Joanna Kulig

Known for ActingBorn 1982-06-24 (age 44)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 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 similarRead more

Movies & web series

On the Edge

Lead Children

Masters of the Air

The Office PL

Way Back Home

Fatherland

Hanna

Cold War

Teraz albo nigdy!

The Trap

Ekipa

O mnie się nie martw

Ida

The Innocents

Knox Goes Away

The Spider's Web

Remembrance

Days of Honor

7 Emotions

Spies of Warsaw

Clergy

The Eddy

Kompromat

Los numeros

Woman of...

She Came to Me

Safe Inside

Wild Wild East

Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters

The Crime

Play

Warsaw by Night

Everyone Knows Better

Pitbull: Tough Women

Elles

The Woman in the Fifth

Disco Polo

Trzeci oficer

Sophie Seeks 7

Lasting

Love Is Everything

Janosik

Million Dollars

I Am Lying Now

Island

Wednesday, Thursday Morning

Talking Heads 2021

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