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The icon of Polish cinematography, known both in Poland and abroad, has played 120 different roles with the greatest directors. Zany, with his extravagant behavior, remains an undisputed star of great importance.

Born in Łowicz, he grew up in Drohiczyn, but graduated from high school in Warsaw. From an early age he dreamed of being an actor, for the first time on the theater stage he appeared in a school play directed by his mother. He allegedly got into the acting school with the highest number of points in the year, but he gave it up to fully devote himself to an acting career.

He appeared on the glass screen for the first time thanks to Janusz Nasfeter, engaging Olbrychski in the role of a young corporal in the film Wounded in the Forest ” based on the novel by Witold Zalewski. At that time, the actor was only 218 years old, he was just starting his acting school and still belonged to the TVP Youth Theater, whose guardian was Andrzej Konica at the time. In 1965, the young actor’s long-term cooperation with the excellent Polish director Andrzej Wajda began. Olbrychski himself claims that it was thanks to the opportunity given by Wajda that the door to the West opened for him. In 1965, the director offered him a role in “Popioły”. Since then, he became a new star of Polish cinema and began to appear regularly in films. In the same year, he appeared in Morgenstern’s “Then Will Be Silence”. It was a military-psychological drama. As an athlete, we could see him in Julian Dziedzina’s “Boxer” (the title role was played by the then Polish and European boxing champion Leszek Drogosz) and an athlete in “Jowita”. Zbyszek Cybulski, Irena Kwiatkowska and Kalina Jędrusik starred with him in the film.

Olbrychski then appeared in such excellent productions as Landscape after the Battle, based on Tadeusz Borowski’s stories (he played Tadeusz, a young poet struggling with reality after leaving the concentration camp), Wesele (the role of the groom), The Promised Land (he portrayed in the form of a nobleman dreaming of an industrial career) or “Maidens from Wolf” (the role of Wktor Rubene, who returns to his homeland after many years). He is permanently remembered by viewers with his performances in screen adaptations of Sienkiewicz’s novels. In “Pan Wołodyjowski” he played Asia Tuhajbejowicz, in “The Deluge” by Kmicic (this role aroused considerable controversy, many considered it absurd for Olbrychski to play this character, but after the premiere of the film this role was hailed as brilliant, simply legendary), and in “Ogniem and sword” from 1999, he played the smaller role of Tuhaj-bey.

He became known to Western cinema thanks to his roles in such films as “The Tin Drum” by Volker Schlöndorff, “Both and Others” by Claude Lelouch, “Diagonal of a Messenger” by Richard Dembo or “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” by Philip Kaufman.

Outside of the cinema, the actor constantly appears in the theater. He was associated with the Powszechny Theater and the National Theater in Warsaw. His theatrical debut was in 1969. Since then, he has played most of the roles that actors dream of. In this way, we could see him as Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, Beniowski or Cześnik. He performed on the boards of both Polish and foreign theaters. He has been awarded many times for his acting achievements. The actor is a laureate of, among others, the Golden Mask, the Golden Camera, the Zbyszek Cybulski. In 1999, he received his star in the Avenue of Stars on ul. Piotrkowska in Łódź.

Privately, he was married three times, his current partner is Krystyna Dębska. He has four children: three daughters and one son, Rafał, who is also an actor, and a musician.

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Luke Damon Goss (born 29 September 1968) is an English actor, and drummer of the 1980s band Bros. He has appeared in numerous films including Blade II (2002) as Jared Nomak, One Night with the King (2006) as King Xerxes, Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) as Prince Nuada, Tekken (2009) as Steve Fox, Interview with a Hitman (2012) as Viktor, and Traffik (2018) as Red.
Goss, along with twin brother Matt Goss, started his career with the 1980s boy band Bros. In total he has charted with thirteen hit singles in the UK.
When Bros broke up in the early 1990s, Goss worked with the Band of Thieves where he released two singles “Sweeter Than The Midnight Rain” and “Give Me One More Chance”, he then released “L.I.F.E.” under the band’s name change Thieves Like Us due to a change in lineup. His autobiography “I Owe You Nothing” was a top 10 best seller and went on to have three subsequent printings. He also began to appear in stage musicals including Grease and What a Feeling, and has turned to acting in films full-time, with his first most notable role being the villain in Blade II. He also appeared as The Creature in the Hallmark Channel’s Frankenstein. Goss can be seen in the 2004 crime drama, Charlie in which he plays real-life gangster Charlie Richardson. In the 2005 comedy The Man, he starred as another villain, Joey/Kane, alongside Eugene Levy and Samuel L. Jackson.
He has since had roles in One Night with the King, as King Xerxes. He appeared in Bone Dry, as Eddie and in the thriller Unearthed, as Kale. Goss received a CAMIE (Character and Morality in Entertainment) Award for his work in One Night with the King on 12 May 2007 at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles. Both One Night with the King and Bone Dry were viewed at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. Bone Dry premiered in Los Angeles on 9 January 2008.
In the autumn of 2008, Goss returned from filming Hellboy II: The Golden Army in Budapest, Hungary, in which he plays Prince Nuada. The sequel was released in North America on 11 July 2008.
In February 2008 he signed to play the role of Steve Fox in Tekken, which was filmed in Shreveport, Louisiana. He was seen in a commercial for the new Cadillac Escalade Hybrid. In January 2010, Goss won the role as Frankenstein in Death Race 2which was originally played by Jason Statham in the first film, under the direction from Roel Reiné, which began shooting on location in Eastern Europe in February 2010. Goss also played the lead role in Syfy’s dark tale television film Witchville In May 2010, he won the Ultimate Badass Award at the PollyGrind Film Festival for his role in the zombie-vampire film The Dead Undead. In February 2018, Goss released his directorial debut Your Move.

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Cezary Pazura was born in 1962 in Niewiadow, Lódzkie, Poland. He is an actor and producer, known for Kroll (1991), Tato (1995), and Three Colors: White (1994),… Cezary is a very popular Polish national actor. He graduated from The Film School in Lodz.  He collaborated with such directors as Andrzej Wajda, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Wladyslaw Pasikowski. Cezary Pazura played in over 70 films…

” He has the talent of Marx Brothers, Jim Carrey’s mimics and Charlie Chaplin’s understanding”  Maciej Ślesicki