POLISH FILM ACADEMY

Jerzy Stuhr

"He seems to be a unique actor in Poland – he is good in whatever field of art he undertakes, be it film, television, or theatre. Why is that? I think there are two elements worth pointing out. The first is his excellent technique, mastered to perfection in virtually every...

Danuta Szaflarska

Her debut – not counting Dwie godziny [‘Two Hours], which was only allowed on screens eleven years after its making – was in Zakazane piosenki/Forbidden Songs, the first post-war film. She also played the main character in the first post-war comedy Skarb/The Treasure. She...

Grażyna Szapołowska

She spent two years in Pantomimy Theatre in Wrocław. Her early serious acting work was first in Yugoslavia – for Dragovan Jovanovic in Zapach ziemi [‘The Scent of Earth’], in Hungary – for Sándor Sára in 80 huszár [’80 Hussars’] and for Károly Makk. For the latter she played...

Joanna Szczepkowska

The authoress of the famous announcement of the fall of communism in Poland, she is not only an actress but also a director, a writer and a columnist. Directors tend to give her supporting roles but Szczepkowska gives them such depth and strength of expression that her roles...

Aleksandra Śląska

A severe and majestic blonde, created as if for roles of commanding and determined women.
Her debut was the supporting – but still important and distinctive – role of Oberaufseherin in Wanda Jakubowska’s Ostatni Etap/The Last Stage. A similar role she created much later in...

Jerzy Trela

Krakow theatre and film actor, associated initially with the Rozmaitości Theatre, and then the Stary Theatre. Born on March 14, 1942 in Leńcze near Krakow.

Film never gave him the opportunity to fully demonstrate his talent, although he did find recognition in theatre....

Teresa Tuszyńska

A consul’s daughter – an impossible love interest of the hero played by Zbyszek Cybulski in Janusz Morgenstern’s Do widzenia, do jutra/Goodbye, Till Tomorrow, Teresa Tuszyńska was the winner of a competition for amateurs but got lost in the film industry world. She appeared...

Stanisław Tym

Born on July 17, 1937 in Małkinia Górna. He studied at the Faculty of Chemistry of Warsaw University of Technology, at the Department of Processing at the School of Life Sciences, at the Faculty of Drawing and Handiwork in Teachers College, and the Acting Department of the...

Beata Tyszkiewicz

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...

Lucyna Winnicka

One of the icons of 60s Polish cinema, right after finishing The University of Performing Arts she debuted in a film by Jerzy Kawalerowicz and it’s safe to say that she became ‘his actress’. Her most interesting roles were in Prawdziwy koniec wielkiej wojny/The Real End of...

Ewa Wiśniewska

As a secondary school student she won the ‘Film’ competition Beautiful girls - on screens!, which never got in the way of her finishing the University of Performing Arts. She gained great popularity with Henryk Kluba’s TV series Doktor Ewa [‘Dr Eva’], but her best roles came...

Zbigniew Zamachowski

“Most of Zamachowski’s film roles to date have been either supporting or minuscule cameos. Fortunately, often very distinctive, leaving a powerful impression, allowing him to demonstrate his brilliant talent,” Stanisław Zawiśliński wrote in his book Zamach na Zamachowskiego...

Zbigniew Zapasiewicz

“I make use of the transformation of my appearance. Not to mention internal transformation and characteristics, which I always seek. I'm trying to find out, for example, how the man I am playing walks, how he talks. I'm trying (for my own use, because the viewer may not...

Aleksander Żabczyński

Before WW2, he was the most famous Polish theatre, film and cabaret actor and a gifted singer.

He was born on July 24, 1900 in Warsaw; died on May 31, 1958 in Warsaw. Graduate of a military school, he also studied law at Warsaw University and acting at Nina Niovilli’s...