Nastassja Kinski : 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.
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.) 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".
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 and suffers from mild narcolepsy.