Christiane Kubrick

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Christiane Kubrick (* 10. May 1932 in Braunschweig as Christiane Susanne Harlan ) is a German painter and actress .

Life

Christiane Kubrick is the daughter of the opera singers Fritz Moritz Harlan (1901–1970) and Ingeborg Harlan (nee de Freitas). Her uncle is the German director Veit Harlan . In 1952 she married the actor Werner Bruhns in her first marriage . Their daughter Katharina (* 1953) also became an actress.

After training in dance and acting as well as studying art in Los Angeles , New York and London , she was cast under her stage name Susanne Christian in 1955 for supporting roles in three German film productions.

She first became known to an international audience through her role as the German singer in the famous final scene in Stanley Kubrick's film Paths to Fame . While filming, she met Stanley Kubrick. She got divorced and the two married in 1957. With him she had daughters Anya (1959–2009) and Vivian (* 1960).

The wedding with Stanley Kubrick in fact largely marked the end of her acting career. Artistically, however, she continues to work as a painter. She has contributed paintings to the films A Clockwork Orange and Eyes Wide Shut , among others . After Stanley Kubrick's death in 1999, she worked  as his estate administrator - together with her brother Jan Harlan .

In the documentary Stanley Kubrick - A Life for the Film from 2001 and the Mockumentary Kubrick, Nixon and the Man in the Moon from 2002, Christiane Kubrick is interviewed.

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SURNAME Kubrick, Christiane
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Harlan, Christiane Susanne (maiden name); Christian, Susanne (stage name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and actress
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig