Nastassja Kinski

• Birthplace: Berlin, Germany
• Birthday: January 24, 1960

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 h…more