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Joanna Kulig
Krynica-Zdrój, Poland
Joanna Kulig-Bochniak (born June 24, 1982) is a Polish actress and singer. Noted for performing in different languages, she has worked in film, television and radio as well as on…
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Joanna Kulig-Bochniak (born June 24, 1982) is a Polish actress and singer. Noted for performing in different languages, she has worked in film, television and radio as well as on stage. She is the recipient of a European Film Award and two Polish Film Awards, and her work has been recognised at various film festivals. In 2018, Polish magazine Wprost included her among the 50 most influential Poles for her contributions to the cinema of Poland. After an unsuccessful attempt at a career as a jazz singer, Kulig enrolled at the AST National Academy of Theatre Arts in Kraków, graduating in 2007. She began performing on stage while still in drama school, debuting in the play A Midsummer Night's Dream. Her first starring film role in the 2007 drama Wednesday, Thursday Morning won her the award for Best Debut at the Gdynia Film Festival. She received further acclaim for her performance in the 2011 film Elles, which earned her Best Supporting Actress at the Polish Film Awards and Gdynia Film Festival. Kulig was born on 24 June 1982 in Krynica, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland. Her mother worked as a cook at a local kindergarten and her father was a folk poet. She was raised in a musical family along with four siblings—two older brothers and two younger sisters—in Muszynka. One of her sisters, Justyna Schneider, is also an actress and adopted their great-grandmother's surname to avoid confusion as their first names are similar
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2026
Wild Wild East
Movie
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2026
Fatherland
Movie Singer in a jazz band
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2026
Lead Children
TV show Jolanta Wadowska-Król
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2025
Island
Movie Joanna
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2024
Woman of...
Movie Iza
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2024
Knox Goes Away
Movie Annie
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2024
Masters of the Air
TV show Paulina
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2023
She Came to Me
Movie Magdalena Szyskowski
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2022
Kompromat
Movie Svetlana
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2022
Everyone Knows Better
Movie Ania
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2021
The Office PL
TV show Michalina Biegun
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2021
The Spider's Web
TV show Kornelia Titko
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2021
Talking Heads 2021
Movie Self
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2020
The Eddy
TV show Maja
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2019
Safe Inside
Movie Sylvia
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2019
I Am Lying Now
Movie Agentka
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2019
Hanna
TV show Johanna
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2018
Love Is Everything
Movie Magda Rodzińska
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2018
7 Emotions
Movie Mama Gosi
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2018
Clergy
Movie Hanka Tomala
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2018
The Trap
TV show Justyna Mateja
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2018
Play
Movie Mother
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2018
Cold War
Movie Zuzanna 'Zula' Lichoń
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2016
Pitbull: Tough Women
Movie 'Zuza'
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2016
The Innocents
Movie Nun Irena
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2015
Disco Polo
Movie Anka "Gensonina"
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2015
Warsaw by Night
Movie Marek's Ex-Lover (segment "Iga")
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2014
The Crime
TV show Posterunkowa Monika Krajewska
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2014
O mnie się nie martw
TV show Iga Małecka
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2014
Sophie Seeks 7
Movie Patrycja
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2013
Way Back Home
Movie Yalka
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2013
Ida
Movie Singer
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2013
On the Edge
TV show Sylwia Zawada, żona Edwarda
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2013
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
Movie Red Haired Witch
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2013
Spies of Warsaw
TV show
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2013
Lasting
Movie Marta, koleżanka Kariny
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2011
Remembrance
Movie Magdalena Limonowska
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2011
The Woman in the Fifth
Movie Ania
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2011
Elles
Movie Alicja
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2011
Dance Marathon
Movie Agnieszka
