Christine Kaufmann
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1945-01-11
Day of Death
2017-03-28 (72 years old)
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.
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Acting
(2023)
Fireflower: The Two Lives of Marisa Mell
as Self (archive footage)
(2014)
Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn
as Aunt Polly
(2013)
Stille
as Adele Vio
(2011)
Fahr zur Hölle
as Lilith
(2008)
(2008)
Liebesticket nach Hause
as Marianne Forster
(2003)
Club der Träume - Türkei, Marmaris
as Adlaya
(2002)
Haider lebt - 1. April 2021
as Newssprecherin
(2000)
Höllische Nachbarn - Nur Frauen sind schlimmer
as Ingelore Merk
(1998)
Die Schläfer
as Stationsleiterin
(1998)
Caipiranha - Vorsicht, bissiger Nachbar!
as Karin Wolters
(1998)
Höllische Nachbarn
as Ingelore Merk
(1995)
(1994)
Weihnachten mit Willy Wuff
as Countess
(1994)
The Knickerbocker Gang: The Talking Grave
as Annie Kramer
(1994)
Birkenhof & Lerchenau
as Theres
(1993)
Das Double
as Jutta Eck
(1990)
Hard to Be a God
as Okana
(1990)
(1989)
The Story Teller
as Clara Lilienthal
(1988)
Julius Caesar
as Portia
(1987)
Bagdad Cafe
as Debby
(1983)
Die wilden Fünfziger
as Natascha
(1983)
The Swing
as Mme. Lautenschlag
(1983)
The Gold of Love
as Patricias Mutter
(1983)
Inflation im Paradies
as Laverne Schuhmann (segment "Testschock")
(1983)
(1983)
Pankow ’95
as Laura Zart
(1982)
The Excluded
as Ms. Pachthofen
(1981)
Lola
as Susi
(1981)
Lili Marleen
as Miriam
(1981)
Day of the Idiots
as Ruth
(1980)
Egon Schiele: Excess and Punishment
as Edith Harms-Schiele
(1978)
Rings of Fear
as Christina, Di Salvo's girlfriend
(1978)
Das Männerquartett
as Nina Huf
(1978)
(1976)
(1976)
Blackmail Chase
as Sekretärin
(1975)
(1975)
(1974)
(1973)
Immobilien
as Jasmin Strothmann
(1973)
Willow Springs
as Christine
(1972)
(1971)
Murders in the Rue Morgue
as Madeleine Charron
(1971)
Gestrickte Spuren
as Fanny Elßler
(1970)
Bend Sinister
as Mariette
(1969)
Love Birds
as La Contessa
(1967)
(1964)
Wild and Wonderful
as Giselle Ponchon
(1962)
Taras Bulba
as Natalia Dubrov
(1962)
The Swordsman of Siena
as Serenella Arconti
(1962)
Escape from East Berlin
as Erika Jürgens
(1962)
90 Minuten nach Mitternacht
as Julie Elgin
(1961)
Constantine and the Cross
as Livia
(1961)
Town Without Pity
as Karin Steinhof
(1961)
Via Mala
as Sylvia Lauretz
(1961)
A Man Named Rocca
as Geneviève Adé
(1961)
(1960)
Toto, Fabrizi and the Young People Today
as Gabriella Cocozza
(1960)
The Last Pedestrian
as Christine Cornelius
(1960)
Un trono para Cristy
as Christine Wilkens
(1960)
Red Lips
as Baby
(1959)
The Last Days of Pompeii
as Elena / Ione
(1959)
First Love
as Silvia
(1959)
Alle lieben Peter
as Kitty Steiner
(1959)
Winter Holidays
as Florence
(1958)
Girls in Uniform
as Mia
(1958)
Embezzled Heaven
as Doris
(1958)
Die singenden Engel von Tirol
as Evi Kramer
(1957)
Witwer mit fünf Töchtern
as Ulla Scherzer
(1957)
Die Winzerin von Langenlois
as Christel
(1956)
Die Stimme der Sehnsucht
as Eva
(1956)
Ein Herz schlägt für Erika
as Erika Kayser
(1955)
Wenn die Alpenrosen blüh'n
as Christine
(1954)
Rosen-Resli
as Resli
(1954)
Salto Mortale
as Dascha
(1954)
Der schweigende Engel
as Angelika Helmer
(1953)
Der Klosterjäger
as Vronerl
(1953)
Staatsanwältin Corda
as Berta Neidhart
(1952)
The White Horse Inn
as Child