Christine Kaufmann (Actor)

Reviews of Christine Kaufmann Movies

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Movies starring Christine Kaufmann have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 64%.

Lola - released in 1981 - is Christine Kaufmann's highest rated movie, with a score of 78% based on 42 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Christine Kaufmann is Murders in the Rue Morgue - released in 1971 - with a score of 43% based on 7 reviews.

Actor 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 The white Rößl (White Horse Inn). The film which brought her fame 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.

Christine Kaufmann has acted in films with Udo Kier, Hark Bohm, Karin Baal and Hugues Quester.

Christine Kaufmann has worked with these film directors: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, J. Lee Thompson, Mario Mattoli and Gottfried Reinhardt.