Nastassja Kinski (born Nastassja Aglaia Nakszyński, 24 January 1961) is a German actress.
Born in Berlin, Kinski is the daughter of the 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.They eventually 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 1976 she had her first major role in the feature film length and Wolfgang Petersen directed episode Reifezeugnis of the German TV crime series Tatort. Also in 1976, in her mid-teens, she starred in the British Hammer Film Productions' horror film To the Devil a Daughter.
Kinski starred in the erotic film Stay as you are 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."
At 15 Kinski began a romantic relationship with director Roman Polanski. Polanski urged her to study acting with Lee Strasberg in the United States and cast her in his film, Tess. In 1981, photographer Richard Avedon photographed Kinski with a serpent coiled around her naked body.
In 1982 Kinski appeared 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, a critical and commercial failure. Critics praised her in Paris, Texas, which won awards at Cannes; In the U.S., however, the film was not widely released. Kinski then split her time between Europe and the United States, making Moon in the Gutter, Harem and Torrents of Spring in the former, and Exposed, Maria's Lovers and Revolution 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 filmmaker Ibrahim Moussa. They married on 10 September 1984. They raised a son Aljosha (born 29 June 1984) and daughter Sonja Leila, now a model (born 2 March 1986). The marriage was dissolved in 1992. From 1991 until 1997 Kinski lived with musician Quincy Jones. On 9 February 1993, their daughter, Kenya Julia Miambi Sara, was born.
Kinski speaks German, French, English, Italian and Russian fluently. She is a vegetarian and suffers from mild narcolepsy.