Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1945-01-11
Day of Death
2017-03-28
Place of Birth
Lengdorf, Styria, Austria
Christine Kaufmann
Biography
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. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Christine Kaufmann, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography (81)
Feuerblume - Die zwei Leben der Marisa Mell
2023
Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn
2014
Stille
2013
Fahr zur Hölle
2011
Liebesticket nach Hause
2008
Romy Schneider: A Woman in Three Notes
2008Club der Träume - Türkei, Marmaris
2003
Haider lebt - 1. April 2021
2002Höllische Nachbarn - Nur Frauen sind schlimmer
2000Die Schläfer
1998Höllische Nachbarn
1998
Caipiranha - Vorsicht, bissiger Nachbar!
1998
Weihnachten mit Willy Wuff II - Eine Mama für Lieschen
1995
Weihnachten mit Willy Wuff
1994
