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Nastassja Kinski
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] Eventually they lived in a commune in Munich.
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 though German records show 1961. (Variety states 1960.[1]) 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". [2]
Kinski starred in an 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."[2]
At 15[3] Kinski began a romantic relationship with director Roman Polanski, 28 years her senior. Polanski urged her to study acting with Lee Strasberg in the USA and cast her in his film, Tess (1979). Shortly after this screen success, photographer Richard Avedon photographed Kinski with a serpent coiled around her naked body (1981).
In 1982 Kinski appeared as "Leila" the circus girl 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, which performed poorly at the box office and with critics. Critics praised her in Paris, Texas, and the film won awards at Cannes, but in the U.S 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.
In the mid-1980s Kinski met Egyptian film maker Ibrahim Moussa. They married on September 10, 1984. They raised 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 music impresario Quincy Jones. On February 9, 1993 their daughter Kenya Julia Miambi Sara was born.
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).
Kinski speaks German, English, French, Italian and Russian fluently and is a vegetarian.[citation needed]
Kinski is mentioned in songs "Up On The Catwalk" by Simple Minds, though singer Jim Kerr pronounces her name incorrectly as "Natasha", and "Mani me se lepa Nasto" by Đorđe Balašević
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La Femme Musketeer
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Gerard Depardieu, Michael York, Nastassja Kinski
Director: Steve Boyum
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Valentine (Susie Amy), the daughter of famed musketeer D'Artagnan (Michael York), wants nothing more than to become a daring French swashbuckler like her father. Turning her back on the social mores imposed on the women of the day, she proves her fearlessness and is finally asked by the king to ..read more »
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Cold Heart
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Jeff Fahey, Nastassja Kinski, Josh Holloway
Director: Dennis Dimster
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Linda has a thriving business and a marriage she believes to be perfect. When temptation arrives she starts an affair with the new P.A. He, however, is a psychiatric patient of her husband's who preys on vulnerable women...
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The Day The World Ended
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Randy Quaid, Nastassja Kinski
Director: Terence Gross
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This horror film involves a traumatised young boy and a creature that may or may not be the product of his imagination. This made-for-TV movie stars Randy Quaid and Nastassja Kinski.
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Rip Off
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Jennifer Esposito, Alyson Hannigan, Nastassja Kinski
Director: Gigi Gaston
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Lexi (Alyson Hannigan) and Misha (Nastassja Kinski) both have lowlife criminal boyfriends who are collaborating on plans to rob a casino. Fed up over the second class treatment their thuggish men consistently give them, these women decide it's time to get their own piece of the pie and beat their ..read more »
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Say Nothing
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Nastassja Kinski, William Baldwin, Hart Bochner
Director: Alan Moyle
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The marriage of Grace and Gregg starts to suffer when he loses his job and turns to drink. On a chance weekend away she meets and is seduced by a mysterious stranger but on her return home finds that her husband has a new job and things are back to normal. Despite deciding to say nothing about her ..read more »
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The Claim
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Peter Mullan, Milla Jovovich, Wes Bentley
Director: Michael Winterbottom
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In transporting Thomas Hardy's THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE to the American West, English director Michael Winterbottom has fashioned an audacious, epic anti-Western that is a haunting achievement. Set in 1849, the story concerns Mr. Dillon (Peter Mullan), the ruler of Kingdom Come, a snow-covered ..read more »
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Red Letters
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Peter Coyote, Nastassja Kinski, Jeremy Piven
Director: Bradley Battersby
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A university professor embarks on an affair with a convicted murderess, only to become convinced she's been the victim of a frame by a former lover. Soon, he begins a series of dogged attempts to convince a weary police detective of the truth.
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Crackerjack
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Thomas Ian Griffith, Nastassja Kinski, Christopher Plummer
Director: Michael Mazo
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An entire mountain resort located in an isolated area is taken hostage for a $50 million jewel heist involving a white supremacist (Christopher Plummer) and a psycho cop Jack Wild (Thomas Ian Griffith) who will stop at nothing to bring him to justice following the death of his wife and kids.
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Susan's Plan
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Nastassja Kinski, Billy Zane, Michael Biehn
Director: John Landis
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A woman has her eye on her former husband's life insurance should the worst happen. But to speed things along a little she plans his murder. The bumbling killers she employs to do the job stumble from one mess to another...
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The Lost Son
(1999)
Starring: Daniel Auteuil, Nastassja Kinski, Katrin Cartlidge
Director: Chris Menges
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In THE LOST SON, disgraced former French policeman Xavier Lombard (French actor Daniel Auteuil of JEAN DE FLORETTE) is living in exile in London and working as a private investigator. When Lombard takes up the seemingly routine assignment of finding a rich family's missing drug-addicted son, the ..read more »
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Fathers' Day
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Robin Williams, Billy Crystal, Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Director: Ivan Reitman
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Desperate to track down her wayward teenage son, a woman contacts a pair of old flames and tells each that he's the boy's father, setting in motion a forced-buddy, on-the-road romp. Billy Crystal and Robin Williams shared the screen for the first time in this remake of the 1984 French farce "Les ..read more »
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One Night Stand
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Wesley Snipes, Nastassja Kinski, Kyle MacLachlan
Director: Mike Figgis
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Max is a happily married and successful man with two healthy children. However, on a business trip to New York, he meets the beautiful Karen and they embark on a brief affair. On his return home he finds his life different and he begins to withdraw from the people closest to him, even though he ..read more »
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Savior
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Nastassja Kinski, Stellan Skarsgard
Director: Peter Antonijevic
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Joshua joins the Foreign Legion to escape a crime he committed to avenge the death of his family. Finding himself in war-torn Bosnia he soon becomes hardened to the horrors of war and finds himself nurturing an infant...
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Somebody Is Waiting
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Nastassja Kinski, Johnny Whitworth
Director: Martin Donovan
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Leon Ellis is a kind-hearted, well-intentioned boy who just can't seem to stay out of trouble. His mother Charlotte is the soul of goodness, dedicated to her five children but burdened with the sorrows of her cruel and nasty alcoholic husband, who leaves the family destitute. However, when ..read more »
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Terminal Velocity
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Charlie Sheen, Nastassja Kinski, James Gandolfini
Director: Deran Sarafian
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When a parachute school is shut down because a beautiful student's chute fails to open, the hotshot instructor freefalls into a pool of intrigue. He discovers the accident was a set-up and the woman, a former KGB agent on the run from the new Russian Mafia, is alive and well--for now.
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Revolution
(1985)
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Al Pacino, Nastassja Kinski
Director: Hugh Hudson
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Set against the American War of Independence, this film deals with a romance between a trapper and a woman of wealth and also depicts an English soldier's life amongst the arrogant British ranks.
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The Hotel New Hampshire
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Jodie Foster, Beau Bridges, Nastassja Kinski
Director: Tony Richardson
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British director Tony Richardson takes on John Irving's picaresque black comedy about an eccentric and unusually peripatetic family in a film starring Rob Lowe as John Berry, the family's oldest son. John's father, Win (Beau Bridges), is obsessed with hotels, so he buys a run-down seminary in New ..read more »
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Paris, Texas
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell, Harry Dean Stanton
Director: Wim Wenders
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Winner of the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1984, Wim Wenders's PARIS, TEXAS tells the haunting story of an amnesiac (Harry Dean Stanton) and his struggle to rebuild his shattered life. Featuring a story by Sam Shepard and a renowned score by Ry Cooder, the film also stars Nastassja ..read more »
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One From The Heart
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Nastassja Kinski, Frederic Forrest, Teri Garr
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
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ONE FROM THE HEART is Francis Ford Coppola's ambitious and intensely stylized musical about a working-class couple living in Las Vegas. On the eve of their five-year anniversary, Frannie (Teri Garr) and Hank (Frederic Forrest) find themselves breaking up. Hank meets a circus performer (Nastassja ..read more »
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Cat People
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell, John Heard
Director: Paul Schrader
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After Irena (Nastassia Kinski), a young woman with a mysterious past, is reunited with her brother Paul (Malcom MacDowell), a series of bizarre events is set into motion. When Irena discovers that her sexuality is intimately linked with that of her brother's--as well as with a strange human-feline ..read more »
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Tess
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Nastassja Kinski, Peter Firth, Leigh Lawson
Director: Roman Polanski
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Based on Thomas Hardy's tragic 1891 novel TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES, TESS follows the hard life of a beautiful young Wessex peasant girl, who seeks her fortune with the wealthy D'Urbervilles, whom her family believes to be distant relatives. Tess's tragic fate is sealed the moment the manipulative ..read more »
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Blind Terror
on DVD
Starring: Nastassja Kinski, Stewart Bick, Maxim Roy
Director: Giles Walker
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The wonder of romance captures Susan (Nastassja Kinski) so completely that she impulsively marries a man who she hardly knows. Marital bliss soon becomes a domestic nightmare when Susan is the subject of telephone terrorism from a woman who claims to be an ex-lover of Susan's new husband. Susan ..read more »
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