Jan Frycz
{{short description|Polish actor}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Jan Frycz
| image = Jan Frycz 2013.jpg
| caption = Frycz in 2013
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1954|05|15}}
| birth_place = Kraków, Poland
| death_date =
| death_place =
| nationality = Polish
| education = National Academy of Theatre Arts in Kraków
| occupation = Actor
| years_active = 1976–present
| spouse = Małgorzata Frycz
| children = 5
}}
Jan Frycz ({{IPA|pl|jan frɨt͡ʂ|lang}}; born 15 May 1954) is a film, television and stage actor. He was nominated for seven Polish Film Awards, winning three times for Best Supporting Actor in the films Pornografia (2003), The Welts (2004){{Cite web|title=FilmPolski.pl|url=https://www.filmpolski.pl/fp/index.php|access-date=2021-07-03|website=FilmPolski|language=pl}} and 25 Years of Innocence (2021).{{Cite web |url=https://tvn24.pl/kultura-i-styl/polskie-nagrody-filmowe-orly-2021-lista-nagrodzonych-st5127424#:~:text=Jan%20Holoubek,%20Piotr%20Trojan,%20Agata%20Kulesza |language=pl |title=Twórcy "25 lat niewinności. Sprawa Tomka Komendy" z Orłami 2021 |website=tvn24.pl |date=21 June 2021 |access-date=6 October 2024}}
Biography
Frycz's father was a mining engineer and disliked his interest in acting; he argued that a boy should have a more stable job.{{Cite web|last=Mozelowska|first=Zofia|date=2018-05-15|title=Doskonały aktor, surowy ojciec. Jan Frycz kończy 64 lata|url=https://film.wp.pl/doskonaly-aktor-surowy-ojciec-jan-frycz-konczy-64-lata-6252020962686593g/2|access-date=2021-07-03|website=film.wp.pl|language=pl}} Despite his father's wishes, Frycz pursued acting and graduated from the AST National Academy of Theatre Arts in Kraków in 1978. He made his theatre debut in the same year in the Juliusz Słowacki Theatre where he continued performing in the years 1978-82 and 1984-89.
He spent two years in 1982-84 working in Warsaw at the National Theatre and the Polish Theatre, before returning to Kraków where he continued working at the Juliusz Słowacki Theatre, and from 1989 till 2006 at the National Stary Theatre.{{Cite web|title=Jan Frycz, aktor Teatru Narodowego - Aktorzy Teatru Narodowego - Zespół - O Teatrze - Teatr Narodowy|url=https://www.narodowy.pl/o_teatrze,zespol,aktorki_i_aktorzy,39,jan_frycz.html|access-date=2021-07-03|website=www.narodowy.pl}}
He made his screen debut in Norwegian film Dagny in 1976. In the second half of the 1970s and 1980s, he focused mainly on his theatre work, playing only a few, mostly episodic roles.
Since 2006, he is an actor of the National Theatre in Warsaw.
Frycz is married to his third wife and has a daughter from the first marriage and four children from the second marriage.{{Cite web |title=Jan Frycz: Kariera, 3 żony, 6 dzieci |url=https://film.interia.pl/wiadomosci/news-jan-frycz-kariera-3-zony-6-dzieci,nId,1803294 |access-date=2022-03-20 |website=film.interia.pl |language=pl}} His daughters Gabriela and Olga are actresses.{{Cite web|title=Jan Frycz: Kariera, 3 żony, 6 dzieci|url=https://film.interia.pl/wiadomosci/news-jan-frycz-kariera-3-zony-6-dzieci,nId,1803294|access-date=2021-07-03|website=film.interia.pl|language=pl}}
Awards
- 2005 – Silver Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis{{Citation |title=MKiDN - Medal Zasłużony Kulturze - Gloria Artis |url=http://mkidn.gov.pl/pages/strona-glowna/ministerstwo/odznaczenia/medal-zasluzony-kulturze---gloria-artis.php |language=pl |access-date=2022-03-25}}
- 2005 – Order of Polonia Restituta{{Cite web |title=Postanowienie Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej z dnia 11 listopada 2005 r. o nadaniu orderów i odznaczeń |url=https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WMP20060020021 |access-date=2022-03-25 |website=isap.sejm.gov.pl}}
- 2015 – Silver Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis
Selected filmography
| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Film |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 2020
|'Stary' | |
| 2011
|Baginski | |
| 2010
| Wasiak | |
| 2007
|Hope |Gustaw | |
| 2007
| | |
| 2006
| | |
| 2005
|Chudy | |
| 2004
|Andrzej Winkler | |
| 2003
|Siemian | |
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|296809}}
- [http://www.filmpolski.pl/fp/index.php/113511 Profile on filmpolski.pl {{in lang|pl}}]
- [https://archive.today/20130416091403/http://www.culture.pl/web/english/resources-theatre-full-page/-/eo_event_asset_publisher/eAN5/content/jan-frycz Profile] at culture.pl
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Category:Male actors from Kraków
Category:Polish male film actors
Category:Polish male stage actors
Category:Recipients of the Order of Polonia Restituta
Category:20th-century Polish male actors
Category:21st-century Polish male actors
Category:Polish television actors
Category:Recipients of the Silver Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis
Category:Recipients of the Gold Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis
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