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Joanna Pacula
Tomaszów Lubelski, Lubelskie, Poland
Joanna Pacula (born January 2, 1957) is a Polish actress. Pacula joined Warsaw Dramatic Theatre where she acted until 1981. She started her career playing in productions of Shakes…
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Joanna Pacula (born January 2, 1957) is a Polish actress. Pacula joined Warsaw Dramatic Theatre where she acted until 1981. She started her career playing in productions of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Othello and As You Like It. She also found work in a handful of films, including Krzysztof Zanussi's Barwy ochronne/Camouflage (1977). In 1981, Pacula was caught in Paris when communist authorities in Poland declared martial law. In 1982 she eventually emigrated to the U.S. where she has specialized in playing European temptresses since her feature debut opposite William Hurt in Gorky Park (1983). She played the part of the exotic beauty in numerous American TV series and movies, including the Holocaust drama Escape From Sobibor (CBS, 1987), The Kiss (1988), E.A.R.T.H. Force (CBS, 1990), and the TV series, The Colony (ABC, 1996). She was featured in Marked for Death (1990) as an expert on Jamaican voodoo and gangs; in the Italian erotic thriller Husbands And Lovers (1992) as a free spirited adultress (which featured a rather controversial bare-bottom spanking scene, a first in a mainstream film); Tombstone (1993) as Doc Holliday's lover, Kate (also known as Big Nose Kate and Mary Catherine Haroney, born November 7, 1850); in The Haunted Sea (1997); and in the movie Virus (1999), playing a Russian scientist. She currently resides in Southern California. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joanna Pacula, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2023
Buckle Up
Movie Evelyn Elger
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2020
Break Even
Movie Agent Crowe
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2013
Kill Her, Not Me
Movie Judith
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2013
ICE Agent
Movie Sheila Hayman
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2013
Madoff: Made Off with America
Movie Ruth Madoff
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2012
Stolen Child
Movie Tatiana
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2010
Black Widow
Movie Olivia
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2009
Amazing Racer
Movie Emily Blair
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2008
Chicano Blood
Movie The Judge
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2007
When Nietzsche Wept
Movie Mathilda
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2006
Forget About It
Movie Talia Nitti
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2006
Honor
Movie Rose Tyrell
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2005
The Cutter
Movie Elizabeth Teller
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2005
Bones
TV show Drina Mirga
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2004
Dead Easy
Movie Theresa
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2004
Moscow Heat
Movie Sasha
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2004
El padrino: The Latin Godfather
Movie Jessica Lancaster
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2004
Dinocroc
Movie Paula Kennedy
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2003
Lightning: Bolts of Destruction
Movie Valery Landis
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2002
No Place Like Home
Movie Gretchen Klein
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2002
Warrior Angels
Movie Elizabeth
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2002
Monk
TV show Leyla Zlatavich
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2002
Cupid's Prey
Movie Iris Wetherton
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2001
The Hit
Movie Sonia
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2000
Crash and Byrnes
Movie Lissette
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2000
Brutally Normal
TV show Gogi
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1999
The Art of Murder
Movie Elizabeth Sheridan
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1999
Error in Judgment
Movie Liz
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1999
Virus
Movie Nadia Vinogradova
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1998
The White Raven
Movie Julia Konneman
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1998
Sweet Deception
Movie Risa Gallagher
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1998
My Giant
Movie Lilliana Rotaru
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1997
The Haunted Sea
Movie 1st Mate Bergren
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1997
Business for Pleasure
Movie Anna
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1997
In Praise of Older Women
Movie Marta
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1997
Heaven Before I Die
Movie Selma
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1996
The Colony
Movie Noelle Simms
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1995
Captain Nuke and the Bomber Boys
Movie Brenda Franelli
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1995
Last Gasp
Movie Nora Weeks
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1995
Not Like Us
Movie Anita Clark
