Christine Zierl (born July 12, 1962, in Munich, originally Christina Giannakopoulos) is a German actress. She became known under the stage name Dolly Dollar but has used her birth name again since the early 21st century to distance herself from her former image as a sex symbol.
After training at the Roleff Kingie ballet school and the Gernot Heindl acting school in Munich, she was discovered by producer Karl Spiehs for comedies such as Cola, Candy, Chocolate and appeared in films by director Klaus Lemke, including Arabische Nächte and Flitterwochen. She appeared as Dolly in the second episode of the TV series Monaco Franze, Die italienische Angelegenheit. She mainly acted in light film and TV comedies before also performing in dramatic roles as a character actress. In 1992, she appeared in the Tatort episode Experiment alongside Manfred Krug and Charles Brauer. Occasionally, she worked as a theater actress and took part in the Karl May Games in Bad Segeberg in 2001 in a dramatization of Der Schatz im Silbersee. In the early 1980s, she tried singing and released the LPs Come a Little Bit Closer and I mog koa Bier. In 1985, she opened her own venue, Dollys Treff, in Munich. She was married to actor Helmut Zierl until 2001 and has two sons with him, as well as a son named Alessio from an earlier relationship.
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