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== Personal life == == Personal life ==

Kinski is rumoured to have had a romantic relationship with director ] while 15 years old<ref>Leaming, Barbera ''Polanski, A Biography: The Filmmaker as Voyeur'', New York: Simon and Schuster (1981), p. 155.</ref><ref>'']'' (directed by Marina Zenovich), ] in 2008.</ref>, though she has denied this <ref name="guardian1999"/>.


In the mid-1980s Kinski met ]ian filmmaker ]. They married on September 10, 1984. They raised her son (by actor ]), Aljosha (born 29 June 1984) and daughter, Sonja Kinski, now a model (born 2 March 1986). The marriage was dissolved in 1992. From 1991 until 1997 Kinski lived with musician ]. On 9 February 1993, their daughter, Kenya Julia Miambi Sarah Jones, was born. In the mid-1980s Kinski met ]ian filmmaker ]. They married on September 10, 1984. They raised her son (by actor ]), Aljosha (born 29 June 1984) and daughter, Sonja Kinski, now a model (born 2 March 1986). The marriage was dissolved in 1992. From 1991 until 1997 Kinski lived with musician ]. On 9 February 1993, their daughter, Kenya Julia Miambi Sarah Jones, was born.

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Nastassja Kinski
Nastassja Kinski 2009
BornNastassja Aglaia Nakszyński
OccupationActress
Years active1975–present
Spouse(s)Quincy Jones (domestic partner, 1991-1997); Ibrahim Moussa (1984–1992)

Nastassja Kinski (born January 24, 1959 or 1960 or 1961) 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!. In the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, Kinski was widely regarded as an international sex symbol: Richard Avedon's photo of her, nude with a large python, was marketed as a poster.

Early life

Born in Berlin as Nastassja Aglaia Nakszyński on 24 January 1959, 1960 or 1961, Kinski is the daughter of the 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. 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). 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."

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." 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 serpent 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, a critical and commercial failure. Critics praised her in Paris, Texas, which won awards at Cannes. In the United States, 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 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' 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).

To date she hasn't appeared in any further films following her cameo in 'Inland Empire' (2006) though she was for a long while rumoured to star in Quentin Tarantino's war epic 'Inglourious Basterds' (2009) as movie diva and double agent Bridget Von Hammersmark, Tarantino even went as far as flying to Berlin to talk to her about the role but nothing was finalized and the role was instead played by fellow German-American actress Diane Kruger.

Personal life

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 29 June 1984) and daughter, Sonja Kinski, now a model (born 2 March 1986). The marriage was dissolved in 1992. From 1991 until 1997 Kinski lived with musician Quincy Jones. On 9 February 1993, their daughter, Kenya Julia Miambi Sarah Jones, was born.

Kinski speaks German, French, English, Italian and Russian fluently.

Selected filmography

References

  1. "January 24". Born-today.com. Retrieved 18 April 2010.
  2. "'Variety' report citing Kinski's year of birth as 1960". Variety.com. 24 January 1960. Retrieved 24 January 2010.
  3. David Thomson (2003) The New Biographical Dictionary of Film: 471
  4. John Sandford (ed) (2001) Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture (Routledge world reference): 340
  5. ^ "Der Spiegel report on Kinski". Spiegel.de. 15 March 1961. Retrieved 18 April 2010. She also stated that she was born in 1961 on the Johannes B. Kerner Show
  6. See above.
  7. "Daddy's Girl". Guardian. 3 July 1999. Retrieved 18 April 2010.
  8. a Daily Telegraph report of 8 January 2001 gives her then age as 39: Kith and Kinski
  9. Nastassja Kinski interview with Louise Farr. "Kinski Business", W magazine, May 1997.
  10. By HP-Time.com;R.S. Monday, Jan. 21, 1980 (21 January 1980). "Cinema: Bedrock Taboo". TIME. Retrieved 18 April 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

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