This strikingly attractive lead, with pouty lips and a slightly haughty manner, is best known for her performance in the title role in Roman Polanski s sumptuous Tess (1979) as well as for her screen collaborations with Wim Wenders: a silent role in Falsche Bewegung/Wrong Move (1975); the estranged wife of Harry Dean Stanton (her most affecting performance to date) in Paris, Texas (1984); and an angelic presence in Faraway, So Close (1993).
The daughter of actor Klaus Kinski (with whom she had little contact after the age of 10) and sister of actress Pola Kinski, Nastassja (billed as Nastassia in the USA in the early 80s) was a teenager when she met and fell in love with director Roman Polanski, 25 years her senior. Under his spell, she went to the USA for six months to study The Method with Lee Strasberg.
Then, Polanski put Kinski in her star-making role, of Tess . In the film based on the Thomas Hardy novel Tess of the D Urbervilles , Kinski played a girl from a poor background whose fortunes rise and fall after she is thrust into polite society. The film established her and she furthered raised her profile by posing for photographer Richard Avedon, who shot a nude poster of the actress and a snake that became the rage of college dorm rooms.
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