Christa Lang-Fuller (23 December 1943 â 30 January 2026) was a German-American film and television actress and screenwriter. Lang worked frequently with her husband, director Samuel Fuller, and is known for such films as White Dog, Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street, What's Up, Doc?, Land of Plenty, No Fear, No Die, Alphaville, The Big Red One, Nickelodeon and Thieves After Dark.
Christa Lang was born in Winterberg on 23 December 1943. At age 17, Lang moved to France, working in Paris as an au pair and a translator for a textile firm while studying acting.
Lang made her film debut in the French new wave film The Murderer Knows the Score (1963), and had an uncredited walk-on role in Alphaville (1965). In 1967, she had a supporting part in The Champagne Murders opposite Anthony Perkins, followed by a supporting role in What's Up, Doc? (1972) opposite Barbra Streisand. In 1976, she appeared as Anna Hauptmann in The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case, based on the Lindbergh kidnapping.
She would go on to appear in her husband, Samuel Fuller's film White Dog (1982). In 1981, Lang co-founded Chrisam Films with Fuller. She also appeared in the French film Thieves After Dark (1984), and The Blood of Others (1984), opposite Jodie Foster and Sam Neill.
As a screenwriter, Lang is perhaps best known as the co-writer, with her husband, of the 1994 film Girls in Prison.
Lang was married to director Samuel Fuller from 1967 until his death in 1997. They had one daughter. She died at her home in Los Angeles, on 30 January 2026, at the age of 82.