Biography for
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Date of Birth

11 January 1945, Lengdorf, Styria, Austria

Birth Name

Christine Maria Kaufmann

Height

5' 4" (1.63 m)

Spouse

Klaus Zey	(1997 - present)
Reno Eckstein	(1979 - ?) (divorced)
Tony Curtis	(8 February 1963 - 1967) (divorced) 2 children
Achim Lenz	(? - 1982) (divorced)

Trivia

Mother of German actresses Allegra Curtis and Alexandra Curtis.

Began dating Tony Curtis when she was 17. They met on the set of Taras Bulba (1962)

Children with Tony Curtis: Alexandra Theodora Dido (19 July 1964); Allegra (12 July 1966)

Her father, Johannes, was a German air force officer. Her mother, Genevieve Gavaert, was a French doctor who gave up her practice to further Christine's career.

Turned down the title role of Lolita (1962)

Her older brother, Gunther, formed a company with Tony Curtis to sell European film location pictures to the world press while Curtis was dating Christine.

Has her own line of cosmetics which she sells on a German Home Shopping network

Is good friends with actress Candice Bergen

Is fluent in German, English and French.

After posing nude for "Playboy" magazine at the age of 54 in 1999, she was called "Germany's most beautiful grandmother".

Resides in Hamburg and Munich.

Ex-stepmother of Jamie Lee Curtis and Kelly Curtis.