The daughter of the German actor Klaus Kinski, she published her autobiography in 2013. Born Pola Nakszynski, she is the daughter of Klaus Kinski, who became a renowned German actor, and his first wife, the singer Gislinde Kühlbeck. After her father changed his surname to Kinski, it was changed for his children as well.
Her mother remarried to Herbert Kuhlbeck.
Her father remarried twice and had a child with each of his wives.
Pola is the half sister of Nastassja Kinski, an actress, and Nikolai Kinski, an actor. They barely saw each other while growing up. She claimed in her biography, Kindermund (2013) (English: The Mouth of a Child), to have been sexually abused by her father between the ages of 5 and 19.
Because she has freed her heart, her soul, and thus their future from the burden of the mystery." In the early 1970s, Kinski studied acting at the Otto-Falckenberg-Schule in Munich.
In addition to gaining early film roles, she acted at the Schauspielhaus Bochum and the Deutschen Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. In the 1970s she worked with Peter Zadek and the director Ivan Nagel.
From 1977 onwards, Kinski worked as a freelance actor in German-language productions. She lived in Berlin and Paris.
She has also appeared in several television films, including some produced in the early 2000s.
