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Krystyna Janda
Starachowice, Poland
Krystyna Jolanta Janda (Polish: [krɨˈstɨ.na ˈjan.da]; born 18 December 1952) is a Polish film and theatre actress, director, and singer. She is best known internationally for play…
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Krystyna Jolanta Janda (Polish: [krɨˈstɨ.na ˈjan.da]; born 18 December 1952) is a Polish film and theatre actress, director, and singer. She is best known internationally for playing leading roles in several films by Polish film director Andrzej Wajda, including Man of Marble (Człowiek z marmuru, 1976) and Man of Iron (Człowiek z żelaza, 1981). She is widely considered one of the most popular and successful Polish actresses of her generation and an icon of Polish cinema. In 1981, she played in the Academy Award-winning movie Mephisto. In 1982, she played the lead character in Ryszard Bugajski's film Przesłuchanie (Interrogation), which first premiered seven years later in 1989, following the collapse of communism. Despite the film's late release, she garnered international acclaim for her performance, including winning Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival and Polish Film Festival in 1990. Janda is also known for her leading role in the second episode of Dekalog series of Krzysztof Kieślowski. In 2020, she won the Polish Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in drama film Dolce Fine Giornata. Her accolades and honours also include the Zbigniew Cybulski Award (1978), Gold Cross of Merit (1989), Gloria Artis Gold Medal for Merit to Culture (2005), Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2011), and Special Jury Award for Acting at the Sundance Film Festival (2019). Because of her prominent role in Polish culture, has been described as a "legend of Polish cinema and theatre" and a "national treasure". Description above from the Wikipedia article Krystyna Janda, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2026
The Doll
Movie Joanna Karolowa
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2025
Pan Olbrychski
Movie Self
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2024
The Clowns
Movie Krystyna Janda
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2023
Still Here
TV show Maria Czułkowska
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2022
My Agent
TV show
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2022
How I Fell in Love with a Gangster
Movie Rita
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2021
Talking Heads 2021
Movie Self
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2021
Kayko and Kokosh
TV show Flying School Principal (voice)
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2020
Kill It and Leave This Town
Movie Janek's Mother (voice)
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2020
Królestwo kobiet
TV show Ineza Klin
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2019
1989
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2019
Dolce Fine Giornata
Movie Maria Linde
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2018
Julius
Movie Krystyna Janda
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2017
Młynarski. Piosenka finałowa
Movie Self
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2017
Zygmunt Hübner. Gra z rzeczywistością
Movie Self
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2015
Aktorka
Movie (archive footage) (uncredited)
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2015
Damaged
Movie Dulska, babka Melanii
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2014
All About My Parents
Movie Grandmother
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2013
We Film the People!
Movie Self
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2013
Wałesa: Man of Hope
Movie Agnieszka (archive footage) (uncredited)
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2011
In Treatment
TV show Barbara Lewicka-Lukas
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2011
Elles
Movie Mutter
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2010
Kręć! Jak kochasz to kręć!
Movie Self
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2009
Reverse
Movie Matka/Babcia Sabiny
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2009
Sweet Rush
Movie Marta / Actress
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2007
A Few People, a Little Time
Movie Jadwiga
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2005
The Call of the Toad
Movie Aleksandra Piatkowska
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2005
Solidarność, Solidarność...
Movie Self
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2002
Przedwiośnie
TV show Jadwiga Barykowa
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2001
Przedwiośnie
Movie Jadwiga Barykowa
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2001
Weiser
Movie Elka
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2000
The Yellow Scarf
Movie
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2000
Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease
Movie Anna
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1998
Weekend Stories: Unwritten Law
Movie Halina
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1997
An Air So Pure
Movie Mme Leduroy
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1996
Matka swojej matki
Movie Ewa Kozłowska
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1996
Pestka
Movie Agata
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1995
Tato
Movie Magda, lawyer
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1993
Kuchnia polska
TV show Margaret Szymanko, żona Stanisława
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1993
Der große Bellheim
TV show Maria Bellheim
