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Christine Kaufmann

Christine Kaufmann

Actor · Born 1945-01-11 · Lengdorf, Styria, Austria

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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.…

Movies & TV Shows

  1. Bagdad Cafe (1987) — Debby
  2. Lola (1981) — Susi
  3. Lili Marleen (1981) — Miriam
  4. Taras Bulba (1962) — Natalia Dubrov
  5. World on a Wire (1973) — Party Guest
  6. Toto, Fabrizi and the Young People Today (1960) — Gabriella Cocozza
  7. Girls in Uniform (1958) — Mia
  8. The Last Days of Pompeii (1959) — Elena / Ione
  9. Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971) — Madeleine Charron
  10. Hard to Be a God (1990) — Okana
  11. Derrick (1974) — Marion Kless
  12. Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn (2014) — Aunt Polly
  13. Rings of Fear (1978) — Christina, Di Salvo's girlfriend
  14. Town Without Pity (1961) — Karin Steinhof
  15. The Death of Maria Malibran (1972)
  16. A Man Named Rocca (1961) — Geneviève Adé
  17. Constantine and the Cross (1961) — Livia
  18. Wetten, dass..? (1981) — Self
  19. Egon Schiele: Excess and Punishment (1980) — Edith Harms-Schiele
  20. Escape from East Berlin (1962) — Erika Jürgens
  21. Witwer mit 5 Töchtern (1957) — Ulla Scherzer
  22. The Last Pedestrian (1960) — Christine Cornelius
  23. Le Comte de Monte-Cristo (1979) — Hermine Danglars
  24. Markus Lanz (2008) — Self
  25. Day of the Idiots (1981) — Ruth
  26. Winter Holidays (1959) — Florence
  27. Monaco Franze (1983) — Olga Behrens
  28. Zimmer frei! (1996) — Self
  29. The Excluded (1982) — Ms. Pachthofen
  30. The Commissioner (1969) — Eva Raßner
  31. Willow Springs (1973) — Christine
  32. Gold Flakes (1976)
  33. The White Horse Inn (1952) — Child
  34. SOKO München (1978) — Margit Finneisen
  35. Volle Kanne (1999) — Self
  36. Höllische Nachbarn (1998) — Ingelore Merk
  37. The Swing (1983) — Mme. Lautenschlag
  38. The Knickerbocker Gang: The Talking Grave (1994) — Annie Kramer
  39. Balko (1995) — Frederike Kogel
  40. Lockruf des Goldes (1975) — Labiskwee