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Nastassja Kinski
Nastassja Kinski in 2009
BornNastassja Aglaia Nakszyński
(1961-01-24) 24 January 1961 (age 63)
Berlin, Germany
Occupationactress
Years active1975–present
SpouseIbrahim Moussa (1984–1992)

Nastassja Kinski (born 24 January 1961) is a German-born American-based actress who has appeared in more than 60 films. Her starring roles include her Golden Globe Award-winning portrayal of the title character in Tess and her roles in two erotic films (Stay As You Are and Cat People), as well as parts in Wim Wenders' films The Wrong Move; Paris, Texas; and Faraway, So Close!. Richard Avedon's photo of her, nude with a large python, was marketed as a poster.

Early life

Born in Berlin as Nastassja Aglaia Nakszyński, Kinski is the daughter of the German actor Klaus Kinski from his marriage to actress Ruth Brigitte Tocki, thus making her half sister to Pola and Nikolai Kinski. Her parents divorced in 1968. Kinski rarely saw her father after the age of 10. Kinski and her mother struggled financially. They eventually lived in a commune in Munich.

Career

Her career began in Germany as a model. After this the German New Wave actress Lisa Kreuzer placed her in the role of the dumb Mignon in Wim Wenders' film The Wrong Move. In 1976 she had her first major role in the feature length film and Wolfgang Petersen directed episode Reifezeugnis of the German TV crime series Tatort. Also in 1976, in her mid-teens, she starred in the British Hammer Film Productions' horror film To the Devil a Daughter (1976). She has stated that, as a child, she felt exploited by the industry and told a journalist from W Magazine, "If I had had somebody to protect me or if I had felt more secure about myself, I would not have accepted certain things. Nudity things. And inside it was just tearing me apart."

Kinski starred in Stay As You Are (1978) with Marcello Mastroianni. New Line Cinema released it in the United States in December 1979, helping Kinski to get more recognition there. Time magazine said: "Kinski is simply ravishing, genuinely sexy and high-spirited without being painfully aggressive about it." Director Roman Polanski urged Kinski to study acting with Lee Strasberg in the United States and cast her in his film, Tess (1979). In 1981, photographer Richard Avedon photographed Kinski with a Burmese python coiled around her naked body.

In 1982, she appeared in One from the Heart, and Cat People, and then Unfaithfully Yours, and The Hotel New Hampshire. Paris, Texas won awards at Cannes, however, the film was not widely released in the United States. Kinski then split her time between Europe and the United States, making Moon in the Gutter (1983), Harem (1985) and Torrents of Spring (1989) in Europe and Exposed (1983), Maria’s Lovers (1984) and Revolution (1985) in the U.S. Kinski's luck turned in the 1990s when she appeared in films such as Terminal Velocity opposite Charlie Sheen, and Mike Figgis' One Night Stand.

Nastassja Kinski in 1989

In One From the Heart, director Francis Ford Coppola brought Kinski to the U.S. to act as a "Felliniesque circus performer to represent the twinkling evanescence of Eros. . . Kinski has one great moment in the film, when she seductively curls up in a giant neon-rimmed martini glass. . ." The film failed at the box office and was a major loss for Coppola's new studio, Zoetrope Studios. Other appearances include Somebody Is Waiting (1996), Your Friends & Neighbors (1998), John Landis' Susan's Plan (1998), The Lost Son (1999), and Inland Empire (2006).

Personal life

In 1976, Kinski began a romantic relationship with Roman Polanski, when she was 15 years old and he was 43.

In the mid-1980s, Kinski met Egyptian filmmaker Ibrahim Moussa. They married on September 10, 1984. They raised her son (by actor Vincent Spano), Aljosha (born 1984) and daughter, Sonja Kinski, now a model (born 1986). The marriage was dissolved in 1992. From 1992 until 1995, Kinski lived with musician Quincy Jones. In 1993, their daughter, Kenya Julia Miambi Sarah Jones, was born.

Kinski reportedly speaks German, French, English, Italian and Russian fluently.

Selected filmography

Kinski at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival.

References

  1. John Sandford (ed) (2001) Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture (Routledge world reference): 340
  2. ^ "Der Spiegel report on Kinski". Spiegel.de. 15 March 1961. Retrieved 18 April 2010.
  3. "Daddy's Girl". London: Guardian. 3 July 1999. Retrieved 18 April 2010.
  4. Nastassja Kinski interview with Louise Farr. "Kinski Business", W magazine, May 1997.
  5. By HP-Time.com;R.S. Monday, 21 January 1980 (21 January 1980). "Cinema: Bedrock Taboo". TIME. Retrieved 18 April 2010.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  6. Coppola, Francis Ford; Phillips, Gene D.; Hill, Rodney. Francis Ford Coppola: Interviews, Univ. Press of Mississippi, (2004) p. 136
  7. Texas Monthly, March 1982 p. 175
  8. Lester, Peter (13 April 1981). "After 'Tess' and Roman Polanski, Nastassia Kinski Trades Notoriety for L.A. Propriety". Time Magazine.
  9. Curtis, Bryan (3 October 2009). "Roman's Holiday Where has Polanski been hiding?". Slate Magazine. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  10. Gumbel, Andrew (1 March 2003). "Roman Polanski: Cinema's demonic chronicler of the Holocaust". London: The Independent.
  11. Goodwin, Christopher (13 April 2008). "Wanted and Desired: a film that has shone new light on a murky affair". London: TimesOnline UK.
  12. Sandford, Christopher (25 August 2007). "The dark secrets of Roman Polanski". The Los Angeles Times.
  13. Docherty, Cameron (26 September 1997). "Nastassja Kinski: Still a daddy's girl". London: Independent.co.uk. Retrieved 25 May 2010.

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