Nastassja Kinski
Nastassja Kinski | |
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| Born | Nastassja Aglaia Nakszynski |
| Spouse | Ibrahim Moussa (1984 - 1992) |
Nastassja Kinski (born Nastassja Aglaia Nakszynski, January 24, 1961) is a German actress, who appeared in more than 60 international movies. Her starring roles include her Golden Globe Award-winning portrayal of 'Tess Durbeyfield' in Roman Polanski's film Tess, her roles in two erotic films (Stay As You Are and Cat People), and her parts in Wim Wenders' films The Wrong Move, Paris, Texas, and Faraway, So Close!. During the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, Kinski was widely regarded as an international sex symbol.
Early life
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] They eventually lived in a commune in Munich.
Career
Kinski's career began in Germany where she started as a model. At 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 notoriety through nude appearances in these films while still a minor. This is linked to controversy as to the year of her birth, apparently reported to American authorities as 1959, although German records show 1961. (Variety states 1960.[2]) 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". [3]
Kinski starred in the erotic film 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."[4]
At 15[5] Kinski began a romantic relationship with director Roman Polanski, 28 years her senior. Polanski urged her 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 serpent coiled around her naked body.
In 1982 Kinski appeared in the Francis Ford Coppola/Dean Tavoularis collaboration One from the Heart, which bankrupted Coppola's American Zoetrope studio. In 1982 she made Cat People, and then Unfaithfully Yours, and The Hotel New Hampshire, a critical and commercial failure. Critics praised her in Paris, Texas, which won awards at Cannes; In the U.S., however, 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.
Appearances of note have included Martin Donovan's Somebody Is Waiting (1996), Neil LaBute's Your Friends & Neighbors (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).
Personal life
In the mid-1980s Kinski met Egyptian filmmaker Ibrahim Moussa. They married on September 10, 1984. They raised son Aljosha (born June 29, 1984) and daughter Sonja Leila, now a model (born March 2, 1986). The marriage was dissolved in 1992. From 1991 until 1997 Kinski lived with musician Quincy Jones. On February 9, 1993, their daughter, Kenya Julia Miambi Sara, was born.
Kinski speaks German, English, French, Italian and Russian fluently. She is a vegetarian[6] and suffers from mild narcolepsy.[7]
Selected filmography
- The Wrong Move (1975)
- To the Devil a Daughter (1976)
- Passion Flower Hotel (1978)
- Così come sei (aka Stay as you are) (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)
- Il Sole Anche di Notte (1990)
- 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)
- The Magic of Marciano (2000)
- Time Share (2000)
- An American Rhapsody (2001)
- The Day the Earth Ended (2001)
- Town & Country (2001)
- .com for Murder (2002)
- Paradise Found (2003)
- À ton image (2004)
- Inland Empire (2006)
Notes
- ^ Daddy's Girl - The Guardian, July 3, 1999
- ^ http://www.variety.com/profiles/people/main/29535/Nastassja%20Kinski.html?dataSet=1
- ^ Nastassja Kinski in an Interview with Louise Farr, Kinski Business, W (magazine), May 1997
- ^ http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,952572,00.html
- ^ Leaming, Barbera. Polanski, A Biography: The Filmmaker as Voyeur. New York: Simon and Schuster. 1981. 155
- ^ http://www.happycow.net/famous/nastassja_kinski
- ^ "Kith and Kinski - Telegraph". Telegraph.co.uk. January 2001. Retrieved 2008-10-09.
External links
- Nastassja Kinski at IMDb
- Nastassja Kinski at the TCM Movie Database
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- Daddy's Girl - The Guardian, July 3, 1999.
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