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May 18, 2015 - 15 minThis is 'Nikolai Kinski - International Showreel' by Nikolai Kinski on Vimeo, the home for. Nikolai Kinski, son of actor Klaus Kinski, grew up watching dad play Dracula on screen in his most famous movie, the 1979 remake of F.W. Murnau's silent movie classic, 'Nosferatu.' Now Nikolai is carrying on the grand old family tradition, donning a cape and false teeth for Nosferatu, the Telluride Repertory Theatre.

Nanhoï Nikolai Kinski (born July 30, 1976) is a French-American film actor, who has also done work in television and on stage. He was born in Paris, and grew up in California. Currently residing in Berlin, he has acted primarily in American and German films, and speaks English, German, and French. He is a citizen of both the U.S. and France.

He is the only son of the German actor Klaus Kinski and his third wife, Minhoi Geneviève Loanic. He is the half-brother of actresses Pola Kinski and Nastassja Kinski.

Early life and education[edit]

Nikolai was born in 1976 in Paris, to German actor Klaus Kinski, and his third wife, Minhoi Geneviève Loanic, a model of 19 when they met, who was born in Vietnam and came with her family to France at the age of seven. His father had two older daughters, Pola Kinski and Nastassja Kinski, born in Germany to his first and second wives, respectively. He took his family to California, where Nikolai lived mostly with his mother after his parents divorced in 1979. He was never close to his half-sisters, who lived most of the time in Germany.

Acting career[edit]

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His father encouraged his interest in acting. Nikolai first had a role at the age of 13 alongside his father in the film Kinski Paganini (1989). In the mid-1990s, he entered the UCLA School of Theatre as a theatre major^[1] and graduated from there.

Afterward Kinski moved to Berlin, where he learned to speak German fluently. He has since starred in a number of German language films and TV series, in addition to American works. He starred in Æon Flux (2005) alongside Charlize Theron.

In 2006, he won the Romy Award as best newcomer.^[2]

Filmography[edit]

Notes[edit]

1. ^'Visiting UCLA', Nikolai Kinski website
2. ^Romy Award Winner, Nikolai Kinski website

External links[edit]

• Nikolai Kinski on IMDb

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