Nastassja Kinski Biography
Nastassja Aglaia Kinski is a German actress and former model who has appeared in more than 60 films in Europe and the United States. Her worldwide breakthrough was with Stay as You Are (1978). She then came to global prominence with her Golden Globe Award-winning performance as the title character in the Roman Polanski-directed film Tess (1979). Other notable films in which she acted include the erotic horror film Cat people (1982), the Wim Wenders dramas Paris, Texas (1984) and Faraway, so Close! (1993), and the biographical drama film An American Rhapsody (2001).
How old is Nastassja Kinski? – Age
Who are Nastassja Kinski Parents? – father and mother
The German actress was born as the daughter of renowned German actor Klaus Kinski and his second wife, actress Ruth Brigitte Tocki. Her parents divorced in 1968. After the age of 10, Kinski rarely saw her father. Her mother struggled financially to support them; they eventually lived in a commune in Munich.
Nastassja Kinski Siblings
The German actress is not the only child in their family. She has two half-siblings: Pola and Nikolai Kinski.
Is Nastassja Kinski in a Relationship?- Spouse
Yes, the German actress is in love. In 1997, she dated married producer Jonathan D. Krane during a brief separation from his wife, actress Sally Kellerman. Over the course of her career, Kinski has also been romantically linked with Paul Schrader, Jean-Jacques Beineix, Rob Lowe, Jon Voight, Gerard Depardieu, Dudley Moore, Milos Forman and Wim Wenders. As of 2012, she was dating actor Rick Yune.
Nastassja Kinski Children
The German actress has three children from different relationships. Her first child, son Aljosha Nakszynski (born 29 June 1984), was fathered by actor Vincent Spano, her co-star in Maria’s Lovers. On 10 September 1984, She married Egyptian filmmaker Ibrahim Moussa, with whom she had daughter Sonja Kinski (born 2 March 1986). The marriage was dissolved in July 1992. From 1992 until 1995, the actress lived with musician Quincy Jones, though she kept her own apartment on Hilgard Avenue, near UCLA, at the time. They had a daughter, Kenya Julia Niambi Sarah Jones (born 9 February 1993), a model known professionally as Kenya Kinski-Jones.
Nastassja Kinski Career
The German actress began working as a model as a teenager in Germany. Actress Lisa Kreuzer of the German New Wave helped get her the role of the mute Mignon in Wim Wenders 1975 film The Wrong Move, in which at the age of 13 she was depicted topless.
In 1976, while still a teenager, she had her first two major roles: in Wolfgang Petersen’s feature film-length episode Reifezeugnis of the German TV crime series Tatort. Next, she appeared in the British horror film To the Devil a Daughter (1976), produced by Hammer Film Productions, which was released in the UK just 40 days after Kinski’s fifteenth birthday.
In 1978, the actress starred in the Italian romance Stay as You Are with Marcello Mastroianni, gaining her recognition in the United States after New Line Cinema released it there in December 1979. The film also received a major international release from Columbia pictures.
In 1978, the actress underwent extensive preparation for the portrayal of an English peasant girl, which included acquiring a Dorset accent through elocution studies. In 1981, Richard Avedon photographed Kinski with a Burmese python coiled around her nude body. The image, which first appeared in the October 1981 issue of US Vogue, was released as a poster and became a best-seller, further confirming her status as a sex symbol.
In 1982, she starred in Francis Ford Coppola’s romantic musical One from the Heart, her first film made in the United States. The film failed at the box office and was a major loss for Coppola’s new Zoetrope studios. That year, she was also in the erotic horror movie Cat people. On December 29, 1982, the actress made a puzzling appearance on the program Late Night with David Letterman, seeming somewhat oblivious to the jokes and everything else that was going on around her and appearing with an unusual hair style.
The actress reteamed with Wenders for the 1984 film Paris, Texas. One of her most acclaimed films to date, it won the top award at the Cannes Film Festival. Throughout the 1980s, Kinski 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 United States.
During the 1990s, she appeared in a number of American films, including the action movie Terminal Velocity opposite Charlie Sheen, the Mike Figgis 1997 adultery tale One Night Stand, Your Friends & Neighbours (1998), John Landis’s Susan’s plan (1998), and The Lost son (1999).
Her most recent films include David Lynch’s Inland Empire (2006) and Rotimi Rainwater’s sugar (2013). In 2016, she competed in the German Let’s Dance show.
Nastassja Kinski Net worth
The German actress has an estimated net worth of around $20 million as of 2021.