023Feuerblume - Die zwei Leben der Marisa Mell as Self (archive footage)
- 2014Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn as Aunt Polly
- 2013Stille as Adele Vio
- 2011Fahr zur Hölle as Lilith
- 2008Liebesticket nach Hause as Marianne Forster
- 2008Romy Schneider: A Woman in Three Notes as Self
- 2003Club der Träume - Türkei, Marmaris as Adlaya
- 2002Haider lebt - 1. April 2021 as Newssprecherin
- 2000Höllische Nachbarn - Nur Frauen sind schlimmer as Ingelore Merk
- 1998