Jacek Koman (born 15 August 1956) is a Polish actor and singer.
Koman was born in Bielsko-Biaà Âa, Poland, to actors Halina Koman (née Dobrowolska; born 3 January 1923) and Adam Koman (24 December 1922 â 1 December 2005), and came to Australia in 1982 with his brother Tomek. They landed in Perth before heading over to Melbourne, where he began acting again.
Koman attended the National Film School in à Âódà º, where he studied acting alongside , Andrzej Szczytko and (1974âÂÂ78).
Koman's first professional stage appearance was as Lysander in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream in Bielsko-Biaà Âa in 1978.
He has worked with partner Catherine McClements a number of times, including on films Redheads and Floodhouse, an episode of Rush in 2009, and in theatre productions Angels in America (1994), The Blind Giant Is Dancing (1995), Macbeth (2003) and Cruel and Tender (2005).
In 2011, Koman was nominated for an AACTA award for his guest performance in Spirited. In 2012, he appeared as 'The Great Hypno' in the Australian television series Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries.
In 2013, he returned to the stage after an eight-year absence, in Tom Holloway's translation of Durrenmatt's Dance of Death at the Malthouse Theatre in Melbourne.
Koman was announced as part of the cast for Disney Plus series Last Days of the Space Age.
In 2021 played Remy, a minor character in the third season of the Australian black-comedy Mr Inbetween.
In Conclave, he appears as Archbishop Woà ºniak, the Prefect of the Papal Household and the late pope's confidant.
Koman is also the lead singer of VulgarGrad, a Melbourne band who play Russian-style music and who formed in 2004.
Koman met his partner, Australian actress Catherine McClements, in the late 1980s at the Anthill Theatre in Melbourne. They have two children together.