Grażyna Szapołowska
{{Short description|Polish actress (born 1953)}}
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| birth_place = Bydgoszcz, Poland
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| alma_mater = National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw
| nationality = Polish
| occupation = Actress
| years_active = 1972–present
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Grażyna Szapołowska ({{IPA|pl|ɡraˈʐɨna ʂapɔˈwɔfska}}; born 19 September 1953) is a Polish film and theatre actress.
Life and career
She was born in Bydgoszcz. The father was of Latvian-Polish descent, and mother, Wanda, was Lithuanian-Polish descent.{{Cite web |title=Grażyna Szapołowska: przyjadę do Święcian tego lata |url=http://www.wilnoteka.lt/artykul/grazyna-szapolowska-przyjade-do-swiecian-tego-lata |access-date=2022-03-23 |website=Wilnoteka |language=pl}} She has a sister, Lidia, who is 11 years older.{{Cite web |title=Grażyna Szapołowska: Czułe ręce mojej matki |url=https://kobieta.interia.pl/gwiazdy/news-grazyna-szapolowska-czule-rece-mojej-matki,nId,1859958 |access-date=2022-03-23 |website=kobieta.interia.pl |language=pl}} After passing the baccalauréat she joined at Wroclaw Theatre of Pantomime. In 1977 she graduated from the National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw. From 1977 until 1984 she was in the theatrical company of the National Theatre, Warsaw.{{cite news|url=https://culture.pl/pl/tworca/grazyna-szapolowska |title=Grażyna Szapołowska |access-date=17 April 2020}}
She starred in Károly Makk's 1982 Hungarian film Another Way which portrays a lesbian relationship, A Short Film About Love (1988) by Polish film director Krzysztof Kieślowski, and in its earlier and shorter form the sixth episode of Dekalog.{{cite news|url=https://www.filmpolski.pl/fp/index.php?osoba=113265 |title=Grażyna Szapołowska |access-date=17 April 2020}} It was she who suggested to Kieslowski the different ending of the full-length version. For that role she received the Polish Film Award at the 13th Gdynia Film Festival. She had previously starred in another Kieslowski film, Bez końca.{{cite news|url=https://www.filmweb.pl/person/Gra%C5%BCyna+Szapo%C5%82owska-425 |title=Grażyna Szapołowska |access-date=17 April 2020}} She is also widely known for her portrayal of Telimena in Andrzej Wajda's 1999 film Pan Tadeusz, an adaptation of Adam Mickiewicz's epic poem of the same name.{{cite news|url=https://culture.pl/pl/tworca/grazyna-szapolowska |title=Grażyna Szapołowska |access-date=17 April 2020}} She was honoured with the Polish Academy Award for Best Actress for that role.
In 2008 she was one of the contestants of the Polish version of Soapstar Superstar reality singing competition.{{Cite web |title=Szapołowska: Wykonano na mnie publiczny wyrok |url=https://www.tokfm.pl/Tokfm/7,103085,9446283,szapolowska-wykonano-na-mnie-publiczny-wyrok.html |access-date=2022-03-23 |website=TOK FM |language=pl}}
She also performed on stage as an interpreter of an actor's song. She sings in a soprano.
Filmography
File:Grażyna Szapołowska by Foksal.jpg
- 1974 Najważniejszy dzień życia, episode Telefon (Telephone)
- 1977 Parada oszustów (Chet's Parade)
- 1978 Zapach ziemi (The Smell of Earth)
- 1978 Osiemdziesięciu huzarów (80 Hussars)
- 1981 Wielka majówka (The Big Picnic)
- 1982 Wielki Szu (Big Shar)
- 1982 Egymásra nézve (Another Way)
- 1983 Lata dwudzieste... lata trzydzieste... (The Twenties, the Thirties )
- 1983 Nadzór (Custody)
- 1984 Bez końca (No End)
- 1984 Szirmok, virágok, koszorúk (The Flowers of Reverie)
- 1984 Przyspieszenie (To accelerate)
- 1985 Medium
- 1985 By Touch (Przez dotyk)
- 1986 Magnat (The Magnate)
- 1986 Biała wizytówka (White visiting-card)
- 1987 Tabu (Taboo)
- 1987 Zagon
- 1987 Первая встреча, последняя встреча (СССР)
- 1988 Hanussen
- 1988 Krótki film o miłości (A Short Film About Love)
- 1989 A Tale of Adam Mickiewicz's 'Forefathers' Eve'
- 1991 Żegnaj, cudzoziemko (Goodbye foreigner)
- 1991 Lebewohl, Fremde
- 1991 The Conviction
- 1992 Piękna nieznajoma (A Beautiful Stranger)
- 1993 Piazza di Spagna (The Spanish Square)
- 1997 Kroniki domowe
- 1997 {{ill|Our God's Brother (film)|pl|3=Brat naszego Boga (film)|lt=Our God's Brother}}
- 1999 Pan Tadeusz (Pan Tadeusz: The Last Foray in Lithuania)
- 2004 Nachbarinnen (Wanted!)
- 2005 Ewa paliła Camele
- 2005 Karol: A Man Who Became Pope
- 2006 Just Love Me
- 2006 Magda M.
- 2007 Ryś
- 2007 Jutro idziemy do kina
- 2008 Nie kłam kochanie
- 2011 {{ill|Easter Goes Polish|de|Polnische Ostern}}
- 2013 Run Boy Run as Ewa Staniak
- 2017 Nie kłam kochanie
See also
References
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{{Polish Academy Award for Best Actress}}
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Category:Actors from Bydgoszcz
Category:20th-century Polish actresses
Category:21st-century Polish actresses
Category:Polish film actresses
Category:Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw alumni
Category:Polish stage actresses
Category:Recipients of the Gold Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis