Christine Kaufmann

About

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)....

Known for

SOKO MünchenSeries • 1978DerrickSeries • 1974Für alle Fälle StefanieSeries • 1995The CommissionerSeries • 1969BalkoSeries • 1995Stubbe – Von Fall zu FallSeries • 1995A Houseful of AnimalsSeries • 2010World on a WireSeries • 1973Bagdad CafeMovie • 1987LolaMovie • 1981Toto, Fabrizi and the Young People TodayMovie • 1960Murders in the Rue MorgueMovie • 1971Taras BulbaMovie • 1962Lili MarleenMovie • 1981Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry FinnMovie • 2014The Last Days of PompeiiMovie • 1959Hard to Be a GodMovie • 1990Constantine and the CrossMovie • 1961Rings of FearMovie • 1978Girls in UniformMovie • 1958Town Without PityMovie • 1961A Man Named RoccaMovie • 1961The Death of Maria MalibranMovie • 1972