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Nastassja Kinski
Nastassja Aglaia Kinski is a German actress and former model. She has appeared in more than 60 films in Europe and the United States. Her worldwide breakthrough was with Stay as You Are (1978). Kinski then came to global prominence with her Golden Globe Award-winning performance as the title character in the Roman Polanski-directed film Tess (1979). Her other films include the Francis Ford Coppola…
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entertainment · German actress (born 1961) · model · film actor · voice actor · actor · also Nastassja Kinski, Nastassja Aglaia Nakszynski, Nastassja Aglaia Kinski, Kinski
Born 24 January 1961 · Q76711
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2026· 6 entries
Yahoo: Wenders cuts scene with nude 13-year-old Nastassja Kinski from film
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Public attention spiked: 25,308 Wikipedia readers in one day, 10.1× the usual 2,504, with 9 article edits. Coverage that week: “Wim Wenders withdraws 1975 film ‘Wrong Move’ featuring topless 13-year-old Nastassja Kinski” (Yahoo).
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Yahoo: Wim Wenders withdraws 1975 film ‘Wrong Move’ featuring topless 13-year-old Nastassja Kinski
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2025· 1 entry
Moviefone: Nastassja Kinski, une vie à soi
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2016· 1 entry
Competed in the German Let's Dance show
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2013· 6 entries
scmp.com: My father tried to rape me too, says Nastassja Kinski
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Yahoo Movies UK: Nastassja Kinski says "tyrant" father tried to abuse her
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Couriermail: Nastassja Kinski shocked by sister's abuse
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The Daily Telegraph: Nastassja Kinski praises half-sister for Klaus Kinski abuse claims
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BBC: Nastassja Kinski praises sister for reporting sex abuse
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When interviewed about the allegations of sexual abuse made by her half-sister Pola Kinski, she confirmed that he attempted this with her, but did not succeed
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2001· 7 entries
“My father loved us so much, but he's the kind of person that chokes you. He doesn't leave you your own pleasures. If you think or feel one way and he feels the other way, he won't accept it. My mother wanted to work. People wanted her to do movies, but he just wanted her to be at home, be a mother, be a wife, be this Venus, this planet he could land on anytime.”
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“A thriller is supposed to thrill you! So it's the plotting of the movie and the unveiling of the story which is important.”
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“With the passage of time, I guess my priorities have changed and so have the parameters on the basis of which I decide to do a film. Today I look for a lot more mature roles, with a lot of substance. I want to do different things, or rather -- things differently.”
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“For everything that you do, there are people who appreciate your work and then there are those who don't. I think very few people have the guts to be sure of what they are doing, believe in it, and then go ahead and do it, irrespective of what people think.”
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Kinski stated in an interview in The Daily Telegraph that she was affected by the sleep disorder narcolepsy
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“If I were an animal, I would be a fish or a bird. It's the peace and beauty of ocean, the silent language of it. It seems like a womb, protective. The sky too. I love all colors, but blue mainly, because it's transparent like the water and the sky.”
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“Nudity in a picture is such a delicate thing, and it is so rarely right. But it can be right if it's done by people with beautiful vision and if it becomes part of the melody of the situation. The body, after all, is a beautiful and secret thing.”
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1999· 1 entry
She was young and we had a love affair." However, in a 1999 interview in The Guardian, Kinski was quoted as saying that there was no affair and that "there was a flirtation.
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1997· 2 entries
Kinski dated married producer Jonathan D
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In 1997, Kinski dated married producer Jonathan D.
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1994· 1 entry
Polanski confirmed the relationship in a 1994 interview with Diane Sawyer: "...what about Nastassja Kinski?
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1982· 1 entry
Starred in Francis Ford Coppola's romantic musical One from the Heart, her first film made in the United States
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1981· 1 entry
Won Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress for Tess (1981).
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1978· 3 entries
Kinski underwent extensive preparation for the portrayal of an English peasant girl, which included acquiring a Dorset accent through elocution studies:
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Kinski starred in the Italian romance Stay as You Are (Così come sei) with Marcello Mastroianni, gaining her recognition in the United States after New Line Cinema released it there in December 1979
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“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.”
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1976· 2 entries
When Kinski was aged 15, it was speculated that there had been a romantic relationship with director Roman Polanski, who at the time was 43
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While still a teenager, Kinski had her first two major roles
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1961· 1 entry
Born 1961-01-24.
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