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Nastassja Kinski

Actress

Poland, Germany

Nastassja Kinski is a Polish-German actress who has starred in over 60 films, in Europe and the United States. Nastassja began her career at a young age working with acclaimed directors Wim Wenders and Wolfgang Petersen.

Nastassja became known to a wide international audience with her interpretation of the main character of Roman Polanski's "Tess", nominated 7 times for the Academy Awards, winning 3 Oscars, as well as the César for best film.

Her filmography includes several notable credits as "One from the heart" by Francis Ford Coppola, "Paris Texas" by Wim Wenders, Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, "Your friends and neighbors" by Neil LaBute and "the Claim", among others.

While 'Tess' and 'Paris Texas' are the two films for which she is best known, the variety of films that have followed, whether period films or modern in our time, show the range of her acting talents as well as its wide range of languages, English, German, French or Italian.

Recently, Nastassja has been seen playing alongside Martina Gedeck ("The Lives of Others") in Thomas Stuber's feature "Dark Satellites", three intertwined stories by author Clemens Meyer, as well as in Gabriel Aghion's "Police de Caractères" TV series.

Nastassja is currently recording a voice in Netflix's dark fantasy animated series "Castlevania".