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 RosenResli 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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