Nastassja Kinski

Nastassja Kinski
Nastassja Kinski in 2009
Born	Nastassja Aglaia Nakszynski (1961-01-24) 24 January 1961 (age 56) Berlin, Germany
Nationality	German
Occupation	Actress, model
Years active	1975–present
Spouse(s)	Ibrahim Moussa (m. 1984–92)
Partner(s)	Quincy Jones (1992–95)
Children	3
Parent(s)	Klaus Kinski Ruth Brigitte Tocki
Relatives	Pola Kinski (half sister) Nikolai Kinski (half-brother)

Nastassja Aglaia Kinski (born 24 January 1961) is a German actress and former model who has appeared in more than 60 films in Europe and the United States. She enjoyed her worldwide breakthrough with Stay As You Are (1978), 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 Cat People (1982), two Wim Wenders dramas; Paris, Texas (1984) and Faraway, So Close! (1993), and An American Rhapsody (2001). She is the daughter of the actor Klaus Kinski.

Kinski was born in Berlin as Nastassja Aglaia Nakszynski. She is the daughter of German actor Klaus Kinski and his wife, actress Ruth Brigitte Tocki. She is of Polish descent. Her family is Germanized ethnic Poles. Kinski has two half-siblings; Pola and Nikolai Kinski. 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.

In a 1999 interview, Kinski denied that her father had sexually molested her as a child, but said he had abused her "in other ways." In 2013, when interviewed about the allegations of sexual abuse made by her half-sister Pola Kinski, she confirmed that he tried with her, but did not succeed. She said:

Kinski 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 dumb Mignon in Wim Wenders film The Wrong Move, where at the age of 12 she was depicted topless.