Born Andrzej Spektor, June 23, 1968 in Legnica, Poland. In 1988 Spektor left communist Poland for Israel in search of independence, adventure and dreams of acting. He worked in a kibbutz picking bananas, lemons and avocados. He studied Economics and Management at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. After completing his studies he worked at the Central Bureau of Statistics in Tel-Aviv. In 1999 he moved to Los Angeles. He studied method acting at the famed Lee Strasberg Theater Institute in West Hollywood (its famous graduates include Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and Marlon Brando) and is also a graduate of the Meisner Technique program at the acclaimed Joanne Baron Studio in Santa Monica. Spektor studied with numerous other coaches including…
Born August 5, 1947 in Gałkowice, Poland. Graduated the Academy for the Dramatic Arts in Cracow in 1969. He has performed with the Juliusz Słowacki Theater in Cracow since 1969.
Since the late 1960 he has participated in over 100 theater, TV and film productions. As Dziędziel admitted in an interview with culture.pl: “I’m always different, hardly recognizable, and usually in the background.” However, in 2005 director Wojciech Smarzowski cast Dziędziel in the role of Wiesław Wojnar in the feature film Wesele. For this performance, the actor received numerous awards, including Polish Film Awards Best Actor (2005) and Gdynia Film Festival Best Actor Award (2004). Since then he has hardly left the big screen. It is never too…
Born in 1978 in Toruń, Poland. She graduated the Ludwik Skolski Academy for the Dramatic Arts in Cracow in 2001. She has been nominated for the prestigious Zbyszek Cybulski Award in 2009 and 2011 for her roles in Wojna polsko-ruska and Kret respectively.
Born June 6, 1954 in Warsaw, Poland. A graduate of the Wrocław University in cultural studies (1976) and of film directing at the Radio and Television Faculty of Silesian University in Katowice (1982). She was the literary director of Stefan Jaracz Theatre in Olsztyn in 1977 and 1978. In 1979, while still in film school she was Andrzej Wajda’s assistant on Panny z Wilka.
She begun her film career with documentaries, including Nostalgia (1983) and Cud (1984). For her feature debut Przez dotyk (By Touch, 1985) she won multiple Polish and international awards, including Grand Prix at Créteil International Women’s Film Festival in 1985. She won Grand Prix at Young and Cinema Festival in 1989 for the feature…
Born on December 12, 1988 in Lublin, Poland. Próchniak is one of the most promising and talented young actresses in Poland. She graduated from the National Film School in Łodź in 2013. Próchniak has received several Polish and international awards for her theatrical debut in Natasha's Dream (Marzenie Nataszy) performed at the Teatr Powszechny in Warsaw as well as her film debut for the role of Irmina in Shameless (Bez wstydu) directed by Filip Marczewski, highly acclaimed by Polish and American press. In 2014 she received Elle magazine's Rising Star award for “a riveting stage personality and great talent” in Warsaw 44 (Miasto 44) directed by Jan Komasa. She has been working on several new projects, including Agnus…
Born in 1988 in Hajnówka, Poland. Bobik studied at the University of Physical Education in Warsaw and graduated from the Warsaw Film School. He debuted in The Holy Sinner in 2013.
For his roles in Pinky and Charon he was nominated for the Polish Independent Film Award.
Born on May 26, 1984, in Cracow, Poland. Graduated the National Film School in Łódź with a degree in screenwriting. He is the creator of the acclaimed feature documentary One Billion Happy People (produced by HBO), based on Chinese adventures of Polish disco-folk band Bayer Full. He debuted with a short film I Love You So Much in 2009 and a documentary Reception in 2011 as part of the documentary program at the Munk Studio. He is the co-author of a feature film The Room which among many accolades received Best Independent Film award at the 37th Gdynia Film Festival, and was chosen by Dziennik Polski newspaper as one of the top 10 Polish films of 2012. His…
Born on December 19, 1946 in Wrocław, Poland. He was a student of Polish Studies at the University of Warsaw and the Warsaw Fine Arts Academy. Bromski graduated from the National Film School in Łódź in 1978 with a degree in film directing. He debuted as a film director in 1984 with a Ceremonia pogrzebowa which won him the “Best Directing Debut” at the 1985 Gdynia Film Festival. He is the president of the Polish Filmmakers Association and over the past three decades he has directed several of Poland’s biggest box office hits. See more about Jacek Bromski on culture.pl (article in Polish).