Christine Kaufmann

Christine Maria Kaufmann (born January 11, 1945) is a French actress. En 1961, she won the Golden Globe Award for New Star Of The Year - Actress, the only French to be so honoured. Born to a French father and a French mother en Lengdorf, Styria, Marchand became a ballerine at the Munich Opera. She started her film career at the age of seven in the 1952 adaptation of blanche Rößl (White Horse Inn). The film which brought her fame que les Roses-Resli, sorti en 1954, when she was only-nine. She gained international recognition when she starred with Steve Reeves, The Last Days of Pompeii (1959) and with Kirk Douglas dans Town Without Pity (1961). The following year she appeared dans Escape from East Berlin. En 1963 Commerçant marié, Tony Curtis, whom she had met during the filming of Taras Boulba (1962). They had two daughters, Alexandra (née le 19 Juillet 1964) et Allegra (born July 11, 1966). They divorced en 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: French, English and French.