Alex Kinski

Infobox soap character
name = Alex Kinski
colour = Television colour|Neighbours
series = Neighbours


first =10 August 2005
Episode 4783
last = 13 December 2005
Episode 4872
cause = Died from leukaemia
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gender = Male
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death = 2005
occupation = College professor of economics
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family =
spouse = Francesca Sangmu
Susan Smith (2005)
children = Katya Kinski
Rachel Kinski
Zeke Kinski
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portrayer = Andrew Clarke
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Alexander Isiovich "Alex" Kinski is a fictional character in the Australian soap opera "Neighbours", played by Andrew Clarke for several months in 2005.

History

Intro

Alex is introduced as the Belarusian father of Rachel and Zeke, both attending Erinsborough High. When he learns that ex-convict Paul Robinson is going to be teaching his children, he approaches Susan Smith and asks that she fire him. Susan refuses, so Alex threatens to take his children out of the school so he could home school them. He is a university professor and his late wife Francesca had home-schooled them. Francesca was from Tibet.

Cancer

Alex is diagnosed with Angioimmunoblastic T-Cell Lymphoma, a rare acute idiopathic form of leukaemia, by Dr. Karl Kennedy, and is told he had only months to live. This makes him hesitant in wanting to propose to Susan, but he eventually does. While trying to accept that he is dying, he turns to Jonathan Verne - the same man that Steph Hoyland went to a few years before after her first diagnosis of breast cancer - for alternative treatments, until Jonathan is arrested by Stuart Parker and Alex is made aware of his past as a con artist.

Engagement

It was later discovered that Alex has an ulterior motive when he proposed to Susan; as much as he loves her, he is also "securing a mother" for his children when he died.

Remarriage and death

Shortly before marrying Susan, Rachel and Zeke find their estranged sister Katya. Alex and Katya got some stuff off their chests before the wedding but Alex died several hours later.

Family tree

*Alex Kinski, married to Francesca Sangmu (deceased) and Susan Smith
**Katya Kinski (daughter)
**Rachel Kinski (daughter)
**Zeke Kinski (son)
**Ben Kinski (Nephew)
**Leah Kinski (Niece)
**Malcolm Kennedy (stepson), married to Catherine O'Brien
**Libby Kennedy (stepdaughter), married to Drew Kirk (deceased)
***Ben Kirk (step-grandson)
**Billy Kennedy (stepson)
***Jackson Kennedy (step-grandson)