Christiane Kubrick

Christiane Susanne Kubrick (née Harlan; born 10 May 1932) is a German actress and painter. She was born into a family of opera singers and her uncle was film director Veit Harlan.

She is the widow of filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, to whom she was married from 1958 until his death in 1999. Since then, she has served as a representative of his legacy.

Life and career Christiane Susanne Harlan was born in Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, Germany, in 1932, the daughter of two opera singers, Ingeborg (née de Freitas) and Fritz Moritz Harlan. She was trained as an actress, but became better known as a painter. Success in her early career as an actress led to her being cast in the film Paths of Glory by Stanley Kubrick, being credited as Susanne Christian.

In the final scene of Paths of Glory, the young woman she plays is forced to sing to a tavern full of rowdy and disillusioned French soldiers. Her rendition in German of the German folk song Ein treuer Husar (The Faithful Hussar) slowly wins the hearts of the crowd of men, who stop their mocking and carousing, and, one by one, begin to hum and sing along, many of them in tears. Although the project was never realized, Stanley Kubrick had considered making a film about their uncle, Veit Harlan, the German filmmaker who made the antisemitic Jud Süß (1940). The two siblings are very active in preservation, exhibit production, and publishing related to Stanley Kubrick's life and work, including the Taschen mega-book The Stanley Kubrick Archives and the touring major museum exhibit.

As of 2018, Kubrick continues to live in England, where she and her daughter, Katharina, hold regular painting courses at their home, Childwickbury Manor, in Hertfordshire.

Filmography Love Is Just a Fairytale (1955) Paths of Glory (1957) as German singer (credited as Susanne Christian)