Information about Nastassja Kinski

Nastassja Kinski
Nastassja Kinski in Exposed (1983)
Birth name	Nastassja Aglaia Nakszynski
Born	January 24 1961 (1961--) (age 46) Berlin, Germany
Died
Spouse(s)	Ibrahim Moussa (1984 - 1992)
Awards

Nastassja Kinski (born Nastassja Aglaia Nakszynski, January 24, 1961) is a prolific German actress, having appeared in more than 60 movies. Her starring roles include her Golden Globe Award-winning portrayal of 'Tess Durbeyfield' in Roman Polanski's film Tess and her parts in Wim Wenders' films The Wrong Move, Paris, Texas, and Faraway, So Close!. During the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s Nastassja Kinski was widely regarded as an international sex symbol.

Career

Born in Berlin, Kinski is the daughter of the late German actor Klaus Kinski from his marriage to actress Ruth Brigitte Tocki. Her parents divorced in 1968. Kinski rarely saw her father after the age of 10. Kinski and her mother struggled financially^[1]. Eventually they ended up living in a commune in Munich.

Kinski's foray into the spotlight began in her native Germany where she started out as a model. At the age of 13, the German New Wave actress Lisa Kreuzer placed her in the role of the dumb Mignon in Wim Wenders' film The Wrong Move. In her mid-teens she starred in the British Hammer Film Productions' horror film To the Devil a Daughter (1976). Kinski has gained a certain notoriety through her nude appearances in these films whilst still a minor. This is linked to another controversy as to the exact year of her birth, which was apparently reported to the American authorities as 1959, though German records show that she was actually born in 1961. She has since 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". ^[2].

At 16, Kinski began a romantic relationship with director Roman Polanski, who was 28 years her senior. Polanski urged her to study acting with Lee Strasberg in the U.S.A. and went on to cast her in his film, Tess. Shortly after this on-screen success, legendary photographer Richard Avedon photographed Kinski with a serpent coiled around her naked body. The poster of this photo contributed to Kinski's renown as a popular icon.

In 1982 Kinski appeared as "Leila" the 'circus girl' in the Francis Ford Coppola/Dean Tavoularis collaboration One from the Heart which bankrupted Coppola's American Zoetrope studio. In 1982 she made the hit movie Cat People, and then the films Unfaithfully Yours, and The Hotel New Hampshire, which performed poorly at the box office and with critics. Critics praised her performance in Paris, Texas, and the film won awards at Cannes, but in the U.S the film was not widely released. 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 the former, and Exposed (1983), Maria's Lovers (1984) and Revolution (1985) in the latter. Kinski's luck turned in the 1990s when she appeared in films such as Terminal Velocity opposite Charlie Sheen and Mike Figgis' critically acclaimed One Night Stand.

In the mid-1980s Kinski met Egyptian film maker Ibrahim Moussa. They married on September 10, 1984. Together they raised Aljosha (born June 29, 1984), whose biological father is Vincent Spano and daughter Sonja Leila, now a model, who was born on March 2, 1986. The marriage was formally dissolved by divorce in 1992. From 1991 until 1997 Kinski lived with music impresario Quincy Jones. On February 9, 1993 their daughter Kenya Julia Miambi Sara was born.

Kinski has continued to be busy, albeit not to have the marque value she once had. Appearances of note have included Martin Donovan's Somebody Is Waiting (1996), Neil LaBute's Your Friends & Neighbours (1998), John Landis' Susan's Plan (1998), Chris Menges' The Lost Son (1999), Michael Winterbottom's The Claim (2000), and David Lynch's Inland Empire (2006).

A gifted polyglot, Kinski speaks German, English, French, Italian and Russian fluently.^[3]

Kinski is mentioned in songs "Up On The Catwalk" by Simple Minds (though singer Jim Kerr pronounces her name incorrectly) and "Mani me se lepa Nasto" by Đorđe Balašević

Selected filmography

• The Wrong Move (1975)
• To the Devil a Daughter (1976)
• Passion Flower Hotel (1978)
• Tess (1979)
• One from the Heart (1982)
• Cat People (1982)
• Exposed (1983)
• Moon in the Gutter (1983)
• Maria’s lovers (1984)
• Paris, Texas (1984)
• The Hotel New Hampshire (1984)
• Unfaithfully Yours (1984)
• Harem (1985)
• Revolution (1985)
• Faraway, So Close! (1993)
• Terminal Velocity (1994)
• Fathers' Day (1997)
• One Night Stand (1997)
• Bella Mafia (1997)
• Savior (1998)
• Playing by Heart (1998)
• Your Friends & Neighbors (1998)
• The Claim (2000)
• An American Rhapsody (2001)
• The Day the Earth Ended (2001)
• Town & Country (2001)
• Paradise Found (2003)
• À ton image (2004)
• Inland Empire (2006)

Notes

External links

• Nastassja Kinski at the Internet Movie Database
• Nastassja Kinski at the TCM Movie Database
• Nastassja Kinski at Yahoo! Movies
• Daddy's Girl - The Guardian, July 3, 1999.

Persondata
NAME	Kinski, Nastassja
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Nakszynski, Nastassja Aglaia
SHORT DESCRIPTION	actress
DATE OF BIRTH	January 24, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin, Germany
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH