Nastassja Kinski

Kinski was born in West Berlin as Nastassja Aglaia Nakszynski.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3m5SrXs42YEC&q=Nastassja+Aglaia+Nakszynski&pg=PA154 |title=The Francis Ford Coppola Encyclopedia |isbn=9780810876514 |last1=Welsh |first1=James M. |last2=Phillips |first2=Gene D. |last3=Hill |first3=Rodney F. |date=27 August 2010 |publisher=Scarecrow Press }} She is the daughter of German actor Klaus KinskiDavidson, John E. Deterritorializing the New German Cinema, Regents of the University of Minnesota, 1999, p. 80 and his second wife, actress Ruth Brigitte Tocki.Welsh, James Michael; Gene D. Phillips; Rodney Hill. The Francis Ford Coppola Encyclopedia, Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press Inc., 2010, p. 154 She is of partial Polish descent, for her grandfather Bruno Nakszynski was a Germanized ethnic Pole.{{cite web |url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19911126/1319452/klaus-kinski-polish-born-actor-who-starred-in-werner-herzog-films |title=Obituaries - Klaus Kinski, Polish-Born Actor Who Starred in Werner Herzog Films - Seattle Times Newspaper }} Kinski has two half-siblings: Pola and Nikolai Kinski. Her parents divorced in 1968. After the age of 10, Kinski rarely saw her father. Her young mother struggled financially to support them;{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/weekend/story/0,3605,290196,00.html |title=Daddy's Girl |newspaper=The Guardian |date=3 July 1999 |access-date=18 April 2010 |location=London}} they eventually lived in a commune in Munich.

In a 1999 interview, Kinski denied that her father had molested her as a child, but said he had abused her "in other ways". In 2013, when interviewed about the allegations of sexual abuse made by her half-sister Pola Kinski,{{cite news |last=Jackson |first=Patrick |title=German actor Klaus Kinski 'abused his daughter Pola' |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur971857 |work=BBC News Online |date=10 January 2013 |access-date=10 January 2013}}{{cite news |last=Roxborough |first=Scott |title=Klaus Kinski's Daughter Claims He Sexually Abused Her |url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/klaus-kinski-daughter-sexual-abuse-410213 |work=The Hollywood Reporter |date=9 January 2013 |access-date=10 January 2013}} she confirmed that he attempted this with her, but did not succeed. She said, "He was no father. Ninety-nine percent of the time I was terrified of him. He was so unpredictable that the family lived in constant terror." When asked what she would say to him now, if she had the chance, she replied, "I would do anything to put him behind bars for life. I am glad he is no longer alive."{{cite news |last=Biss |first=Malta |title=Jetzt spricht Nastassja |url=http://www.bild.de/unterhaltung/leute/klaus-kinski/jetzt-spricht-nastassja-kinski-ueber-ihren-vater-28071840.bild.html |newspaper=Bild |date=13 January 2013 |access-date=13 January 2013}}

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Kinski began working as a model as a teenager in Germany. Actress Lisa Kreuzer of the German New Wave helped get her the role of the mute Mignon in Wim Wenders 1975 film The Wrong Move,{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/11394696/Nastassja-Kinski-interview-Ive-had-such-low-self-esteem.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/11394696/Nastassja-Kinski-interview-Ive-had-such-low-self-esteem.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Nastassja Kinski interview: 'I've had such low self-esteem' |last=Jenkins |first=David |date=6 February 2015 |access-date=9 June 2016 |work=The Daily Telegraph}}{{cbignore}} in which at the age of 12 she was depicted topless.{{cite web |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/reviewing-the-screen-works-of-wenders-1425259939 |title=Fresh Takes on Director Wim Wenders |last=Dollar |first=Steve |date=1 March 2015 |access-date=24 July 2016 |work=The Wall Street Journal}} She later played one of the leading roles in Wenders' film Paris, Texas (1984) and appeared in his film Faraway, So Close (1993).

In 1976, while still a teenager, Kinski had her first two major roles: in Wolfgang Petersen's feature film-length episode Reifezeugnis of the German TV crime series Tatort. Next, she appeared in the British horror film To the Devil a Daughter (1976), produced by Hammer Film Productions, which was released in the UK just 40 days after Kinski's fifteenth birthday, making it a virtual certainty she was only fourteen when her scenes were shot (including full frontal nudity). In regards to her early films, Kinski has stated that she felt exploited by the industry. In an interview with W, she said, "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."Nastassja Kinski interview with Louise Farr. "Kinski Business", W, May 1997.

In 1978, Kinski starred in the Italian romance Stay as You Are (Così come sei) with Marcello Mastroianni, gaining her recognition in the United States after New Line Cinema released it there in December 1979. Time wrote that she was "simply ravishing, genuinely sexy and high-spirited without being painfully aggressive about it."{{cite magazine|author=R.S. |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,952572,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080613190957/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,952572,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=13 June 2008|title=Cinema: Bedrock Taboo|magazine=TIME|date=21 January 1980|access-date=18 April 2010}} The film also received a major international release from Columbia Pictures.

Kinski met the director Roman Polanski at a party in 1976.{{cite magazine|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20079025,00.html|title=After 'Tess' and Roman Polanski, Nastassia Kinski trades notoriety for L.A. Propriety|magazine=People|date=13 April 1981|access-date=21 September 2015}} He urged her to study method acting with Lee Strasberg in the United States and she was offered the title role in Polanski's upcoming film, Tess (1979). In 1978, Kinski underwent extensive preparation for the portrayal of an English peasant girl, which included acquiring a Dorset accent through elocution studies:

{{bquote|I was given the book almost a year prior to read, I then had to transform myself and lose my German accent completely. I worked with a coach from the National Theatre in London, Kate Fleming. It was almost an intellectual voyage. [...] I went to live in the countryside of the deep part of England, on a farm, did everything they did, and learned it. When the time came in Paris to do my test, it was with our director and our producers Claude Berri and Timothy Burrill, I had done a screen test with Roman prior to that, for Dino DeLaurentis, but now this was for Tess. Preparation is an amazing thing. It, somehow, after all the work, carries you if you are fully present, it carries you through like a bird, like big inner and outer wings.{{cite news|url=http://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/working-from-the-heart-an-interview-with-and-appreciation-of-nastassja-kinski|title=Working From The Heart: The Career of Nastassja Kinski|publisher=Roger Ebert|date=25 November 2014|access-date=21 September 2015}}}}

'Tess' was nominated for six awards, including Best Picture, at the 53rd Academy Awards, and won three.

On 14 June 1981, Vogue editor Polly Allen Mellen asked Nastassja Kinski what she liked and Kinski replied,{{cite web |title=When Avedon Shot Nastassja Kinski and a Boa Constrictor |url=https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/10549/when-avedon-shot-nastassja-kinski-and-a-boa-constrictor |website=AnOther |access-date=2 April 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180207160305/https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/10549/when-avedon-shot-nastassja-kinski-and-a-boa-constrictor |archive-date=February 7, 2018 |language=en |date=7 February 2018}} "snakes,"{{cite news |last1=Allen |first1=Eric |title=Beautiful Homes Made Better With Richard Avedon's Photographs |url=https://www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/beautiful-homes-richard-avedons-photographs |access-date=2 April 2025 |work=Architectural Digest |date=24 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161130040232/https://www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/beautiful-homes-richard-avedons-photographs |archive-date=November 30, 2016}}{{cite web |last1=Nilsen |first1=Richard |title=Lady and the snakes, part 3 |url=https://richardnilsen.com/2018/01/24/lady-and-the-snakes-part-3/ |website=Richard Nilsen .com |access-date=2 April 2025 |language=en |date=24 January 2018}} then a Burmese python was hired for the photoshoot with Richard Avedon, with resulting photograph of Kinski with a Burmese python{{cite web |title=Bonhams Skinner : Richard Avedon : Nastassja Kinski and the Serpent |url=https://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/bonhams-skinner-richard-avedon-nastassja-kinski-and-the-serpent/ |website=L'Œil de la Photographie (The Eye of Photography) Magazine |access-date=2 April 2025 |date=10 May 2024}} coiled{{cite web |title=Nastassja Kinski and the Serpent, Los Angeles, California, June 14, 1981 |url=https://www.phillips.com/detail/richard-avedon/UK040222/65 |website=Richard Avedon - Photographs London Tuesday, November 22, 2022 |publisher=Phillips (auctioneers) |access-date=2 April 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221126150532/https://www.phillips.com/detail/richard-avedon/UK040222/65 |archive-date=November 26, 2022 |language=en}} around her nude body, "Nastassja Kinski and the Serpent, Los Angeles, California, June 14, 1981".{{cite web |last1=Avedon |first1=Richard |author1-link=Richard Avedon |title=Nastassja Kinski and the Serpent, Los Angeles, California, June 14, 1981 |url=https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6466317 |website=Christie's |access-date=2 April 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240119111853/https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6466317 |archive-date=January 19, 2024 |language=en}}{{cite web |last1=Campbell |first1=Tori |title=Beauty and The Beast: Nastassja Kinski & the Serpent |url=https://magazine.artland.com/stories-of-iconic-artworks-nastassja-kinski-the-serpent/ |website=Artland Magazine |access-date=2 April 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200428011036/https://magazine.artland.com/stories-of-iconic-artworks-nastassja-kinski-the-serpent/ |archive-date=April 28, 2020 |date=10 April 2020}} The image, which first appeared in the October 1981 issue of US Vogue, was released as a poster and became a best-seller, further confirming her status as a sex symbol.{{cite web |last1=Savill |first1=Richard |title=Nastassja Kinski snake print to go on sale |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/artsales/5674192/Nastassja-Kinski-snake-print-to-go-on-sale.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/artsales/5674192/Nastassja-Kinski-snake-print-to-go-on-sale.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |website=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=29 March 2015 |date=2009}}{{cbignore}}

In 1982, she starred in Francis Ford Coppola's romantic musical One from the Heart, her first film made in the United States.Coppola, Francis Ford; Phillips, Gene D.; Hill, Rodney. Francis Ford Coppola: Interviews, Univ. Press of Mississippi, (2004) p. 136 Texas Monthly described her as acting "as a Felliniesque circus performer to represent the twinkling evanescence of Eros."Texas Monthly, March 1982 p. 175 The film failed at the box office and was a major loss for Coppola's new Zoetrope Studios. That year, she was also in the erotic supernatural horror movie Cat People. On 29 December 1982, Kinski made a puzzling appearance on the program Late Night with David Letterman, seeming somewhat oblivious to the jokes and everything else that was going on around her and appearing with an unusual hair style Letterman described as "looking like there was an owl perched on top of her head." (Letterman's second guest, John Candy, came out with his own hair moussed up in a pile as a spoof of Kinski's hair.)

Dudley Moore's comedy Unfaithfully Yours and an adaptation of John Irving's The Hotel New Hampshire followed in 1984.

Kinski reteamed with Wenders for the 1984 film Paris, Texas. One of her most acclaimed films to date, it won the top award at the Cannes Film Festival. Throughout the 1980s, Kinski 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 United States.{{cn|date=April 2025}}

During the 1990s, Kinski appeared in a number of American films, including the action movie Terminal Velocity opposite Charlie Sheen, the Mike Figgis 1997 adultery tale One Night Stand, Your Friends & Neighbors (1998), John Landis's Susan's Plan (1998), and The Lost Son (1999).

Her most recent films include David Lynch's Inland Empire (2006) and Rotimi Rainwater's Sugar (2013). In 2016, she competed in the German Let's Dance show.[https://www.welt.de/vermischtes/article151728583/Nastassja-Kinski-zieht-die-Tanzschuhe-an.html Schauspielerin Nastassja Kinski, hier beim 11. Semperopernball in Dresden, wagt sich bei „Let's Dance" aufs Parkett : Die ersten Kandidaten für die neunte Staffel der Tanzshow „Let's Dance" stehen fest: Schauspielerin Nastassja Kinski, Schlagersänger Michael Wendler, Sängerin Sarah Lombardi und Moderator Niels Ruf], welt.de; accessed 19 December 2016.{{in lang|de}}

In 1976, when Kinski was aged 15, it was speculated that there had been a romantic relationship with director Roman Polanski, who at the time was 43.{{cite magazine |url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20079025,00.html |title=After 'Tess' and Roman Polanski, Nastassia Kinski Trades Notoriety for L.A. Propriety |magazine=Time Magazine |date=13 April 1981 |first=Peter |last=Lester}}{{cite magazine |url=http://www.slate.com/id/2077916 |title=Roman's Holiday Where has Polanski been hiding? |magazine=Slate Magazine |date=3 October 2009 |first=Bryan |last=Curtis |access-date=19 December 2016}}{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/roman-polanski-cinemas-demonic-chronicler-of-the-holocaust-599091.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091003093639/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/roman-polanski-cinemas-demonic-chronicler-of-the-holocaust-599091.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=3 October 2009 |title=Roman Polanski: Cinema's demonic chronicler of the Holocaust |newspaper=The Independent|date=1 March 2003 |first=Andrew |last=Gumbel |location=London}}{{cite news |url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article3720836.ece |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081014132056/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article3720836.ece |url-status=dead |archive-date=14 October 2008 |title=Wanted and Desired: a film that has shone new light on a murky affair |publisher=TimesOnline UK |date=13 April 2008 |first=Christopher |last=Goodwin |location=London, UK}} Polanski confirmed the relationship in a 1994 interview with Diane Sawyer: "...what about Nastassja Kinski? She was young and we had a love affair."{{cite web| url = https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2w3kw| title = Roman Polanski interviewed by Diane Sawyer on Primetime, 1994| date = 2 September 2007}} However, in a 1999 interview in The Guardian, Kinski was quoted as saying that there was no affair and that "there was a flirtation. There could have been a seduction, but there was not. He had respect for me."

Kinski has three children from different relationships. Her first child, son Aljosha Nakszynski (born 29 June 1984), was fathered by actor Vincent Spano, her co-star in Maria's Lovers.[https://www.elperiodico.com/es/gente/20111216/kinski-no-anoro-el-cine-1272704 Kinski: No añoro el cine] Marta Cervera Barcelona, El Periódico de Catalunya, 16 December 2011{{cite web |title=Nastassja Kinski |url=http://users.atw.hu/nastassjakinsk/bio.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250402064555/http://users.atw.hu/nastassjakinsk/bio.html |archive-date=2 April 2025 |website=users.atw.hu |access-date=2 April 2025}} On 10 September 1984, Kinski married Egyptian filmmaker Ibrahim Moussa, with whom she had daughter Sonja Kinski (born 2 March 1986). The marriage was dissolved in July 1992. From 1992 until 1995, Kinski lived with musician Quincy Jones, though she kept her own apartment on Hilgard Avenue, near UCLA, at the time.Daily Bruin, Monday, 16 January 1995, p. 8 They had a daughter, Kenya Julia Niambi Sarah Jones (born 9 February 1993),{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-04-11-vw-21556-story.html |title=Lifestyles of the Rich and Babied: Seems many celebrities have joined the parenthood club. How do they manage their mega-busy lives? |work=Los Angeles Times|date=11 April 1993 }} a model known professionally as Kenya Kinski-Jones.{{cite news |last1=Simon |first1=Samantha |title=13 Things to Know About Our Style Crush Kenya Kinski-Jones |url=http://www.instyle.com/celebrity/13-things-know-about-our-style-crush-kenya-kinski-jones |access-date=25 April 2017 |work=InStyle |date=15 February 2007 |language=en}}

In 1997, Kinski dated married producer Jonathan D. Krane during a brief separation from his wife, actress Sally Kellerman.New York Daily News, 7 January 1998 Over the course of her career, Kinski has also been romantically linked with Paul Schrader, Jean-Jacques Beineix, Rob Lowe, Jon Voight, Gérard Depardieu, Dudley Moore, Miloš Forman and Wim Wenders.{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/351350%7C0/nastassja-kinski#family-companions|title=Companions for Nastassja Kinski|publisher=Turner Classic Movies}} As of 2012, she was dating actor Rick Yune.

In 2001, Kinski stated in an interview in The Daily Telegraph that she was affected by the sleep disorder narcolepsy.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4720944/Kith-and-Kinski.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4720944/Kith-and-Kinski.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Kith and Kinski |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |date=8 January 2001 |access-date=22 April 2013 |first=David |last=Jenkins |location=London}}{{cbignore}}

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The awards and nominations received by Nastassja Kinski include one Art Film Fest Award, one Bambi Award, two Bravo Ottos (out of three nominations), two Deutscher Filmpreis Awards (also out of three nominations), one Golden Globe (out of two nominations), one Jupiter Award, one Nastro d'Argento Award and one Wine Country Film Festival Award.

Among others, her achievements in film industry include also two César Awards nominations, one Globo d'oro nomination, and one Saturn Award nomination.

Bambi Awards

Bravo Otto Awards

César Awards

Deutscher Filmpreis Awards

• A {{Note|note_a1}} Shared with Hans Christian Blech, Ivan Desny, Adolf Hansen, Marianne Hoppe, Peter Kern, Lisa Kreuzer, Hanna Schygulla and Rüdiger Vogler.

Globo d'oro Awards

Golden Globe Awards

Jupiter Awards

Nastro d'Argento Awards

Saturn Awards

Wine Country Film Festival Awards

• B {{Note|note_b1}} Tied with Hege Schøyen for The Prompter.

Art Film Fest Awards

Moscow International Film Festival

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• Peter Sobczynski. [https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/working-from-the-heart-an-interview-with-and-appreciation-of-nastassja-kinski "interview with Nastassja Kinski"] at rogerebert.com 25 November 2014
• [https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/nastassja-kinski Nastassja Kinski] at Getty Images
• [https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/nastassja-kinski.html Nastassja Kinski] at alamy

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