Christopher Lee Early Life, Personal Life, Relationship, Marriage, Net Worth and Death

Christopher Lee was famous for being a British actor with a deep rich voice and a towering presence. Lee is popular for playing Count Dracula in a sequence of Hammer Horror films. At the 2010 Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards ceremony, he was honored with the “Heart of Metal” award.

In addition, Christoper portrayed many other varied characters on screen, while most of the roles were villains. Wanna know more about the talented British Actor? Stay on the page and keep on scrolling.

Early Life

Christoper Lee was born Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee on May 27, 1922, in Belgravia, London, England. He was the son of Lieutenant Colonel Geoffrey Trollope Lee of the 60th King’s Royal Rifle Corps and his wife, Countess Estelle Marine. Also, he had one sibling named Xandra Carandini Lee.

When Lee was four years old, his parents separated and divorced two years later. At that time, his mother took him and his sister to Wengen in Switzerland. After that, he enrolled in Miss Fisher’s Academy in Territet, where he played his first role as Rumpelstiltskin.

Then after some years, they moved back to London, and Lee began to attend Wagner’s private school in Queen’s Gate. During that time, his mother married Harcourt George St-Croix Rose, a banker and uncle of Ian Fleming, who was an author of the James bond novels. After his mother’s marriage, the family moved to Fulham, living next door to the actor Eric Maturin.

When Lee turned nine, he was sent to Summer Fields School, a preparatory school in Oxford whose pupils often later attended Eton. Later,  he attended Wellington College for his higher education.

Personal Life

Lee was married to his long-time girlfriend turned wife, Birgit Kroncke Lee. Christoper and Birgit met in 1960. The couple was introduced by one of his friends, Danish, who was a painter. Soon after the meeting, the couple was engaged, and after a year, they got married on March 17, 1961.

The couple shares one daughter named Christina Erika Carandini Lee from their long marriage span. Furthermore, Christina was born in 1963, two years after the marriage of Christoper and Birgit. Prior, Lee was engaged to Henriette Von Rosen, whom he met at a nightclub in Stockholm in 1950. During that time, the two fell in love, and a few years later, the couple was married.

However, Henriette’s father, Count Fritz von Rosen, proved demanding to get them to delay the wedding for a year. Unfortunately, the ex-couple called off their engagement later.

Death

On June 7, 2015, Lee passed away at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital at 92. He died from respiratory problems and heart failure. But his wife delayed the public announcement until June 11 to break the news to their family. And shortly after Lee’s death, the family also called his 93rd birthday to honor his memories.

During Lee’s death, his fans, friends, actor, directors, and others involved in the film industry publicly gave their tributes. Even the Prime Minister of the Uk, David Cameron, called Christoper a ‘titan of the golden age of cinema.’ Moreover,  Christoper was also honored by the Academy on the occasion of their 88th Academy Awards on February 28, 2016, in the annual In Memoriam section.

Although he is no longer among us, many fans always miss him for his extraordinary acting in his movies.

Net Worth

As we all know that Sir Christoper Lee was a renowed British actor, singer, and author. He has collected a massive amount of money from his career. According to celebritynetworth.com, Lee had a net worth of $25 million until he was alive. He was popular for playing the roles of villains in many popular and profitable movies.

Among all the movies he played, his notable roles included Saruman in The Lord of the Rings trilogy and Count Dooku in the final two films of the Star Wars prequel trilogy. In his early, he even served in the Army during World War Two.