Nikolai Kinski

Nikolai Kinski Nanhoï ( born July 30, 1976 in Paris ) is a French actor and American citizenship, who lives in Berlin. Until his late naturalization in the U.S., he bore the maiden name of his father, Nakszynski. His parents are originally from Vietnam Model Minhoï Geneviève Loanic and the actor Klaus Kinski, his half-sisters are Nastassja Kinski and Pola Kinski.

Life and work

Nikolai Kinski's mother was a French model of Vietnamese origin. His parents met in 1969 in Rome know. After moving to Paris, she married in 1971, where Nicholas was born. In 1979, his parents divorced. Mother and son traveled first through the world, leaving in 1981 when new partner of the mother in Lagunitas -Forest Knolls, California, down. Shortly after, Klaus Kinski moved there to be near his son can.

Even as a 11 -year-old Nikolai came with acting in touch, as he worked on his father's side and his then girlfriend Debora Caprioglio Klaus Kinski in Kinski Paganini 's last film as a film Son 1987. 1994 Nikolai moved to Los Angeles to study acting at UCLA. He graduated in 1998 with a Bachelor in Acting. In 2000 he started to work in New York at the theater and debuted in the role of Nosferatu.

In autumn 2001, Nikolai Kinski undertook a first extended trip in the German home of his father. Fascinated by the culture he moved two years later to Berlin and learned German. In the following years he worked both in German television productions as well as in international cinema films.

2006 was Nikolai Kinski at the Frankfurt Book Fair for the first time some of Klaus Kinski's poems in public before. With the merger of the text speaks Kinski Kinski: Fever - Diary of a leper, he returned to the stage. 2009 Nikolai Kinski was in the role of Arndt von Bohlen und Halbach in the television three-part Krupp - To see a German family. He also plays the lead role in the feature film The Double Life of Daniel Shore by Michael Dreher, who at the Hof Film Days 2009 had its world premiere.

2009 Kinski appeared in a designed by Carola Schmidt and Claudia Rohrmoser Music Video of MIA group. for a remix version of the title to my friend.

Filmography (selection)

Theater roles

• 2007: Arthur Schnitzler - The Lonely Way, Schauspielhaus Bochum
• 2008: Luigi Pirandello - Naked, St. Pauli Theater, directed by Peter Zadek

Awards

• Romy 2006: The winner of the audience award in the category Most Popular Male Shooting Star

Discography

• Self-incrimination ( Nikolai Kinski and Kitty talk Peter Handke ) (2005 )
• Fever - Diary of a leper ( Nikolai Kinski speaks poems of his father Klaus Kinski ) (2007 )