Nastassja Kinski

Nastassja Kinski is a German actress and former model whose screen work spans more than 60 films made in Europe and the United States. Born in West Berlin, she started as a teenage model in Germany and received an early role in Wim Wenders's Wrong Move (1975). She gained recognition in the Italian romance Stay as You Are (1978) opposite Marcello Mastroianni, then became internationally known for her Golden Globe-winning title performance in Roman Polanski's Tess (1979), which earned six Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, and won three. Her later films include Francis Ford Coppola's One from the Heart (1981), Paul Schrader's Cat People (1982), Wenders's Paris, Texas (1984), The Hotel New Hampshire (1984), Terminal Velocity (1994), One Night Stand (1997), Your Friends & Neighbors (1998), and An American Rhapsody (2001). She also appeared in Faraway, So Close! (1993) and Dark Satellites (2022). Her other honors include two Deutscher Filmpreis Awards and a Bambi.