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Agnieszka Mandat (born 29 May 1953) is a Polish actress. Her film credits include Spoor and Zwerbowana milosc . Her television credits include The Crown and the Kings and Nad rozlewiskiem... .
In 1976, she graduated from the State Higher School of Theater in Krakow. [1] In the same year, she made her debut on the stage of the Stary Theater in Krakow in the play Friends, directed by Jerzy Jarocki. [2]
Since 27 October 1978 she has been performing at the Television Theatre. Her television debut was the role of the daughter in the play Pelikan directed by Feliks Falk. [3] In 2010, for her role in the play Russian Jam, she received an acting award at the Festival of the Polish Radio Theater and the Polish Television Theater "Dwa Teatry". In 2014, she resigned from her job at the Stary Theater. [4]
She played in over forty films and series. [5] She gained nationwide popularity in Poland thanks to the series Dom nad rozlewiskiem and its sequels (2009–2014). [6] In 2017, for her role in Spoor by Agnieska Holland, [7] she received an Honorable Mention at the Zielona Góra Film and Theater Festival and a nomination for the Polish Film Awards "Eagles". [8]
Agnieszka Holland is a Polish film and television director and screenwriter, best known for her political contributions to Polish cinema. She began her career as an assistant to directors Krzysztof Zanussi and Andrzej Wajda, and emigrated to France shortly before the 1981 imposition of the martial law in Poland.
Katarzyna Herman is a Polish actress, who appeared in more than 70 television and film productions.
Krystyna Jolanta Janda is a Polish film and theatre actress, director, and singer. She is best known internationally for playing leading roles in several films by Polish film director Andrzej Wajda, including Man of Marble and Man of Iron. She is widely considered one of the most popular and successful Polish actresses of her generation and an icon of Polish cinema.
Maja Ostaszewska is a Polish actress. She made her screen debut appearing in small role in the 1993 historical drama film Schindler's List, before playing leading role in the drama film The Haven (1998), for which she received Polish Film Festival Award for Best Actress. She received her second Polish Film Festival Award for Best Actress for Prymas – trzy lata z tysiąca (2000). Since then, Ostaszewska appeared in more than 30 motion pictures and received six Polish Academy Award for Best Actress nominations, winning twice: for Jack Strong (2014) and Body (2015).
Dorota Segda in Kraków, Poland, is a Polish theatre, film and television actress. Besides acting, she is also a Professor of Theatre Arts, and the Rector since 2016, at the AST National Academy of Theatre Arts in Kraków. In 2015, she was awarded Poland's Silver Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis.
Margaret Pospiech is a Polish writer, filmmaker, journalist, translator, and photographer, based in New York. She obtained her PhD from Wroclaw University where she studied literature, film and art. She gained national recognition for her work as director and writer of a feature documentary about American filmmaker Arthur Penn. Pospiech has produced several other documentaries for Polish television and compiled over 70 interviews on camera with veterans of World War II, which are now housed in visual archives at the Polish Army Veteran's Association building in Manhattan and linked to the official site of Peter Weir's movie The Way Back (2010). She has also produced experimental films, including "Heat" (2005) and video installations, including "Wasteland" (2006–2009), and "Landscapes" (2008–2010).
Magdalena Walach is a Polish film and theater actress. In 1999 she completed studies at the Ludwik Solski Academy for the Dramatic Arts in Kraków. She is a member of the Bagatela Theatre acting company. Walach is married to actor Paweł Okraska, with whom she had their son Piotr (2006).
Jacek Lusiński is a Polish film director, scriptwriter, lyricist, and author of the book Carte Blanche, published by Axis Mundi. He makes feature films, documentaries, commercials and video clips. He graduated from the Łódź Film School. Member of the European Film Academy and the Polish Filmmakers Association.
Agnieszka Hyży is a Polish journalist, TV presenter and former model. Her notable work includes hosting the variety-game show Ciao Darwin and creating and hosting the Polsat Café program Super rodzinka. She has been married twice, her current spouse being Polish singer-songwriter Grzegorz Hyży. She has one daughter, who was born in 2013.
Spoor is a 2017 Polish crime film directed by Agnieszka Holland, adapted from the novel Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk. It was selected to compete for the Golden Bear in the main competition section of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival. At Berlin, the film won the Alfred Bauer Prize. It was selected as the Polish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.
Marta Mazurek is a Polish film actress. She made her debut role performance in the Gabriela Zapolska's play Ich czworo in 2012 directed for Radio Kraków by Jerzy Stuhr.
Agnieszka Urszula Dygant is a Polish actress. She is a two-time Telekamery Award winner for Best Actress.
Antoni Gąsiorowski is a Polish medievalist historian, professor of humanities, member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Barbara Grzybowska-Świerkosz, is a Polish chemist. She graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków in 1959, and received a PhD from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh in 1963. After completing a post-doctoral degree at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw in 1974, she researched and taught at that institution, where she has been a professor of chemical sciences since 1990. She has authored more than 140 publications, including articles, monographs and teaching documents.
Adam Wojciech Burakowski is a Polish diplomat, political scientist and historian, serving as an ambassador of Poland to South Africa and India (2017–2023).
Andrzej Tadeusz Strzelecki, was a Polish actor, satirist, theatre director, screenplay writer and rector of the Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw in the years 2008–2016.
Włodzimierz Szpak is a Polish documentary film director, photographer and author.
Sandra Drzymalska is a Polish actress.
Stanisław Szymański was Polish ballet dancer. In the years 1967–1985, he was the premier danseur of the Grand Theatre, Warsaw.
Krzysztof Dracz is a stage, television, film, and voice actor, theatre director, and screenwriter. He is also an academic of theater arts at the Faculty of Acting of Wrocław branch of the AST National Academy of Theatre Arts.