
Known for
Acting
Born
January 11, 1945
Birthplace
Lengdorf, Styria, Austria
Died
March 28, 2017 (aged 72)
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 E...
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as Self (archive footage)
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as Aunt Polly
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as Adele Vio
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as Lilith
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as Marianne Forster
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as Adlaya
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as Newssprecherin