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 ga...
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.
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Movies (Cast)
Taras Bulba
Rosen-Resli
Lili Marleen
The Excluded
Lola
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Egon Schiele: Excess and Punishment
Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn
Bagdad Cafe
Stille
Höllische Nachbarn
Der schweigende Engel
Girls in Uniform
Der Klosterjäger
Winter Holidays
Toto, Fabrizi and the Young People Today
The Swing
Haider lebt - 1. April 2021
The Swordsman of Siena
Gold Flakes
Witwer mit fünf Töchtern
The White Horse Inn
Die wilden Fünfziger
Constantine and the Cross
Caipiranha - Vorsicht, bissiger Nachbar!
Die Winzerin von Langenlois
Embezzled Heaven
Alle lieben Peter
Wild and Wonderful
Fahr zur Hölle
Die singenden Engel von Tirol
Weihnachten mit Willy Wuff
Day of the Idiots
The Last Days of Pompeii
First Love
A Man Named Rocca
Love Birds
The Last Pedestrian
Escape from East Berlin
Hard to Be a God
Willow Springs
The Death of Maria Malibran
Wenn die Alpenrosen blüh'n
Liebesticket nach Hause
Ein Herz schlägt für Erika
Rings of Fear
The Knickerbocker Gang: The Talking Grave
Town Without Pity
The Gold of Love
Weihnachten mit Willy Wuff II - Eine Mama für Lieschen