Polish directors and actors
by danpal-86286 | created - 12 Feb 2023 | updated - 3 weeks ago | Public
1. Miroslaw Baka
Actor | Krótki film o zabijaniu
Miroslaw Baka is a renowned Polish actor known for his work in theater, movies, and television. Before his acting career, he worked as a medical rescuer. He graduated from the National Academy of Theatre Arts in Wroclaw in 1989. Baka made his acting debut in the television film Daleki Dystans (1985)...
2. Krzysztof Globisz
Actor | Krótki film o zabijaniu
Krzysztof Globisz was born on January 16, 1957 in Siemianowice Slaskie, Slaskie, Poland. He is an actor and director, known for A Short Film About Killing (1988), Zakochany aniol (2005) and Aniol w Krakowie (2002).
3. Olaf Lubaszenko
Actor | Krótki film o milosci
Olaf Lubaszenko, a Polish actor, director, and producer, is known for his association with Theatre Buffo. He studied sociology at Warsaw University and the Christian Academy of Theology in Warsaw. He gained popularity for his roles in Pilkarski poker (1989) and A Short Film About Love (1988). He ...
4. Grazyna Szapolowska
Actress | Krótki film o milosci
Grazyna Szapolowska is a renowned Polish film and theatre actress. She graduated from the National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw. From 1977 until 1984, she was part of the National Theatre in Warsaw. She is best known for her role in A Short Film About Love (1988). She also portrayed Telimena ...
5. Krzysztof Kieslowski
Writer | Trois couleurs: Bleu
Krzysztof Kieslowski graduated from Lódz Film School in 1969, and became a documentary, TV and feature film director and scriptwriter. Before making his first film for TV, Przejscie podziemne (1974) (The Underground Passage), he made a number of short documentaries. His next TV title, Personnel (...
6. Roman Polanski
Director | Chinatown
Roman Polanski is a Polish film director, producer, writer and actor. Having made films in Poland, Britain, France and the USA, he is considered one of the few truly international filmmakers. Roman Polanski was born in Paris in 1933.
His parents returned to Poland from France in 1936, three years ...
7. Pawel Lozinski
Director | Film balkonowy
Pawel Lozinski was born on December 4, 1965 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland. He is a director and writer, known for The Balcony Movie (2021), Chemia (2009) and Sisters (1999).
8. Walerian Borowczyk
Director | Docteur Jekyll et les femmes
Born in Kwilcz, Poland, Walerian Borowczyk trained as a painter and lithographer, winning Poland's National Prize in 1953. He began his film career as a film poster designer, then started making short animated films in the late 1950s. Moving to France in the early 1960s, he gained a reputation as a...
9. Ligia Branice
Actress | Interno di un convento
Ligia Branice was born on December 7, 1932 in Krasnystaw, Lubelskie, Poland. She was an actress and writer, known for Behind Convent Walls (1978), La Jetée (1962) and Spotkania (1957). She was married to Walerian Borowczyk. She died on September 6, 2022 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
10. Krzysztof Zanussi
Director | Struktura krysztalu
Born in 1939 in Warsaw, Poland. Documentary and feature film director. Studied physics at Warsaw University and philosophy at Jagiellonian University in Cracow. Graduated from Lodz Film Academy in 1966. Amateur film maker. His school diploma film 'Death of a Provincial' (Smierc prowincjala (1968)) ...
11. Pawel Pawlikowski
Director | Zimna wojna
A literature and philosophy graduate, with extensive post-graduate work at Oxford on German literature, Polish-born Pawel Pawlikowski started as a documentary filmmaker in British television.
His second feature, Last Resort (2000), earned him international critical acclaim at numerous festivals, ...
12. Joanna Kulig
Actress | Zimna wojna
Graduate of the Ludwik Solski State Drama School in Krakow, specialization in popular music vocals; actress of the Teatr Stary in Krakow.
PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION The Fryderyk Chopin State Primary Music School in Krynica-Zdroj - piano class, the Mieczyslaw Karlowicz State Secondary Music School in ...
13. Tomasz Kot
Actor | Zimna wojna
Tomasz Kot was born on April 21, 1977 in Legnica, Dolnoslaskie, Poland. He is an actor and writer, known for Cold War (2018), Bogowie (2014) and Skazany na bluesa (2005). He has been married to Agnieszka Kot since September 30, 2006. They have two children.
14. Agnieszka Holland
Director | Pokot
Having graduated from FAMU in Prague film (1971), Agnieszka Holland returned to Poland and began her film career working with Krzysztof Zanussi as assistant director, and Andrzej Wajda as her mentor. Her first feature film was PROVINCIAL ACTORS (1978), one of the flagship pictures of the "cinema of...
15. Jerzy Stuhr
Actor | Historie milosne
Jerzy Stuhr is a Polish actor, director, and writer. He completed his education in Polish Philology at the Jagiellonian University and then graduated from the National Academy of Theatre Arts in Krakow. Stuhr's acting career began in the theaters in Krakow, where he performed in plays such as "Noc ...
16. Andrzej Zulawski
Writer | Possession
Born in Lvov, Ukraine; then he moved with his father Miroslaw Zulawski to Czechoslovakia and later to Poland. In the late 1950s, he studied cinema in France. In the 1960s, he was an assistant of the famous Polish film director Andrzej Wajda. His feature debut The Third Part of the Night (1971) was ...
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