100 Notable Alumni of Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School

Roman Polanski

Born in: France
Years: 1933-.. (age 91)
Occupations: writerdirectoractorcharacter actortheatrical director
Biography: Raymond Roman Thierry Polański is a French and Polish film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, two British Academy Film Awards, ten César Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, as well as the Golden Bear and a Palme d'Or.

Andrzej Wajda

Born in: Poland
Years: 1926-2016 (aged 90)
Enrolled in Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School: 1950-1953 studied filmmaking
Occupations: film producertelevision directortheatrical directorscreenwriterpolitician
Biography: Andrzej Witold Wajda was a Polish film and theatre director. Recipient of an Honorary Oscar, the Palme d'Or, as well as Honorary Golden Lion and Honorary Golden Bear Awards, he was a prominent member of the "Polish Film School". He was known especially for his trilogy of war films consisting of A Generation (1955), Kanał (1957) and Ashes and Diamonds (1958).

Krzysztof Kieślowski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1941-1996 (aged 55)
Occupations: film directorauthorscreenwriterdirector
Biography: Krzysztof Kieślowski was a Polish film director and screenwriter. He is known internationally for Dekalog (1989), The Double Life of Veronique (1991), and the Three Colours trilogy (1993 –1994). Kieślowski received numerous awards during his career, including the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize (1988), FIPRESCI Prize (1988, 1991), and Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (1991); the Venice Film Festival FIPRESCI Prize (1989), Golden Lion (1993), and OCIC Award (1993); and the Berlin International Film Festival Silver Bear (1994). In 1995, he received Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.

Agnieszka Osiecka

Born in: Poland
Years: 1936-1997 (aged 61)
Occupations: writersongwriterpoetlyricistjournalist
Biography: Agnieszka Osiecka was a Polish poet, writer, author of theatre and television screenplays, film director and journalist. She was a prominent Polish songwriter, having authored the lyrics to more than 2000 songs, and is considered an icon of Polish culture.

Barbara Brylska

Born in: Poland
Years: 1941-.. (age 83)
Occupations: film actoractor
Biography: Barbara Brylska is a Polish actress who gained critical acclaim in 1960s and was featured in numerous films throughout the countries of the Warsaw Pact including the Soviet Union. She is noted especially for her role as Nadya in the 1976 Soviet comedy film Irony of Fate.

Cezary Pazura

Born in: Poland
Years: 1962-.. (age 62)
Occupations: film directordirectorsingeractorcomedian
Biography: Cezary Andrzej Pazura is a Polish actor known for his comedy roles in movies such as Kiler, Chłopaki nie płaczą, Kariera Nikosia Dyzmy and the sitcom 13 posterunek. In addition to his work as a movie actor, Pazura is also a stand-up comedian and a voice actor. He provided voice for movies dubbed in Polish including Lady and the Tramp (as the Tramp), Ice Age (as Sid), Astérix & Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre (as Numérobis), Shark Tale (as Oscar) and for Pink Panther in various computer games. His brother Radosław Pazura is also an actor.

Krzysztof Ibisz

Born in: Poland
Years: 1965-.. (age 59)
Occupations: actorjournalistpolitician
Biography: Krzysztof Ibisz is a Polish game show host and television personality. He was a member of Polish Beer-Lovers' Party and a Deputy in the Polish Sejm from 1991–93.

Janusz Gajos

Born in: Poland
Years: 1939-.. (age 85)
Occupations: television actorfilm directorstage actorfilm actoractor
Biography: Janusz Gajos is a Polish film, television and theatre actor as well as pedagogue and photographer. Professor of Theatre Arts and an Honorary Doctor of the National Film School in Łódź, he is considered one of the greatest Polish actors.

Pola Raksa

Born in: Belarus
Years: 1941-.. (age 83)
Enrolled in Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School: Studied in 1960-1964
Occupations: actorperforming artistcostume designer
Biography: Apolonia "Pola" Raksa is a Polish movie star, singer, and model who was especially popular in Poland and abroad in the 1960s and 1970s.

Jerzy Skolimowski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1938-.. (age 86)
Occupations: directorscreenwriterplaywrightactorpainter
Biography: Jerzy Skolimowski is a Polish film director, screenwriter, dramatist, actor and painter. Beginning as a screenwriter for Andrzej Wajda's Innocent Sorcerers (1960), Skolimowski has made more than twenty films since his directorial debut The Menacing Eye (1960). In 1967 he was awarded the Golden Bear prize for his Belgian film The Departure (1967). Among his other notable films is Deep End (1970), starring Jane Asher and John Moulder Brown.

Juliusz Machulski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1955-.. (age 69)
Occupations: film directorscreenwriteractorfilm producer
Biography: Juliusz Machulski is a Polish film director and screenplay writer. Son of noted actor Jan Machulski, Juliusz became notable for his comedies ridiculing the life in communist-ruled Poland of the 1970s and 1980s.

Zbigniew Zamachowski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1961-.. (age 63)
Occupations: stage actorcomposerfilm actoractor
Biography: Zbigniew Zamachowski is a Polish actor.

Małgorzata Foremniak

Born in: Poland
Years: 1967-.. (age 57)
Occupations: actor
Biography: Małgorzata Irena Foremniak is a Polish actress. She has appeared in the Polish TV series Na dobre i na złe as Zofia Stankiewicz-Burska up to 2011 and she has played the role of Ash in Avalon. She took part in Taniec z gwiazdami on TVN. She is now a judge in the Polish edition of Got Talent, called Mam talent!.

Krzysztof Zanussi

Born in: Poland
Years: 1939-.. (age 85)
Enrolled in Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School: 1962-1966 graduated with magister degree in direction
Occupations: film directorwriterscreenwriterfilm producer
Biography: Krzysztof Pius Zanussi is a Polish film and theatre director, producer and screenwriter. He is a professor of European film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland where he conducts a summer workshop. He is also a professor at the Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School of the University of Silesia in Katowice.

Stanisław Bareja

Born in: Poland
Years: 1929-1987 (aged 58)
Occupations: actorfilm directorscreenwriter
Biography: Stanisław Sylwester Bareja was a Polish filmmaker. Some of his films (mostly comedies) have reached cult status in Poland.

Andrzej Kopiczyński

Born in: Poland
Years: 1934-2016 (aged 82)
Occupations: television actoractor
Biography: Andrzej Kopiczyński was a Polish actor. He appeared in more than 50 films and television between 1958 and 2016.

Maria Dębska

Born in: Poland
Years: 1991-.. (age 33)
Occupations: stage actor
Biography: Maria Debska is a Polish actress. She received Gdynia Film Festival Award for Best Actress and Polish Academy Award for Best Actress nomination for performance as Kalina Jędrusik in the biographical musical drama film, Autumn Girl (2021).

Agnieszka Dygant

Born in: Poland
Years: 1973-.. (age 51)
Occupations: film actoractor
Biography: Agnieszka Urszula Dygant is a Polish actress. She is a two-time Telekamery Award winner for Best Actress.

Grazyna Blecka-Kolska

Born in: Poland
Years: 1962-.. (age 62)
Occupations: film actoractor
Biography: Grażyna Błęcka-Kolska is a Polish actress. She has appeared in 22 films and television shows since 1988. She starred in Johnnie Waterman, which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.

Małgorzata Szumowska

Born in: Poland
Years: 1973-.. (age 51)
Occupations: film directorscreenwriterfilm producerfilm screenwriter
Biography: Małgorzata Szumowska is a Polish film director, screenwriter and producer, born in Kraków.

Wojciech Smarzowski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1963-.. (age 61)
Occupations: film directordirectorscreenwriter
Biography: Wojciech Smarzowski is a Polish screenwriter and director. He studied filmmaking at the Jagiellonian University and the National Film School in Łódź (1990). His 2004 film, The Wedding (not to be confused with the Andrzej Wajda film of the same title) earned special jury mention at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2005. He began his film career as a video camera operator.

Jan Machulski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1928-2008 (aged 80)
Occupations: theatrical directorstage actoruniversity teacherfilm actordrama teacher
Biography: Jan Henryk Machulski was a Polish theater director, as well as a film and theatrical actor. He appeared in more than 45 film roles and 70 theater roles throughout his career.

Artur Barcis

Born in: Poland
Years: 1956-.. (age 68)
Occupations: actordirectortelevision actor
Biography: Artur Barciś is a Polish actor and film director. His television appearances include Krzysztof Kieślowski's anthology series Dekalog (1989), the soap opera Aby do świtu... (1992), and Kurierzy ("Couriers"). From 2006 to 2016 he played the lovably neurotic Arkadiusz Czerepach in the comedy series Ranczo ("The Ranch").

Teresa Lipowska

Born in: Poland
Years: 1937-.. (age 87)
Occupations: actorfilm actorstage actor
Biography: Teresa Lipowska is a Polish actress. She is best known as Barbara Mostowiak in the very popular Polish soap opera M jak miłość. Lipowska was married to actor Tomasz Zaliwski.

Krzysztof Kiersznowski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1950-2021 (aged 71)
Occupations: actor
Biography: Krzysztof Kiersznowski was a Polish actor. He appeared in more than 60 films and television shows from 1977 to 2021.

Leonard Pietraszak

Born in: Poland
Years: 1936-2023 (aged 87)
Occupations: actor
Biography: Leonard Pietraszak was a Polish actor. He appeared in more than 70 films and television shows since 1957.

Jacek Koman

Born in: Poland
Years: 1956-.. (age 68)
Occupations: film actortelevision actoractorsingermusician
Biography: Jacek Koman is a Polish actor and singer.

Andrzej Bartkowiak

Born in: Poland
Years: 1950-.. (age 74)
Occupations: film directorcamera operatorcinematographer
Biography: Andrzej Bartkowiak, A.S.C. is a Polish cinematographer and film director.

Piotr Polk

Born in: Poland
Years: 1962-.. (age 62)
Occupations: film actoractor
Biography: Piotr Polk is a Polish actor and singer. He portrayed Leo Rosner in the 1993 American film Schindler's List. He appeared in the comedy television series Bao-Bab, czyli zielono mi in 2003. He portrayed Paul Sheldon in a 2017 stage version of Misery.

Dariusz Wolski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1956-.. (age 68)
Occupations: cinematographer
Biography: Dariusz Adam Wolski is a Polish film and music video cinematographer. He is known for his work as the cinematographer on the Pirates of the Caribbean film series and on Alex Proyas' cult classics The Crow and Dark City. Many of his collaborations include working with film directors like Ridley Scott, Rob Marshall, Tony Scott, Gore Verbinski and Tim Burton. He has been a member of the American Society of Cinematographers since 1996 and a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 2004. Wolski has worked on several music videos with artists such as Elton John, Eminem, David Bowie, Sting, Aerosmith, and Neil Young.

Maciej Kozłowski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1957-2010 (aged 53)
Occupations: association football playeractor
Biography: 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.

Marek Koterski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1942-.. (age 82)
Occupations: directorscreenwriterpoetactorart historian
Biography: Marek Koterski is a Polish film and theatre director, screenwriter, actor, and playwright.

Bartłomiej Topa

Born in: Poland
Years: 1967-.. (age 57)
Occupations: film produceractor
Biography: Bartłomiej Filip Topa is a Polish actor. He appeared in more than 100 films and television series since 1990.

Katarzyna Glinka

Born in: Poland
Years: 1977-.. (age 47)
Occupations: actor
Biography: Katarzyna Glinka is a Polish film and theatre actress and television presenter.

Weronika Książkiewicz

Born in: Russia
Years: 1981-.. (age 43)
Occupations: film actoractor
Biography: Weronika Książkiewicz is a Polish actress. She is best known for playing Ola in the 2016 romantic comedy film Planet Single and Dzika in the 2021 crime drama film Furioza.

Xawery Żuławski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1971-.. (age 53)
Occupations: screenwriterfilm director
Biography: Xawery Żuławski is a Polish film director.

Aneta Zając

Born in: Poland
Years: 1982-.. (age 42)
Occupations: film actoractor
Biography: Aneta Zając is a Polish actress.

Kazimierz Kutz

Born in: Poland
Years: 1929-2018 (aged 89)
Occupations: opinion journalisttheatrical directorscreenwriterpoliticiandirector
Biography: Kazimierz Julian Kutz was a Polish film director, author, journalist and politician, one of the representatives of the Polish Film School and a deputy speaker of the Senate of Poland.

Jacek Chmielnik

Born in: Poland
Years: 1953-2007 (aged 54)
Occupations: film actorwriterplaywrightactorstage actor
Biography: Jacek Chmielnik was a Polish stage and film actor.

Jacek Kopczyński

Born in: Poland
Years: 1971-.. (age 53)
Occupations: film actoractor
Biography: Jacek Kopczyński is a Polish actor. He also provides voice-overs on television programs, like those broadcast on Hyper+. He is most known as the original voice of Dandelion (Jaskier) in The Witcher video games.

Jan Komasa

Born in: Poland
Years: 1981-.. (age 43)
Enrolled in Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School: Studied in 2001-2005
Occupations: cinematographerdirectorfilm directorscreenwriterauthor
Biography: Jan Tadeusz Komasa is a Polish film director, screenwriter, and producer best known for directing Suicide Room (2011), Warsaw 44 (2014), and Corpus Christi (2019), which was nominated for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards. His previous works premiered and won awards at Tribeca Film Festival, Berlin Film Festival, Cannes, and Venice.

Ewa Gawryluk

Born in: Poland
Years: 1967-.. (age 57)
Occupations: film actoractor
Biography: Ewa Gawryluk is a Polish actress.

Jadwiga Barańska

Born in: Poland
Years: 1935-.. (age 89)
Occupations: film directorscreenwriterfilm actoractor
Biography: Jadwiga Barańska is a Polish actress and screenwriter. Jadwiga Barańska is married to Polish director Jerzy Antczak and the mother of Mikołaj Antczak, born in 1964.

Barbara Borys-Damięcka

Born in: Poland
Years: 1937-2023 (aged 86)
Enrolled in Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School: Studied in 1959
Occupations: politiciandirectortheatrical director
Biography: Barbara Borys-Damięcka was a Polish politician, theatre and television director.

Władysław Pasikowski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1959-.. (age 65)
Occupations: writerfilm directordirectorscreenwriterscience fiction writer
Biography: Władysław Pasikowski is a Polish film director and screenwriter.

Jan Kidawa-Blonski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1953-.. (age 71)
Occupations: film producerfilm directorscreenwriter
Biography: Jan Kidawa-Błoński is a Polish film director, producer and screenwriter.

Anita Sokołowska

Born in: Poland
Years: 1976-.. (age 48)
Occupations: film actoractor
Biography: Anita Sokołowska is a Polish theatrical, movie and television actress.

Tadeusz Janczar

Born in: Poland
Years: 1926-1997 (aged 71)
Occupations: actorfilm actorstage actor
Biography: Tadeusz Janczar was a Polish film actor. He appeared in 26 films between 1952 and 1983.

Adrianna Biedrzyńska

Born in: Poland
Years: 1962-.. (age 62)
Occupations: film actoractor
Biography: Adrianna Biedrzyńska is a Polish actress. She performed in more than thirty films since 1983. She is best known for her performance as Anka in Decalogue IV.

Anja Antonowicz

Born in: Poland
Years: 1981-.. (age 43)
Occupations: actor
Biography: Anja Antonowicz is a Polish-German actress from Włocławek.

Jan Jakub Kolski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1956-.. (age 68)
Occupations: theatrical directorcinematographerfilm directorscreenwriterfilm producer
Biography: Jan Jakub Kolski is a Polish film director, cinematographer, and writer.

Izabela Kuna

Born in: Poland
Years: 1970-.. (age 54)
Occupations: actorfilm actorstage actor
Biography: Izabela Kuna is a Polish film, television and theatre actress as well as a blogger.

Krzysztof Krauze

Born in: Poland
Years: 1953-2014 (aged 61)
Occupations: cinematographerfilm directorscreenwriteractor
Biography: Krzysztof Krauze was a Polish film director, cinematographer and actor, best known for his thriller The Debt (1999).

Jerzy Janeczek

Born in: Germany
Years: 1944-2021 (aged 77)
Occupations: actor
Biography: Jerzy Janeczek was a Polish theater and film actor.

Zofia Nasierowska

Born in: Poland
Years: 1938-2011 (aged 73)
Occupations: writerphotographer
Biography: Zofia Nasierowska was a Polish portrait photographer who created images of Polish celebrities.

Janusz Kondratiuk

Born in: Kazakhstan
Years: 1943-2019 (aged 76)
Occupations: screenwriterfilm director
Biography: Janusz Kondratiuk was a Polish director and writer. He was born in Kazakhstan. He died in Łoś, aged 76.

Joanna Jędryka

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1940-.. (age 84)
Occupations: film actoractor
Biography: Joanna Jędryka,, is a Polish film and theatre actress. She is a graduate of the Acting Department at the National Film School in Łódź in 1965 and stars in 38 different works.

Zbigniew Suszyński

Born in: Poland
Years: 1961-.. (age 63)
Occupations: stage actordub actorfilm actoractor
Biography: Zbigniew Suszyński is a Polish film, television and theater actor. He has also provided voice-overs for commercials and television programs. He has been in dubbing roles in many animated films and TV shows, such as in The Brave Little Toaster as Radio, in SpongeBob SquarePants as Squidward Tentacles and in TUFF Puppy as Verminous Snaptrap. He has played in many films like Shades of Fern (1984), The Young Magician (1986), Korczak (1990), Szamanka (1996).

Gabriela Muskała

Born in: Poland
Years: 1969-.. (age 55)
Occupations: actorfilm actorplaywright
Biography: Gabriela Muskała is a Polish actress. She has appeared in such films as Courage, Królowa aniolów and Moje córki krowy and television programs such as Paradoks and Głęboka woda.

Marek Frąckowiak

Born in: Poland
Years: 1950-2017 (aged 67)
Occupations: actorfilm actortelevision actor
Biography: Marek Antoni Frąckowiak was a Polish actor of stage and screen. He had roles in Niespotykanie spokojny człowiek, Ekipa, Ballada o Januszku and The Last Wish. He also extensively dubbed film, television and video games.

Sławomir Idziak

Born in: Poland
Years: 1945-.. (age 79)
Occupations: film directorscreenwritercinematographer
Biography: Sławomir Idziak is a Polish cinematographer and director who has worked on over forty Polish and foreign films. He is especially known for his collaboration with director Krzysztof Kieślowski as well as Ridley Scott and David Yates.

Jerzy Rogalski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1948-.. (age 76)
Occupations: actor
Biography: Jerzy Rogalski is a Polish film and theatre actor.

Robert Gliński

Born in: Poland
Years: 1952-.. (age 72)
Occupations: film directordirectorscreenwriter
Biography: Robert Ignacy Gliński is a Polish film director and screenwriter. A graduate of the National Film School in Łódź. He won the Golden Lions at the Gdynia Film Festival in 1992 with his film Wszystko, co najważniejsze and in 2001 with Cześć, Tereska. In 2002 he received an Eagle, the Polish Film Award for his film Cześć, Tereska.

Olga Borys

Born in: Poland
Years: 1974-.. (age 50)
Occupations: actor
Biography: Olga Borys is a Polish film, television, theater and dubbing actress.

Wiesława Mazurkiewicz

Born in: Poland
Years: 1926-2021 (aged 95)
Occupations: film actoractor
Biography: Wiesława Mazurkiewicz-Lutkiewicz was a Polish film and theater actress. She graduated from the National Film School in Łódź in 1952.

Jacek Kawalec

Born in: Poland
Years: 1961-.. (age 63)
Occupations: audiobook narratoractor
Biography: Jacek Kawalec is a Polish actor, game show and television personality.

Paweł Stasiak

Born in: Poland
Years: 1967-.. (age 57)
Occupations: singer
Biography: Paweł Stasiak, also known as Pablosson, is a Polish singer. He is currently the lead singer of musical group Papa D, a revival of the band Papa Dance from the 1980s, of which he was also the lead singer.

Zygmunt Malanowicz

Born in: Lithuania
Years: 1938-2021 (aged 83)
Occupations: film actordirectorscreenwriteractorfilm director
Biography: Zygmunt Malanowicz was a Polish film actor. He appeared in more than 30 films from 1962 to 2020.

Jacek Bromski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1946-.. (age 78)
Occupations: film producerfilm directorscreenwriter
Biography: Jacek Bromski is a Polish film director. He has directed 15 films since 1982. He was a member of the jury at the 18th Moscow International Film Festival.

Andrzej Munk

Born in: Poland
Years: 1921-1961 (aged 40)
Occupations: cinematographerfilm directorscreenwriterdirector
Biography: Andrzej Munk was a Polish film director, screen writer and documentalist. He was one of the most influential artists of the post-Stalinist period in the People's Republic of Poland. His feature films Man on the Tracks (Człowiek na torze, 1956), Eroica (Heroism, 1958), Bad Luck (Zezowate szczęście, 1960), and Passenger (Pasażerka 1963), are considered classics of the Polish Film School developed in mid-1950s. He died as a result of a car crash in Kompina in a head-on collision with a truck.

Antoni Krauze

Born in: Poland
Years: 1940-2018 (aged 78)
Occupations: screenwriterfilm director
Biography: Antoni Krauze was a Polish screenwriter and director.

Sylwester Chęciński

Born in: Poland
Years: 1930-2021 (aged 91)
Occupations: screenwriterfilm director
Biography: Sylwester Chęciński was a Polish film and television director. He was born in Susiec, Poland, on 21 May 1930. Chęciński died in Wrocław on 8 December 2021, at the age of 91.

Ludwik Benoit

Born in: Belarus
Years: 1920-1992 (aged 72)
Occupations: actorfilm directortheatrical director
Biography: Ludwik Benoit was a Polish film and theatre actor.

Janusz Majewski

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1931-2024 (aged 93)
Enrolled in Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School: Studied in 1961
Occupations: university teacherdirectorwriterscreenwriterpedagogue
Biography: Janusz Marian Majewski was a Polish film director and screenwriter.

Maria Sadowska

Born in: Poland
Years: 1976-.. (age 48)
Occupations: songwriterfilm directorsingerscreenwritercomposer
Biography: Maria Sadowska, also credited as Marysia Sadowska or simply as Marysia, is a Polish pop singer, music producer, screenwriter and film director.

Przemysław Sadowski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1975-.. (age 49)
Occupations: actor
Biography: Przemysław Sadowski is a Polish actor.

Krzysztof Stroiński

Born in: Poland
Years: 1950-.. (age 74)
Occupations: film actoractor
Biography: Krzysztof Stroiński is a Polish actor. He performed in more than forty films since 1971. He won the 2009 Polish Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in Scratch.

Zbigniew Rybczyński

Born in: Poland
Years: 1949-.. (age 75)
Occupations: directorcinematographeruniversity teacherfilm editorcamera operator
Biography: Zbigniew Rybczyński is a Polish filmmaker, director, cinematographer, screenwriter, creator of experimental animated films, and multimedia artist who has won numerous prestigious industry awards both in the United States and internationally including the 1982 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for Tango.

Anna Próchniak

Born in: Poland
Years: 1988-.. (age 36)
Occupations: film actoractor
Biography: Anna Próchniak is a Polish actress who initially trained as a dancer until deciding to switch to acting, graduating from the National Film School in Łódź. Próchniak's first major international film role was in The Innocents (Sundance Film Festival 2016) directed by Anne Fontaine. Her credits include Polish Warsaw 44 (2014), Northern Irish Bad Day for the Cut (Sundance Film Festival 2017), Latvian Oleg (Directors’ Fortnight section of the Festival de Cannes 2019) and Baptiste for BBC One (2019). Anna is a member of the European Film Academy (EFA).

Beata Pozniak

Born in: Poland
Years: 1960-.. (age 64)
Occupations: theatrical directorvoice actortelevision actormodelfilm director
Biography: Beata Poźniak is a Polish-American actress, film director, poet, painter and an Earphones Award-winning narrator. She is also a human rights activist who introduced the first bill in the history of US Congress to officially recognize International Women's Day in the United States.

Jerzy Antczak

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1929-.. (age 95)
Occupations: film directorscreenwritertheatrical director
Biography: Jerzy Antczak is a Polish film director. His film Nights and Days was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and was entered into the 26th Berlin International Film Festival. Jerzy Antczak was the co-founder, Artistic Director and Chief Producer of “Masterpiece Theatre” which was produced on Polish Television. He is currently a Professor Emeritus at UCLA.

Janusz Morgenstern

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1922-2011 (aged 89)
Occupations: film directorscreenwriterfilm producerdirector
Biography: Janusz "Kuba" Morgenstern was a Polish film director and producer.

Szymon Bobrowski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1972-.. (age 52)
Occupations: film actoractor
Biography: Szymon Bobrowski is a Polish actor.

Andrzej Precigs

Born in: Poland
Years: 1949-2023 (aged 74)
Occupations: actor
Biography: Andrzej Cezary Precigs was a Polish theatre, film and voice actor; dubbing director and local politician.

Anna Nowak

Born in: Poland
Years: 1966-.. (age 58)
Occupations: film actoractor
Biography: Anna Nowak-Ibisz is a Polish actress and TV presenter.

Joanna Koroniewska

Born in: Poland
Years: 1978-.. (age 46)
Occupations: film actoractor
Biography: Joanna Koroniewska is a Polish film, television and theater actress, best known for playing in the Polish TV series M jak miłość (L as in, Love).

Jerzy Matuszkiewicz

Born in: Poland
Years: 1928-2021 (aged 93)
Occupations: jazz musiciancomposersaxophonistfilm score composermusician
Biography: Jerzy "Duduś" Matuszkiewicz was a Polish jazz musician and composer, playing saxophone, clarinet and piano. Between 1950 and 1958, he was leader of the jazz group Melomani. From 1965, he focused on composing music for films. He was a pioneer of the post-World War II jazz movement in Poland, regarded as a "Founding Father" of Polish jazz.

Marcin Rogacewicz

Born in: Poland
Years: 1980-.. (age 44)
Occupations: television actoractor
Biography: Marcin Rogacewicz is a Polish television actor.

Tomasz Mędrzak

Born in: Poland
Years: 1954-.. (age 70)
Occupations: theatrical directoractor
Biography: Tomasz Mędrzak, was a teenage star of the 1973 In Desert and Wilderness movie and miniseries (1973), where he played Staś Tarkowski, having Monika Rosca as young partner. He is the son of Stefania Mędrzak.

Ireneusz Czop

Born in: Poland
Years: 1968-.. (age 56)
Occupations: actor
Biography: Ireneusz Czop is Polish actor best known for his roles in the films Somers Town (2008), Aftermath (2012), Jack Strong (2014), and Broad Peak (2022).

Mieczysław Kalenik

Born in: Poland
Years: 1933-2017 (aged 84)
Occupations: film actorstage actortelevision actor
Biography: Mieczysław Kalenik was a Polish actor.

Janusz Zaorski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1947-.. (age 77)
Occupations: film directorscreenwriteractordirector
Biography: Janusz Zaorski is a Polish film director, scenarist and actor, representative of the cinema of moral anxiety (Polish: kino moralnego niepokoju), trend in Polish cinema. Zaorski has directed mainly psychological dramas, comedies and TV series.

Teresa Szmigielówna

Years: 1929-2013 (aged 84)
Occupations: film actoractor
Biography: Teresa Szmigielówna was a Polish actress. She appeared in more than sixty films from 1951 to 2012.

Patrycja Volny

Born in: Germany
Years: 1988-.. (age 36)
Occupations: actorsingerfilm actor
Biography: Patrycja Volny is a German-born Polish actress known for her role as Dobra Nowina in the 2017 crime film Spoor, the Polish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards. She first appeared in 2012 legal drama television series True Law. She is the only daughter of the late Polish singer and songwriter Jacek Kaczmarski.

Filip Bajon

Born in: Poland
Years: 1947-.. (age 77)
Occupations: prose writerwriterdirectorscreenwriterfilm director
Biography: Filip Michał Bajon is a Polish film director and screenwriter.

Paweł Edelman

Born in: Poland
Years: 1958-.. (age 66)
Occupations: camera operatorcinematographer
Biography: Paweł Edelman is a Polish cinematographer. He is known for his collaborations with acclaimed directors Roman Polanski and Andrzej Wajda. He was named Best European Cinematographer in 2002 at the European Film Awards for his work on The Pianist, for which he also won the César Award for Best Cinematography. He was nominated for an Academy Award and a BAFTA for the same film. He also received a nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography from the American Society of Cinematographers for Ray. His credits include films both in and outside Poland.

Krystian Lupa

Born in: Poland
Years: 1943-.. (age 81)
Occupations: university teachergraphic artistplaywrighttheatrical directorwriter
Biography: Krystian Lupa is a Polish theatre director, set designer, playwright, translator and pedagogue. He has been called "the greatest living European theatre director".

Mariusz Treliński

Born in: Poland
Years: 1962-.. (age 62)
Occupations: film directortheatrical directorscreenwriterdirector
Biography: Mariusz Treliński is a Polish opera, theatre and film director as well as the artistic director of the Grand Theatre in Warsaw.

Stanisław Jędryka

Born in: Poland
Years: 1933-2019 (aged 86)
Occupations: screenwriterfilm director
Biography: Stanisław Jędryka was a Polish film director and writer. A graduate of the National Film School in Łódź (1956). Mostly known for films aimed at children and young adults, he directed 25 films between 1954 and 1992.

Ryszard Ronczewski

Years: 1930-2020 (aged 90)
Occupations: film directortheatrical directoractordirector
Biography: Ryszard Ronczewski was a Polish actor.