Christa Päffgen (16 October 1938 – 18 July 1988), known by her stage name Nico, was a German singer, songwriter, actress and model. She had roles in several films, including Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita (1960) and Andy Warhol’s Chelsea Girls (1966). Reviewer Richard Goldstein describes Nico as “half goddess, half icicle” and writes that her distinctive voice “sounds something like a cello getting up in the morning”.
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Nico Biography / Wiki
| Name | Nico |
| Also Know | Krista Nico, Christa Päffgen, Nico Otzak |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Cologne, Germany |
| Date of Birth | October 16, 1938 |
| Age(as in 2023 Feb) | 49 |
| Deathday | 1988-07-18 |
Nico Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Strip-Tease | Ariane, la danseuse Allemande | 1963-05-29 | Strip-tease has a pleasing Paris setting and a convincing strip club atmosphere, where a roster of exotic dancers do their thing. Making the club atmo… |
| Sausalito | Herself | 1967-01-01 | Scenes of Sausalito, California, including boats, the docks, and streets. Eventually, the setting turns to night and boats appear silhouetted against … |
| The Cradle of Crystal | 1976-05-18 | An androgynous poet/dreamer sits and writes and meditates on the aching void that is her life…. | |
| The Inner Scar | The Woman | 1972-02-02 | A composition of symbolic, surreal and almost mystic images…. |
| Jeanetta Cochrane | 1967-01-01 | More consciously experimental than Whitehead’s other works, this film draws on a variety of sources, including sequences of London shot while Whitehea… | |
| Athanor | 1972-07-14 | Athanor (Nico) is searching for fire. A flame is always at the foreground. Nico naked in tombs, looking at herself in circular mirrors, Nico in castle… | |
| An Angel Passes | 1975-04-23 | Nico is an ethereal poet haunting the gaps between scenes of Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Bulle Ogier, Laurent Terzieff, and Garrel’s father, Maurice, discus… | |
| Screen Test: Nico | Herself | 1966-01-01 | Andy directs Nico for a screen test…. |
| Nico: An Underground Experience + Heroine | 2000-07-25 | … | |
| Sunset | Poet (voice) | 1967-04-07 | A rare, unfinished film by Andy Warhol, Sunset is a meditation on the temporality of an everyday phenomenon. Here, a sunset over the Pacific Ocean in … |
| The Blue of the Origins | 1979-02-21 | A survival, silent black & white film shot with a hand camera, a journey into Philippe Garrel’s intimate family album featuring the two women who coun… | |
| Nico Icon | Herself | 1995-02-18 | A look into the many lives of Christa Päffgen, otherwise known as Nico; from cutie German mädchen to the first of the supermodels, to glamorous diva… |
| The Closet | The Woman | 1966-01-01 | A man and a woman live in a clothes-cabinet, literally; they contemplate leaving, but never do. For a time only their voices are heard, until they try… |
| Nico: In Memoriam | 1989-01-01 | “Not a documentary but the the ruins of an attempted documentary.” – Grashina Gabelmann… | |
| Screen Test: Nico (Hershey) | Nico | 1966-12-07 | Nico, in a pseudo ‘commercial’, holds a large, partially unwrapped Hershey bar to her chin, with the labelling upside down; the camera remains sta… |
| Nico | Herself | A color sound meditation on the erstwhile Warhol superstar…. | |
| Nico/Nico Crying | Self | 1966-09-01 | A portrait of the ultimate Chelsea Girl. Nico sits for over an hour while dazzling colored lights and psychedelic-patterned slides are projected onto … |
| Nico: Evening of Light | 1969-12-01 | Shot as a proposed short film behind Iggy Pop’s Ann Arbor, MI estate and summarily rejected by Elektra Records as promotional material for Nico’s 1968… | |
| All Tomorrow’s Parties: Nico Live | 2006-04-24 | After fighting a hard-core drug habit for most of her life, Christa Päffgen aka Nico — the striking European supermodel who sat in as an occasional … | |
| The High Solitudes | 1974-12-15 | Garrel convinced Jean Seberg, in the midst of a long struggle with mental illness, alcohol and drug, to “star†in this silent document of her dail… | |
| La vraie histoire de Gérard Lechômeur | The heroine | 1982-04-24 | … |
| The Velvet Underground Tarot Cards | Herself | 1966-08-01 | Documents each member of The Velvet Underground having their cards read at a big apartment party. The tarot reader is continually interrupted in her r… |
| Salvador Dalà | Herself | 1966-01-01 | Salvador Dalà is a 35-minute film directed by Andy Warhol. The film features surrealist artist Salvador Dalà visiting The Factory and meeting the ro… |
| 65 Revisited | Self (archive footage) | 2007-11-28 | A collection of rare outtakes and performances from Pennebaker’s 1965 documentary Don’t Look Back…. |
| The Velvet Underground and Nico: A Symphony of Sound | Herself | 1966-02-08 | The film depicts a rehearsal of The Velvet Underground including Nico, and is essentially one long loose improvisation…. |
| Journey to the Garden of the Dead | Catherine | 1978-02-08 | Love between Georges and Hypolyte has faded. George confides in Catherine that he is still obsessed with Hypolyte. He wishes that she was a virgin but… |
| Home Movie : New York | 1968-01-01 | Jackie Raynal and Tina Aumont in Central Park. Seen from an apartment, from a car, Nico at the window above Tina Aumont. Jackie Raynal, pregnant, gets… | |
| I, a Man | Herself | 1967-08-24 | Morrissey and Warhol’s commercial take on the Swedish film I, A Woman. Somebody suggested to Warhol that they wanted a sexploitation film in the vein … |
| Cleopatra | 1970-07-30 | Cleopatra situates itself in the same relationship to Hollywood as the Warhol/Morrisey films of the period. It corresponds to Joseph Mankiewicz’s 1963… | |
| Imitation of Christ | Maid | 1967-11-01 | Warhol’s Factory visits Los Angeles…. |
| Curious: The Velvet Underground in Europe | Self (archive footage) | 1993-12-01 | Spotlights the Velvet Underground’s 1993 reunion tour of Europe, interspersing footage of the band’s Paris concert and interviews with the members of … |
| Chelsea Hotel | 1981-01-03 | This TV documentary was made for the UK BBC TV “Arena” strand in 1981, and shows some of the colourful residents of and people connected with the New … | |
| Exploding Plastic Inevitable | Herself | 1967-01-01 | Exploding Plastic Inevitable was a series of multimedia events organised by Andy Warhol between 1966 and 1967, featuring musical performances by The V… |
| Velvet Underground’s First Public Appearance | Herself | 1966-07-03 | Velvet Underground’s first public appearance…. |
| John Cale: An Exploration of His Life & Music | Herself (archive footage) | 1998-01-01 | Follows John Cale, a Welsh musician and producer, who founded the legendary 60s and 70s NY rock band – the Velvet Underground, with Lou Reed. Cale del… |
| Diaries, Notes, and Sketches | Self | 1969-12-01 | An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s…. |
| 13 Most Beautiful… Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests | Herself | 2009-04-07 | Between 1964 and 1966, Andy Warhol shot nearly 500 Screen Tests, beautiful and revealing portraits of hundreds of different individuals, from Warhol s… |
| A Man Named Rocca | Villanova | 1961-11-17 | Roberto goes to Marseilles to give a hand to his friend Xavier, wrongly imprisoned following a frame-up organized by his associate Villanova. Roberto … |
| The Velvet Underground: Psychiatrist’s Convention, NYC, 1966 | 1966-01-14 | The Velvet Underground’s first public appearance, filmed in Super 8 at a Psychiatrist’s Convention, at the Delmonico Hotel, New York, January 14, 1966… | |
| Danny Says | Self (archive footage) | 2015-03-18 | DANNY SAYS is a documentary unveiling the amazing journey of Danny Fields. Fields has played a pivotal role in music and culture with seminal acts inc… |
| Warhol’s Cinema 1963-1968: Mirror for the Sixties | Herself (archive footage) | 1989-01-01 | Documentary on Andy Warhol’s cinema of the sixties, made for Channel 4 in association with The Factory, MOMA and the Whitney Museum of Art and in coll… |
| Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections | Self | 1990-06-01 | This intimate portrait of Andy Warhol pulls together a unique library of material shot by New York film legend Jonas Mekas. Spanning from 1963 to 1990… |
| Positano | 2008-11-30 | Positano is an island of the Amalfi Coast that Neptune would have, according to legend, created for the love of a nymph. Perched on the rocks of the i… | |
| The Velvet Underground | Self (archive footage) | 2021-10-15 | Experience the iconic rock band’s legacy in the first major documentary to tell their story. Directed with the era’s avant-garde spirit by Todd Hayn… |
| La deuxième femme | Self | 2008-11-30 | Over the course of more than fifteen years, Clémenti films a series of intimate diaries, starting from daily encounters. In La deuxième femme, we s… |
| Chelsea Girls | Self | 1966-09-01 | Lacking a formal narrative, Warhol’s mammoth film follows various residents of the Chelsea Hotel in 1966 New York City. The film was intended to be sc… |
| ★★★★ | Herself | 1967-12-15 | Photographed entirely in color, Four Stars was projected in its complete length of nearly 25 hours (allowing for projection overlap of the 35-minute r… |
| Beautiful Darling | Self (archive footage) | 2010-04-02 | James Rasin’s documentary “Beautiful Darling†honors American Transgender actress and best-known Warhol Superstar, Candy Darling, and her all-too-… |
| La Dolce Vita | Nico | 1960-02-05 | Journalist and man-about-town Marcello struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome’s elite social scene and the stifling… |
| Let’s Kiss and Say Goodbye | 1988-06-30 | A study of the alienated people who frequent the Ballhaus Barmbek dance hall, including an obese El groupie, an old man reciting poetry, two young wom… | |
| Tempest | Blonde Girl at Spring Festival | 1958-12-01 | A young officer in the army of Empress Catherine of Russia is on his way to his new duty station at a remote outpost. During a blinding snowstorm he c… |
| Andy Warhol Screen Tests | Self | 1965-11-28 | The films were made between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol’s Factory studio in New York City. Subjects were captured in stark relief by a strong key light, a… |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Inner Scar | Dialogue | 1972-02-02 | A composition of symbolic, surreal and almost mystic images…. |
Sound
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Inner Scar | Music | 1972-02-02 | A composition of symbolic, surreal and almost mystic images…. |
| She Spent So Many Hours Under the Sun Lamps | Original Music Composer | 1985-10-09 | A young film director is turning a movie with his friend Christa. In the film-within-the-film there are two couples, one real, one imagined , and the … |
| Nico – Sphinx of Ice | Music | 2014-03-20 | Nico, born Christa Päffgen in Cologne, Germany just before the outbreak of the Second World War is one of the most mythic icons of our time. She was … |
| An Angel Passes | Music | 1975-04-23 | Nico is an ethereal poet haunting the gaps between scenes of Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Bulle Ogier, Laurent Terzieff, and Garrel’s father, Maurice, discus… |
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