Joanna Kanska

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Joanna Kanska
Born
Joanna Osmakiewicz [1]

(1957-04-01) 1 April 1957 (age 67)
Nowy Sącz, Poland
Known for A Very Peculiar Practice

Joanna Kanska (born 1 April 1957) is a Polish-British actress who has worked in film, television, theatre and radio. She migrated to the United Kingdom in 1984.

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Career

Born in Nowy Sącz, she attended the National Film School in Łódź from 1976 to 1980. [2]

Kanska's best known roles on television were as a Polish academic, Grete Gretowska, in the second series of the BBC's A Very Peculiar Practice (1988) (and a sequel, A Very Polish Practice in 1992), as Ludmilla in The New Statesman , as Sirkka Nieminen in Capital City (1990) [3] and as KGB Major Nina Grishna in the BBC's mini-series Sleepers (1991). [4] Kanska starred as lawyer Magda Ostrowska in the BBC series Madson (1995–1996). She also played the part of Greta Beaumont, a Sudeten German woman, in the first episode of Foyle's War .

Personal life

Shortly after her arrival in the UK, Kanska married Polish artist Kaz Kanski after a romance of a few weeks. They divorced five years later, but she retained her married name (the feminine version of Kanski).

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References

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