Halina Machulska (born March 2, 1929) is a Polish theater, film and television actress.
Machulska is the widow of theater director and actor, Jan Machulski, who died in 2008. [1] The couple's son is Polish film director, Juliusz Machulski. [1] Halina and her husband co-starred together in their son's 1987 film, Kingsajz .
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Jerzy Oskar Stuhr was a Polish film and theatre actor. Considered one of the most popular, influential and versatile Polish actors and an icon of Polish cinema, he also worked as a screenwriter, film director, voice actor and drama professor. He served as the rector of the Ludwik Solski Academy for the Dramatic Arts in Kraków for two terms: from 1990 to 1996 and again from 2002 to 2008.
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The Leon Schiller Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Łódź, commonly known as Łódź Film School is a Polish academy for future actors, directors, photographers, camera operators and television staff. It was founded on 8 March 1948 in Łódź (Lodz).
Juliusz Machulski is a Polish film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. Son of noted actor Jan Machulski, he became notable for his comedies ridiculing the life in communist-ruled Poland of the 1970s and 1980s. He is a member of the European Film Academy and the founder of the Zebra Film Studio. In 2014, he was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.
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Maciej Kozlowski was a Polish actor, mostly known for his roles in Kingsajz, Psy, Kiler, With Fire and Sword and Schindler's List and the TV series M jak miłość.
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The Jan and Halina Machulski Ochota Theater is a performing arts theater in Kolonia Lubeckiego, Ochota, Warsaw. The auditorium has a seating capacity of less than 100.