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Nikolai Kinski

Actor | 1976 | German, American, French | Berlin

Personal Data

Languages: German (mother tongue), English (mother tongue), French (fluent), Spanish (basics)

Residence: Berlin

Place of birth: Paris

Nationality: German, American, French

Height: 1.78m (5' 10“)

Hair: dark brown

Eyes: brown

Training: UCLA School of Theatre, Bachelor of Fine Arts, 1994-1998

Dialects: american dialects from: California, East Coast, Midwest, New York, West Coast. English dialects from: Jersey, London,

Accents: Dutch, East European, English-Standard, French, German, Israeli, Italian, Middle Eastern, Persian, Russian, Scandinavian, Spanish, Swiss-German

Pitch of the voice: Tenor

Musical instruments: Guitar (high level), Piano (high level), Singing: a cappella, Chanson, Jazz, Musical, Oldies, Pop, Punk, Rock, Soul

Dance: basics

Sports: Aikido, horseback riding, Skateboard, Snowboard

Driving licence: car (B)

Feature | Television

2023 | Traumnovelle | Studio Babelsberg | feature film | Director: Florian Frerichs

2020 | Adieu Monsieur Haffmann | Vendôme Production | feature film | Director: Fred Cavayé

2019 | Plan A (WT) | Getaway Pictures | feature film | Director: Yoav Paz

2016 | The Loner | Black Light District | feature film | Director: Daniel Grove

2015 | 1915 | Strongman Productions | feature film | Director: Garin Hovannisian, Alex Mouhibian

2014 | Yves Saint Laurent | The Weinstein Company | feature film | Director: Jalil Lespert

2014 | Posthumous | Flying Box Productions | feature film | Director: Lulu Wang

2014 | Die innere Zone | Tre Valli Filmproduktion | feature film | Director: Fosco Dubini

2013 | Alex | Warnuts Entertainment | feature film | Director: Florian Frerichs

2010 | Der Kuss | DFFB | short | Director: Matthew Branning, Bjoern Ruehmann

2010 | The Apologies | Possible Films | short | Director: Hal Hartley

2009 | Long Distance Call | DFFB | short | Director: Grzegorz Muskala

2009 | Kalter Hund | Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg | short | Director: Anna Porzelt

2009 | The Countess | X Filme Creative Pool | feature film | Director: Julie Delpy

2009 | Naked | St. Pauli-Theatre Hamburg | theatre | Director: Peter Zadek

2009 | Krupp - Eine deutsche Familie | MOOVIE | TV movie | Director: Carlo Rola

2008 | The Lonely Way | Schauspielhaus Bochum | theatre | Director: Armin Holz

2006 | Fay Grim | This Is That Productions | feature film | Director: Hal Hartley

2006 | Lemniskate | HfbK Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg | short | Director: Anna Bederke

2005 | Klimt | Epo-Film | feature film | Director: Raoúl

2005 | Nichts geht mehr | Filmuniversität Babelsberg | short | Director: Andreas Schaap

2002 | Dirty Sky | Carpe Diem | feature film | Director: Claude-Oliver Rudolph

2002 | Der Teufel, der sich Gott nannte | CCC Filmkunst | feature film | Director: Dmitri Astrachan

2002 | Never Get Outta the Boat | Blow Up Pictures, Lot 47 Films | feature film | Director: Paul Quinn

2002 | Babyboy | Kinski Productions | feature film | Director: Michael Dreher, Peter Geyer

2002 | My Husband's Son | Dektor Films | short | Director: Eugene Yelchin

2001 | Tortilla Soup | Starz Encore Entertainment | feature film | Director: María Ripoll

2001 | The Bakkai | Here Performance Space, New York | theatre | Director: Rene Migliaccio

2000 | Nosferatu | Here Performance Space, New York | theatre | Director: Rene Migliacci

2000 | Recessions | UCSC Film school | short | Director: Robbie Stauder

1998 | West Coast | West Coast Films | feature film | Director: Joshua Davis

1998 | Muddy Water Blues | UCLA Film school | short | Director: Logan Hale

1994 | Jamila | Triangle Film | feature film | Director: Monica Teuber

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Nikolai Kinski was born in France and grew up in the United States. He made his film debut at the age of 11 in Klaus Kinski’s final film “Paganini”.

Kinski studied Theater at UCLA, and went on to act in American independent films (“Tortilla Soup”) and off-Broadway productions in NYC in the early 00’s. In 2004, he moved to Berlin where he became fluent in German and has acted in a wide range of European art house films such as Raoul Ruiz’s “Klimt”, playing Egon Schiele opposite John Malkovich (for which he won the Austrian Romy Award), Hal Hartley’s “Fay Grim”, “The Two Lives of Daniel Shore” and as Karl Lagerfeld in “Yves Saint Laurent”, in addition to studio films (“Aeon Flux”, “Point Break”) and numerous European TV films and mini-series (“Krupp”, “The Sinking of the Laconia”, “Der Mordanschlag”).

Kinski has also starred in various stage productions in Germany including Pirendello’s “Naked” directed by Theater legend Peter Zadek and Schnitzler’s “The Lonely Way” at Schauspielhaus Bochum.

Current film work includes Netflix biopic “Gore” in which he plays Rudolf Nureyev, episodic film “Berlin, I love you” and the german period film “Traumfabrik” shot on location at Studio Babelsberg. He recently completed the first season of highly anticipated new german TV series “Dead End” and is presently shooting the 3rd season of US television series “Berlin Station” as a series regular.

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