Bartosz Bielenia

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Bielenia before 92nd Academy Awards in February 2020
Born
Bartosz Bielenia

(1992-05-15) 15 May 1992 (age 31)
Białystok, Poland
Alma mater AST National Academy of Theatre Arts in Kraków
OccupationActor
Years active2013–present

Bartosz Bielenia (born 15 May 1992) is a Polish film and stage actor.

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Education

In 2016, Bielenia graduated from AST National Academy of Theatre Arts in Kraków. [1] [2]

Career

He made his debut in 1999 at the Aleksander Wegierko Dramatic Theatre in Białystok as the title character in the play The Little Prince.

From 2013 he played in Bagatela Theatre in Kraków, where he debuted with the role of the consumptive seventeen-year-old Ippolit Terentyev in Dostoyevsky's The Idiot . In the years 2014–2017 he performed at the Helena Modrzejewska National Old Theatre in Kraków. Since 2018 he has been performing in the New Theatre in Warsaw. [3]

In 2019, Bielenia took on the starring role in Corpus Christi , earning wide acclaim for his performance. He received a Polish Academy Award for Best Actor as well as Best Actor awards at festivals including the El Gouna Film Festival, [4] the Chicago International Film Festival [5] and the Stockholm International Film Festival. [6] In December, he was awarded the Zbigniew Cybulski Award. [7] In 2020, he received the Shooting Star Award for best young European actor, and the European Film Award for best actor. [8] [9]

In 2021, he played Sebastian in the Netflix crime-thriller Prime Time . [10]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
2015Disco PoloMember of Band Funny Games
2015The Time of a Young Man About To KillYoung Man
2016Na granicyJanek
2018 Clergy Toady
2019 Corpus Christi Daniel
2020 25 Years of Innocence Krzysiek Pyzior
2021 Prime Time Sebastian

Television

Awards

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