As per our current Database, Christine Kaufmann has been died on 28 March 2017(2017-03-28) (aged 72)\nMunich, Germany.
When Christine Kaufmann die, Christine Kaufmann was 72 years old.
| Popular As | Christine Kaufmann |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Age | 72 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Aquarius |
| Born | January 11, 1945 ( Lengdorf, Styria, Austria, Austria) |
| Birthday | January 11 |
| Town/City | Lengdorf, Styria, Austria, Austria |
| Nationality | Austria |
Christine Kaufmann’s zodiac sign is Aquarius. According to astrologers, the presence of Aries always marks the beginning of something energetic and turbulent. They are continuously looking for dynamic, speed and competition, always being the first in everything - from work to social gatherings. Thanks to its ruling planet Mars and the fact it belongs to the element of Fire (just like Leo and Sagittarius), Aries is one of the most active zodiac signs. It is in their nature to take action, sometimes before they think about it well.
Christine Kaufmann was born in the Year of the Rooster. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Rooster are practical, resourceful, observant, analytical, straightforward, trusting, honest, perfectionists, neat and conservative. Compatible with Ox or Snake.
Growing up in Munich, Bavaria, Kaufmann became a ballerina at the Munich Opera. She began her film career at the age of seven in The White Horse Inn (1952) and appeared as a lead Actress in Der Schweigende Engel the same year, but gained big attention with Rose-Girl Resli in 1954. She achived 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 (1962).
At age 18 in 1963, Kaufmann married Tony Curtis, whom she had met during the filming of Taras Bulba (also 1962). They had two daughters, Alexandra (born 19 July 1964) and Allegra (born 11 July 1966). The couple divorced in 1968. Kaufmann married three more times: television Director Achim Lenz (1974–76), musician and actor Reno Eckstein (1979-1982) and Illustrator Klaus Zey (1997-2011). On German television, Kaufmann admitted to having an affair with Warren Beatty.
Kaufmannn resumed her career, which she had interrupted during her marriage, after her divorce with Tony Curtis, notably with supporting roles in the Rainer Werner Fassbinder films Lili Marleen and Lola. She often worked with German Director Helmut Dietl, for Example in the satirical television series Monaco Franze – Der ewige Stenz. In 1987, she played a glamerous tattoo Artist in the cult classic Bagdad Cafe, an offbeat comedy set in a desolate truck stop cafe and motel in the Mojave Desert. Her last role was Aunt Polly in the American film Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn (2014), co-starring Jake T. Austin and Val Kilmer.
Kaufmann enjoyed travelling. She moved from one place to another frequently—a pattern that she believed she had inherited from her Circassian forefathers. She spoke three languages: German, English, and French.
Kaufmann died on 28 March 2017 in Munich from with leukaemia at the age of 72. She was only diagnosed with leukemia a few days before her death.
