POLISH FILM ACADEMY

Born in the Wilanów Palace in 1938 to the aristocratic family Tyszkiewicz and taught by the Immaculate Conception Sisters in Szymanów, she had her debut in film as a student with a role of Klara in Antoni Bohdziewicz and Bohdan Korzeniewski’s (1956) Zemsta/The Revenge. She studied at the Warsaw University of Performing Arts for a short time.
It’s impossible to name her most significant roles because she played more than 120 of them in Poland, France, Germany, Belgium, USSR and Hungary. She worked with Costa-Gavras, Claude Lelouch, André Delvaux, Marta Meszaros, Kszysztof Zanussi and Andrei Konchalovsky.
Known as the first lady of Polish cinema, she is often cast as aristocrats and eminent women who are an object of admiration and desire. Although, she did play a few roles in comedies: Stanisław Tym in Ryś [Richie] gave her the role of a cleaner as opposed to what she is usually cast as.