Nastassja Kinski

Nastassja Kinski
Nastassja Kinski

Nastassja Kinski in 2009
Born Nastassja Aglaia Nakszyński
January 24, 1961 (1961-01-24) (age 50)
West Berlin, West Germany
Occupation actress
Years active 1975–present
Spouse Ibrahim Moussa (1984–1992)

Nastassja Kinski (born January 24, 1961[1][2]) 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.

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Early life

Born in Berlin as Nastassja Aglaia Nakszyński[2] on 24 January 1960 or 1961,[3] Kinski is the daughter of the German actor Klaus Kinski from his marriage to actress Ruth Brigitte Tocki - this makes her half sister to Pola Kinski and Nikolai Kinski. Her parents divorced in 1968. Kinski rarely saw her father after the age of 10. Kinski and her mother struggled financially.[4] They eventually lived in a commune in Munich.

Career

Kinski's career began in Germany where she started 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). Kinski has gained notoriety through nude appearances in these films while still a minor. This is linked to controversy as to the exact year of her birth (see above).[5] 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."[6]

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."[7] 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, Kinski 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.[8] 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. . ."[9] The film failed at the box office, and was a major loss for Coppola's new studio, Zoetrope. "In the wake of the dismal showing at the box office, . . . after less than two years in operation, Zoetrope Studios was for sale." It became "one of the biggest box office failures in modern cinema history."[10][relevant? – discuss] For the film, Coppola had built one of the most expensive movie sets in the history of Hollywood: "His glittering, surreal re-creation of neon Las Vegas alone cost more than $6 million," notes movie historian Gene D. Phillips.

Other appearances 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).

She has not appeared in any films since her cameo in Inland Empire in 2006.

Personal life

In 1976, Kinski started a romantic relationship with Roman Polanski, when she was 16 years old and he was 43 years old. In 1979, their relationship ended at the completion of filming Polanski's Oscar-nominated Tess, in which Kinski had played the lead role.[11][12][13][14][15]

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.[16]

Kinski speaks German, French, English, Italian and Russian fluently.[17][18]

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. ^ a b "Der Spiegel report on Kinski". Spiegel.de. 15 March 1961. http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-43160419.html. Retrieved 18 April 2010.  She also stated that she was born in 1961 on the Johannes B. Kerner Show
  3. ^ See above.
  4. ^ "Daddy's Girl". London: Guardian. 3 July 1999. http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,290196,00.html. Retrieved 18 April 2010. 
  5. ^ a Daily Telegraph report of 8 January 2001 gives her then age as 39: Kith and Kinski
  6. ^ Nastassja Kinski interview with Louise Farr. "Kinski Business", W magazine, May 1997.
  7. ^ By HP-Time.com;R.S. Monday, Jan. 21, 1980 (21 January 1980). "Cinema: Bedrock Taboo". TIME. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,952572,00.html. Retrieved 18 April 2010. 
  8. ^ Coppola, Francis Ford; Phillips, Gene D.; Hill, Rodney. Francis Ford Coppola: Interviews, Univ. Press of Mississippi, (2004) p. 136
  9. ^ Texas Monthly, March 1982 p. 175
  10. ^ Lewis, Jon. Whom God Wishes to Destroy: Francis Ford Coppola and the New Hollywood, Duke Univ. Press (1995) p. 68
  11. ^ Lester, Peter (13 April 1981). "After 'Tess' and Roman Polanski, Nastassia Kinski Trades Notoriety for L.A. Propriety". Time Magazine. http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20079025,00.html. 
  12. ^ Curtis, Bryan (3 October 2009). "Roman's Holiday Where has Polanski been hiding?". Slate Magazine. http://www.slate.com/id/2077916/. 
  13. ^ Gumbel, Andrew (1 March 2003). "Roman Polanski: Cinema's demonic chronicler of the Holocaust". London: The Independent. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/roman-polanski-cinemas-demonic-chronicler-of-the-holocaust-599091.html. 
  14. ^ Goodwin, Christopher (13 April 2008). "Wanted and Desired: a film that has shone new light on a murky affair". London: TimesOnline UK. http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article3720836.ece. 
  15. ^ Sandford, Christopher (25 August 2007). "The dark secrets of Roman Polanski". The Los Angeles Times. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-477609/The-dark-secrets-Roman-Polanksi.html. 
  16. ^ Docherty, Cameron (1997-09-26). "Interview: Nastassja Kinski - Still a daddy's girl". London: Independent.co.uk. http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/interview-nastassja-kinski--still-a-daddys-girl-1241160.html. Retrieved 2010-05-25. 
  17. ^ http://www.famouswhy.com. "Nastassja Kinski Biography, Pictures, Videos, Movies, Relationships - FamousWhy". People.famouswhy.com. http://people.famouswhy.com/nastassja_kinski/. Retrieved 2010-05-25. 
  18. ^ "RivalQuest Celebrity - Nastassja Kinski Pictures, Posters, Biography, Pics, Filmography, Stats". Rivalquest.com. 1959-01-24. http://www.rivalquest.com/gallery/n/nastassjakinski/. Retrieved 2010-05-25. 

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