Christine Kaufmann

Known for ActingBorn 1945-01-11Died 2017-03-28Lengdorf, Styria, Austria

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Romy Schneider: A Woman in Three Notes

The German Bronx

Parkhotel Stern

Liebe ist Privatsache

Glückliche Reise

Wenn das die Nachbarn wüßten

Inflation im Paradies

Pankow ’95

Die Ängste des Dr. Schenk

Immobilien

Red Lips

Die Stimme der Sehnsucht

Dalli Dalli

Club der Träume - Türkei, Marmaris

Höllische Nachbarn - Nur Frauen sind schlimmer

Die Schläfer

Tietjen und Bommes

Ein flotter Dreier

Das Double

Ein heikler Fall

Die Laurents

Der ganz normale Wahnsinn

Blackmail Chase

Bent or Broken

Zum Abschied Chrysanthemen

Tender Sharks

Via Mala

Weihnachten mit Willy Wuff II - Eine Mama für Lieschen

A Houseful of Animals

Gold Flakes

Filmlegenden. Deutsch

Rosen-Resli

A.S. Gefahr ist sein Geschäft

Birkenhof & Lerchenau

Monaco Franze

The Story Teller

Seitenblicke

Die ProSieben Märchenstunde

Joan's Dream

The Commissioner

Salto Mortale

Der schweigende Engel

Lockruf des Goldes

The Gold of Love

Im Namen des Gesetzes

Bagdad Cafe

Ein Herz schlägt für Erika

Staatsanwältin Corda