GraÃ
¼yna SzapoÃ
Âowska (; born 19 September 1953) is a Polish film and theatre actress.
Life and career
She was born in Bydgoszcz. The father was of Latvian-Polish descent, and mother, Wanda, was Lithuanian-Polish descent. She has a sister, Lidia, who is 11 years older. After passing the baccalauréat she joined at Wroclaw Theatre of Pantomime. In 1977 she graduated from the National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw. From 1977 until 1984 she was in the theatrical company of the National Theatre, Warsaw.
She starred in Károly Makk's 1982 Hungarian film Another Way which portrays a lesbian relationship, A Short Film About Love (1988) by Polish film director Krzysztof KieÃ
Âlowski, and in its earlier and shorter form the of Dekalog. It was she who suggested to Kieslowski the different ending of the full-length version. For that role she received the Polish Film Award at the 13th Gdynia Film Festival. She had previously starred in another Kieslowski film, Bez koÃ
Âca. She is also widely known for her portrayal of Telimena in Andrzej Wajda's 1999 film Pan Tadeusz, an adaptation of Adam Mickiewicz's epic poem of the same name. She was honoured with the Polish Academy Award for Best Actress for that role.
In 2008 she was one of the contestants of the Polish version of Soapstar Superstar reality singing competition.
She also performed on stage as an interpreter of an actor's song. She sings in a soprano.
Filmography
- 1974 NajwaÃ
¼niejszy dzieÃ
 Ã
¼ycia, episode Telefon (Telephone)
- 1977 Parada oszustów (Chet's Parade)
- 1978 Zapach ziemi (The Smell of Earth)
- 1978 OsiemdziesiÃÂciu huzarów (80 Hussars)
- 1981 Wielka majówka (The Big Picnic)
- 1982 Wielki Szu (Big Shar)
- 1982 Egymásra nézve (Another Way)
- 1983 Lata dwudzieste... lata trzydzieste... (The Twenties, the Thirties )
- 1983 Nadzór (Custody)
- 1984 Bez koÃ
Âca (No End)
- 1984 Szirmok, virágok, koszorúk (The Flowers of Reverie)
- 1984 Przyspieszenie (To accelerate)
- 1985 Medium
- 1985 By Touch (Przez dotyk)
- 1986 Magnat (The Magnate)
- 1986 BiaÃ
Âa wizytówka (White visiting-card)
- 1987 Tabu (Taboo)
- 1987 Zagon
- 1987 ÃÂõÃÂòðàòÃÂÃÂÃÂõÃÂð, ÿþÃÂûõôýÃÂàòÃÂÃÂÃÂõÃÂð (áááà)
- 1988 Hanussen
- 1988 Krótki film o miÃ
ÂoÃ
Âci (A Short Film About Love)
- 1989 A Tale of Adam Mickiewicz's 'Forefathers' Eve'
- 1991 Ã
»egnaj, cudzoziemko (Goodbye foreigner)
- 1991 Lebewohl, Fremde
- 1991 The Conviction
- 1992 PiÃÂkna nieznajoma (A Beautiful Stranger)
- 1993 Piazza di Spagna (The Spanish Square)
- 1997 Kroniki domowe
- 1997 Our God's Brother
- 1999 Pan Tadeusz (Pan Tadeusz: The Last Foray in Lithuania)
- 2004 Nachbarinnen (Wanted!)
- 2005 Ewa paliÃ
Âa Camele
- 2005 '
- 2006 Just Love Me
- 2006 Magda M.
- 2007 RyÃ
Â
- 2007 Jutro idziemy do kina
- 2008 Nie kÃ
Âam kochanie
- 2011 '
- 2013 Run Boy Run as Ewa Staniak
- 2017 Nie kÃ
Âam kochanie
See also
References