Christine Kaufmann
Born: 1945-01-11 in Lengdorf, Styria, Austria
Died: 2017-03-28
Known For: Acting
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Christine Kaufmann, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2023
- Feuerblume - Die zwei Leben der Marisa Mell as Self (archive footage)
2015
- Die Geschichte eines Abends as Self
2014
- Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn as Aunt Polly
2012
- Einfach Kathi - Resch & Lieblich as Self
- Heiter bis tödlich - Fuchs und Gans as Diana Bootz
- Was glaubt as Self
- Privat bei … as Self
- Drei Wünsche frei mit Inka Bause as Self
2011
- Fahr zur Hölle as Lilith
2010
- A Houseful of Animals as Frau von Werther
- Im Gespräch mit Teddy Podgorski as Self
2008
- Markus Lanz as Self
- Ein Abend für.. as Self
- Liebesticket nach Hause as Marianne Forster
- Romy Schneider: A Woman in Three Notes as Self
2007
- Willkommen Österreich as Self
- Die Kocharena as Self
2006
- Das perfekte Promi-Dinner as Self
- Die ProSieben Märchenstunde as Tante Hortensie
- Filmlegenden. Deutsch as Self
2005
- Dancing Stars as Self
2003
- Club der Träume - Türkei, Marmaris as Adlaya
2002
- Haider lebt - 1. April 2021 as Newssprecherin
2000
- Abendschau as self
- Menschen der Woche as Self
- Koschwitz as Self
- Alles Liebe V.I.P. as Self
- Höllische Nachbarn - Nur Frauen sind schlimmer as Ingelore Merk
1999
- Volle Kanne as Self
- Beckmann as Self
1998
- Alpha Forum as Self
- Höllische Nachbarn as Ingelore Merk
- Caipiranha - Vorsicht, bissiger Nachbar! as Karin Wolters
- Die Schläfer as Stationsleiterin
1997
- Tietjen und Bommes as Self
- The German Bronx as Frau Duenser
- Parkhotel Stern as Oksana Olejewa
1996
- Zimmer frei! as Self
- Ein flotter Dreier
1995
- Für alle Fälle Stefanie as Frau von Drossel
- Balko as Frederike Kogel
- Stubbe – Von Fall zu Fall as Frau Jensen
- A.S. Gefahr ist sein Geschäft as Nadja Seewald
- Weihnachten mit Willy Wuff II - Eine Mama für Lieschen as Gräfin
1994
- alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio as Self
- Im Namen des Gesetzes as Frau Meyer-Arndt
- Weihnachten mit Willy Wuff as Countess
- The Knickerbocker Gang: The Talking Grave as Annie Kramer
- Birkenhof & Lerchenau as Theres
1993
- Liebe ist Privatsache
- Mission of Love as Valery
- Das Double as Jutta Eck
1992
- Riverboat as Self
- Glückliche Reise as Felicitas von Feilitz
1991
- DAS! as Self
1990
- Wenn das die Nachbarn wüßten as Kaufhausdirektorin
- Hard to Be a God as Okana
- Russian Adventure. Peter Fleischmann is Filming "Hard to Be a God" as Self
1989
- ZDF-Mittagsmagazin as Self
- The Story Teller as Clara Lilienthal
1988
- Julius Caesar as Portia
1987
- Nachtcafé as Self
- Seitenblicke as self
- Bagdad Cafe as Debby
- Die Insel as Margit
- Harald und Eddi
1986
- Showgeschichten as Self
- Ein heikler Fall
1984
- Kronen Könner Kavaliere as Self
1983
- Monaco Franze as Olga Behrens
- Pankow ’95 as Laura Zart
- The Swing as Mme. Lautenschlag
- The Roaring Fifties as Natascha
- The Gold of Love as Patricias Mutter
- Ziemlich weit weg as Christel
- Inflation im Paradies as Laverne Schuhmann (segment "Testschock")
1982
- Wortwechsel as Self
- The Excluded as Ms. Pachthofen
1981
- Wetten, dass..? as Self
- Lola as Susi
- Die Laurents
- Lili Marleen as Miriam
- Day of the Idiots as Ruth
1980
- Egon Schiele: Excess and Punishment as Edith Harms-Schiele
1979
- NDR Talk Show as Self
- Le Comte de Monte-Cristo as Hermine Danglars
- Der ganz normale Wahnsinn as Violetta
- Joséphine, ou la comédie des ambitions as Mme Hosten-Lamothe
1978
- SOKO München as Margit Finneisen
- Rings of Fear as Christina, Di Salvo's girlfriend
- Das Männerquartett as Nina Huf
- Die Ängste des Dr. Schenk
1977
- Please Turn the Page as Self
1976
- Kölner Treff as Self
- Gold Flakes
- Blackmail Chase as Sekretärin
1975
- Lockruf des Goldes as Labiskwee
- Joan's Dream
- Bent or Broken
1974
- Derrick as Marion Kless
- 3 nach 9 as Self
- Die Fälle des Herrn Konstantin as Gisela Pahl
- Zum Abschied Chrysanthemen
1973
- World on a Wire as Party Guest
- Je später der Abend as Self
- Willow Springs as Christine
- Immobilien as Jasmin Strothmann
1971
- Dalli Dalli as Self
- Murders in the Rue Morgue as Madeleine Charron
- Gestrickte Spuren as Fanny Elßler
1970
- Wie ein Blitz as Diana Valesco
- Bend Sinister as Mariette
1969
- The Commissioner as Eva Raßner
- Love Birds as La Contessa
1967
1964
- Wild and Wonderful as Giselle Ponchon
1962
- Taras Bulba as Natalia Dubrov
- Escape from East Berlin as Erika Jürgens
- The Swordsman of Siena as Serenella Arconti
- 90 Minuten nach Mitternacht as Julie Elgin
1961
- Constantine and the Cross as Livia
- A Man Named Rocca as Geneviève Adé
- Town Without Pity as Karin Steinhof
- Via Mala as Sylvia Lauretz
- Toller Hecht auf krummer Tour as Inge
1960
- Toto, Fabrizi and the Young People Today as Gabriella Cocozza
- Red Lips as Baby
- The Last Pedestrian as Christine Cornelius
- Un trono para Cristy as Christine Wilkens
1959
- Stars in the Ring as Self
- The Last Days of Pompeii as Elena / Ione
- First Love as Silvia
- Alle lieben Peter as Kitty Steiner
- Winter Holidays as Florence
1958
- Girls in Uniform as Mia
- Die singenden Engel von Tirol as Evi Kramer
- Embezzled Heaven as Doris
1957
- Witwer mit 5 Töchtern as Ulla Scherzer
- Die Winzerin von Langenlois as Christel
1956
- Ein Herz schlägt für Erika as Erika Kayser
- Die Stimme der Sehnsucht as Eva
1955
- Wenn die Alpenrosen blüh'n as Christine
1954
- Salto Mortale as Dascha
- Rosen-Resli as Resli
- Der schweigende Engel as Angelika Helmer
1953
- Der Klosterjäger as Vronerl
- Staatsanwältin Corda as Berta Neidhart
1952
- The White Horse Inn as Child