Nikolai Kinski
Nanhoï Nikolai Kinski (born July 30, 1976 in Paris ) is an actor with French and US citizenship who lives in Berlin . Until his late naturalization in the USA , he carried his father's maiden name, Nakszynski. His parents are the Vietnamese model Minhoï Geneviève Loanic and the German actor Klaus Kinski , his half-sisters are Nastassja Kinski and Pola Kinski .
Live and act
Nikolai Kinski's mother is a French model of Vietnamese origin. His parents met in Rome in 1969 . After moving to Paris, they married in 1971, where Nikolai was born. In 1979 his parents divorced. Mother and son first traveled around the world and in 1981 they settled with their mother's new partner in Lagunitas-Forest Knolls , California. Shortly afterwards, Klaus Kinski also moved there so that he could be near his son.
At the age of eleven, Nikolai came into contact with acting when he was the son of his father and his then partner Debora Caprioglio in Klaus Kinski's last film Kinski Paganini . In 1994 Nikolai moved to Los Angeles to study acting at UCLA . He graduated in 1998 with a Bachelor in Acting . In 2000 he started working in New York theater and made his debut in the role of Nosferatu .
In autumn 2001 Nikolai Kinski made his first trip to his father's home in Germany. Two years later he moved to Berlin and learned German . In the following years he worked in German television productions and in international films .
In 2006, Nikolai Kinski performed some of Klaus Kinski's poems publicly for the first time at the Frankfurt Book Fair . With the text composition Kinski speaks Kinski: Fever - Diary of a leper he returned to the stage. In 2009 Nikolai Kinski was seen in the role of Arndt von Bohlen and Halbach in the three-part television series Krupp - A German Family . He also plays the lead role in the feature film The Double Life of Daniel Shore by Michael Dreher , of the Hof Film Festival in 2009 its premiere had.
In 2009, Kinski appeared in a music video by the group MIA, designed by Carola Schmidt and Claudia Rohrmoser . for a remix version of the title my friend up.
In 2014 he presented the interactive documentary web series netwars , which deals with a possible cyber war .
In his private life, Nikolai Kinski is the longtime partner of the German actress and singer Ina Paule Klink .
Filmography (selection)
- 1989: Kinski Paganini
- 1994: Jamila
- 2000: Recessions (short film)
- 2000: West Coast
- 2001: Tortilla Soup - The Spice of Life (Tortilla Soup)
- 2002: Never Get Outta the Boat
- 2002: The Devil Who Called Himself God
- 2003: Dirty Sky
- 2003: Connecting Dots
- 2004: Unfaithful (TV movie)
- 2005: Crime scene: Vengeance Angel
- 2005: No Heaven Over Africa (TV movie)
- 2005: Lemniscate (short film)
- 2006: Rohtenburg
- 2006: Klimt
- 2006: Æon Flux
- 2006: Nothing works anymore (short film)
- 2006: Fay Grim
- 2008: Giants (TV series, episode Humboldt - Call of the Green Hell )
- 2008: The Secret Adventures of the Projectionist (short film)
- 2009: Krupp - A German Family (three-part TV series)
- 2009: The Countess
- 2009: The Two Lives of Daniel Shore
- 2009: SOKO Danube - evil magic
- 2009: Planet (short film)
- 2010: Laconia (two-part TV series)
- 2010: Cold Dog (short film)
- 2011: SOKO Stuttgart - The Bassoon of Death
- 2012: Commissioner Stolberg - Deadly Network
- 2012: Her name was Maria (Maria di Nazaret) (two-part TV series)
- 2012: Belle de Lyon (short film)
- 2012: Alex (short film)
- 2012: Mission in Hamburg - murder on board
- 2013: The woman behind the wall
- 2014: Yves Saint Laurent
- 2014: Coast Guard - Ehler's big decision
- 2014: The Inner Zone
- 2014: Götz von Berlichingen
- 2014: Off the track - adrenaline
- 2014: Binny and the Ghost - The Art Theft
- 2015: The Ladder to Heaven (two-part TV series)
- 2015: 1915
- 2015: Point Break
- 2016: The Loner
- 2017: Axolotl Overkill
- 2017: The Yellow Birds
- 2017: North North Murder - Clüver and the wild night
- 2017: SOKO Stuttgart - Lots of love
- 2017: Wilsberg - every year again
- 2018: Tatort - Murder Ex Machina
- 2018: Helen Dorn - Shadow of the Past
- 2018: a summer in Vietnam
- 2018: The Assassination (TV two-part series)
- 2018: Berlin Station (TV series)
- 2019: Dead End (ZDF series)
- 2019: dream factory
Theater roles
- 2007: Arthur Schnitzler - The lonely way , Schauspielhaus Bochum
- 2008: Luigi Pirandello - Naked , St. Pauli Theater , director: Peter Zadek
Awards
- Romy 2006: Winner of the Audience Award in the Most Popular Male Shooting Star category
Discography
- Self-incriminations (Nikolai Kinski and Mieze Katz speak Peter Handke , 2005)
- Fever - diary of a leper (Nikolai Kinski speaks poems of his father Klaus Kinski, 2007)
Web links
- Nikolai Kinski in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website of Nikolai Kinski
- Agency profile at the Spielkind agency, accessed on July 28, 2020
- Christine Dössel: Kinski can't die Portrait in the Süddeutsche Zeitung , December 17, 2008
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SURNAME | Kinski, Nikolai |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kinski, Nanhoï Nikolai (full name); Nakszynski, Nanhoï Nikolai (maiden name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | US-American actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 30, 1976 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris , France |