Biography for Nastassja Kinski
Nastassja Kinski as Irena
This is an interesting interpretation of the original, using the same themes of repressed emotions and sexuality and taking it to the next level. Nastassja Kinski is a young woman, newly come to America to live with her older brother, Malcolm McDowell. What she doesn't know is that she and her brother are the results of incest (parents were brother and sister) and, as if that wasn't bad enough, descended from a long line of inbreeding shapeshifters. It seems that the members of her truly twisted family can only mate with each other. To do otherwise causes them to transform into vicious black panthers, which must kill to regain their human shape. Set in New Orleans with dreamy flashbacks to a mysterious desert land of red skies and massive bare trees draped with exotic panthers, Cat People is visually stunning. Haunting and moody, it moves at the pace of a dream that gradually turns into a nightmare. It doesn't lack for good performances either. Nastassja Kinski is flawless; sultry, vicious, frightened and innocent all at once. Her scenes with her transformed brother/wild panther, are absolutely hypnotic as the two beautiful creatures lock eyes and blood flows. Malcolm McDowell is perfect as her perverted brother, casually menacing and always bestial, killing with barely a shrug and raging as the transformation overtakes him.
Biography for Nastassja Kinski
Birth name
Nastassja Nakszynski
Date of birth
24 January 1961
Berlin, Germany
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Trivia
Has a daughter and a son with Ibrahim Moussa and a daughter with Quincy Jones.
Is fluent in English, German, French, Italian and Russian.
Is a vegetarian.
Daughter of Klaus Kinski.
Nastassja Kinski spent some days in a German prison when a sin of youth caught up with her. She had used public transportation several times without paying, did not pay the fines, did not work in a hospital as she was sentenced to do by a juvenile court... In 1978 she was finally arrested. She spent 5 days in prison despite being already a celebrity at that time. After 5 days she was released early because of good conduct.
Shared an apartment with Demi Moore in the early 80s.
Some sources show she was born in 1959, but she claims 1961.
Prevented her ex-husband, Ibrahim Moussa, from having their son, Aljosha Kinski, circumcised when he turned 14 years-old in 1998.
Daughter Sonja Moussa was born in 1986.
Is of Slavic (Polish) origin.
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Personal quotes
"The years went by so fast and, even though I've had children, which makes me feel I've lived a long time, I feel I didn't really grow up. I want to fulfill the desire I have to do things that are beautiful and meaningful."
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Biography from Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia:
The daughter of actor Klaus Kinski, this slender, pouty brunette made a bid for stardom in the early 1980s after receiving considerable attention in the title role of Tess (1979), directed by Roman Polanski. But aside from a few noteworthy leads-in Cat People (1982), Unfaithfully Yours and Paris, Texas (both 1984)- she failed to get the meaty roles that would have sustained her as a box-office draw. She's better known for her wellpublicized offscreen antics, and for a striking poster in which she posed with a snake wrapped around her! She has one child with composer/producer Quincy Jones.
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Links:
"La Femme Musketeer" (2004) (mini) TV Series .... Lady Bolton
� ton image (2004) .... Mathilde
"Liaisons dangereuses, Les" (2003) (mini) TV Series .... Madame Maria de Tourvel
... aka Dangerous Liaisons (USA)
Paradise Found (2003) .... Mette Gauguin
.com for Murder (2001) .... Sondra Brummel
All Around the Town (2001)
Beyond City Limits (2001)
Paradise Found (2001) .... Mette Gauguin
Say Nothing (2001) .... Grace Needham
Day the World Ended, The (2001) (TV) .... Dr. Jennifer Stillman
Diary of a Sex Addict (2001) .... Bordeaux
American Rhapsody, An (2001) .... Margit
Town & Country (2001) .... Alex
Blind Terror (2001) (TV) .... Susan
Cold Heart (2001) .... Linda
Claim, The (2000) .... Elena Burn/Elena Dillon
... aka Ma�tre de Kingdom Come, Le (2000) (Canada: French title)
... aka R�demption (2001) (France)
Time Share (2000) .... Julia
... aka Bitter Suite (2000) (UK)
Red Letters (2000) .... Lydia Davis
Magic of Marciano, The (2000) .... Katie
Storm in Summer, A (2000) (TV) .... Gloria Ross
Quarantine (1999) (TV) .... Galen Bronty
Intruder, The (1999/I) .... Badge Muller
Lost Son, The (1999) .... Deborah Spitz
Ciro norte (1998)
Playing by Heart (1998) .... Melanie
Susan's Plan (1998) .... Susan Holland
... aka Dying to Get Rich (2000) (USA: video title)
Your Friends & Neighbors (1998) .... Cheri
Savior (1998) (as Nastassia Kinski) .... Maria
Little Boy Blue (1997) .... Kate West
Bella Mafia (1997) (TV) .... Sophia Luciano
One Night Stand (1997) .... Karen
Fathers' Day (1997) .... Collette Andrews
"Great War, The" (1996/I) (mini) TV Series (voice) .... Rosa Luxemburg
... aka "Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century, The" (1996) (mini)
Ring, The (1996/I) (TV) .... Ariana von Gotthard
... aka Danielle Steel's 'The Ring' (1996) (TV)
Somebody Is Waiting (1996) .... Charlotte Ellis
Crackerjack (1994) .... Katia Koslovska (K.C.)
Terminal Velocity (1994) .... Chris Morrow
In weiter Ferne, so nah! (1993) .... Raphaela
... aka Faraway, So Close! (1993) (USA)
Bionda, La (1992) .... Christine
... aka Blonde, The (1992)
Envers du d�cor: Portrait de Pierre Guffroy, L' (1992)
... aka Behind the Scenes: A Portrait of Pierre Guffroy (1992)
In camera mia (1992) .... Nastienka
Unizhennye i oskorblyonnye (1991) (as Anastasiya Kinski) .... Natasha
... aka Insulted and the Injured, The (1991)
... aka Umiliati e offesi (1991) (Italy)
Alba, L' (1990) .... Karin
... aka Dawn (1990)
Segreto, Il (1990) .... Lucia
... aka Secret, The (1990/I)
Sole anche di notte, Il (1990) .... Cristina
... aka Night Sun (1990)
... aka Soleil m�me la nuit, Le (1990) (France)
... aka Sunshine Even by Night (1990)
In una notte di chiaro di luna (1989) .... Jo�lle
... aka As Long as It's Love (1989)
... aka Clair (1997) (France)
... aka Crystal or Ash, Fire or Wind, as Long as It's Love (1989)
... aka On a Moonlit Night (1989)
Magdalene (1989) .... Magdalene
... aka Silent Night (1989)
Acque di primavera (1989) .... Maria
... aka Eaux printani�res, Les (1989) (France)
... aka Torrents of Spring (1990) (USA)
Maladie d'amour (1987) .... Juliette
... aka Malady of Love (1987) (International: English title)
Revolution (1985) .... Daisy McConnahay
Harem (1985) .... Diane
Maria's Lovers (1984) .... Maria Bosic
Paris, Texas (1984) .... Jane
Unfaithfully Yours (1984) .... Daniella Eastman
Hotel New Hampshire, The (1984) .... Susie the Bear
Exposed (1983) .... Elizabeth Carlson
Lune dans le caniveau, La (1983) .... Loretta
... aka Moon in the Gutter, The (1983) (USA)
... aka Specchio del desiderio, Lo (1983) (Italy)
Fr�hlingssinfonie (1983) .... Clara Wieck
... aka Spring Symphony (1983)
Cat People (1982) .... Irena Gallier
One from the Heart (1982) .... Leila
Tess (1979) .... Tess Durbeyfield
Cos� come sei (1978) .... Francesca
... aka As� como eres (1978) (Spain)
... aka Stay as You Are (1978) (USA)
... aka Stay the Way You Are (1978)
Leidenschaftliche Bl�mchen (1978) .... Deborah Collins
... aka Boarding School (1978)
... aka Passion Flower Hotel (1978)
... aka Preppy School Girls (1978) (USA: video title)
... aka Virgin Campus (1978)
Tatort - Reifezeugnis (1977) (TV) .... Sina Wolf
... aka For Your Love Only (1977) (TV) (USA)
To the Devil a Daughter (1976) .... Catherine
... aka Braut des Satans, Die (1976) (West Germany)
... aka Child of Satan (1976) (USA: video title)
Falsche Bewegung (1974) (as Nastassja Nakszynski) .... Mignon
... aka False Movement (1974)
... aka Wrong Move, The (1974) (UK)
... aka Wrong Movement, The (1974) (USA: video title)
Producer
Time Share (2000) (co-producer)
... aka Bitter Suite (UK)
... aka Time Share (Germany: DVD title)
... aka Time Share - Doppelpack im Ferienhaus (Germany: TV title)
... aka Timeshare (Germany)
