Despite her aristocratic ancestry Kissa van Sievers turned to the then disparagingly treated film business and she also did not choose a pen name for her film career but acted with her real name.
The actress Kissa von Sievers was born as a nobleness daughter of the comital family von Sievers at Castle Wenden.
Her parents were count Emanuel von Sievers and princess Olga Urussow.