Krystyna Sienkiewicz
{{Short description|Polish actress and singer (1935–2017)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2019}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Krystyna Sienkiewicz
| image = Krystyna Sienkiewicz (00483).jpg
| caption = Krystyna Sienkiewicz in 2004
| occupation = actress, singer
| birth_name = Krystyna Waleria Sienkiewicz
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1935|2|14}}
| birth_place = Ostrów Mazowiecka, Poland
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2017|2|12|1935|2|14}}
| death_place = Warsaw, Poland
| years_active = 1955–2017
| alma_mater =
| module = {{Infobox musical artist
| embed = yes
| instrument = vocals
| genre = sung poetry
| associated_acts = Piotr Fronczewski
| label = EMI Music Poland
}}
}}
Krystyna Waleria Sienkiewicz (14 February 1935 – 12 February 2017) was a Polish actress and singer.
Biography
While Sienkiewicz's family originally came from Grodno, she was born on 14 February 1935 in Ostrów Mazowiecki. Her parents died during World War II (her father was murdered in Oranienburg concentration camp, her mother died after an illness).{{cite web|url=http://www.polskieradio.pl/7/5111/Artykul/1706894,Krystyna-Sienkiewicz-zyje-tak-aby-sie-tego-nie-wstydzic|title=Żyję tak żeby się tego nie wstydzić|language=pl|date=20 December 2016|accessdate=12 February 2017}} In 1945, she was adopted by her aunt and moved to Szczytno.
In 1957 she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Sienkiewicz debuted as an actress two years earlier, on 1 September 1955 at the Studencki Teatr Satyryków (STS; Student's Theatre of Satirists). A famous Polish movie critic, Krzysztof Teodor Toeplitz described her as a pink phenomenon of STS (różowe zjawisko STS-u).{{cite web|url=http://www.encyklopediateatru.pl/artykuly/3933/rozowe-zjawisko-sts-u|title=Różowe zjawisko STS-u|accessdate=25 February 2017}}
In 1958, Sienkiewicz performed in her first movie, Farewells by Wojciech Has.{{cite web|url=http://www.rmf24.pl/kultura/news-krystyna-sienkiewcz-nie-zyje-aktorka-zmarla-w-wieku-81-lat,nId,2351187|title=Krystyna Sienkiewicz nie żyje|language=pl|date=12 February 2017|accessdate=12 February 2017}} From that moment she appeared in more than 20 movies, including Jutro premiera (1962), Lekarstwo na miłość (1967) and Rzeczpospolita Babska (1969).{{cite web|url=http://www.filmweb.pl/person/Krystyna+Sienkiewicz-46348|title=Krystyna Sienkiewicz profile|accessdate=25 February 2017|language=pl}}
During her theatrical career she was an actress of: Ateneum Theatre, TR Warszawa, Polish Theatre in Poznań, Theatre of Wola, Rampa Theatre, Finestra Theatre and Warsaw's Comedy Theatre.{{cite web|url=http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/wiadomosci/7,114883,21363557,nie-zyje-krystyna-sienkiewicz-aktorka-miala-81-lat.html|title=Nie żyje Krystyna Sienkiewicz|language=pl|date=12 February 2017|accessdate=25 February 2017}}
As a singer, Sienkiewicz mainly sang poems by Agnieszka Osiecka, Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński and Olga Lipińska.{{cite web|url=http://okularnicy.org.pl/agnieszka/wspomnienia/krystyna_sienkiewicz|author=Anna Gołda-Kopijer|title=Wspomnienia: Krystyna Sienkiewicz|accessdate=25 February 2017|language=pl}} In 2007 she was awarded the Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis.{{cite web|url=http://mkidn.gov.pl/pages/strona-glowna/kultura-i-dziedzictwo/odznaczenia/medal-zasluzony-kulturze---gloria-artis.php|title= Polish Ministry of Culture – Medal Zasłużony Kulturze – Gloria Artis. (Enter her name in the Szukaj box near the bottom at the right. Złoty means gold)|language=pl|accessdate=8 March 2017}}
Krystyna Sienkiewicz died in 2017 in Warsaw, two days before her 82nd birthday. She was buried at Powązki Military Cemetery. As Sienkiewicz was not religious, her funeral was secular.{{cite web|url=http://film.interia.pl/wiadomosci/news-krystyna-sienkiewicz-spoczela-na-powazkach-wojskowych,nId,2356491|title=Krystyna Sienkiewicz spoczęła na Wojskowych Powązkach|date=21 February 2017|accessdate=25 February 2017|language=pl}} She is survived by her adopted daughter Julia and nephew Kuba Sienkiewicz.{{cite web|url=http://www.gala.pl/artykul/krystyna-sienkiewicz-nie-zyje-miala-81-lat-jej-zycie-nie-bylo-bajka-170212010409|author=Natalia Hołownia|title=Krystyna Sienkiewicz nie żyje|date=12 February 2017|accessdate=25 February 2017|language=pl|archive-date=26 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170226214253/http://www.gala.pl/artykul/krystyna-sienkiewicz-nie-zyje-miala-81-lat-jej-zycie-nie-bylo-bajka-170212010409|url-status=dead}}
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Category:People from Ostrów Mazowiecka
Category:People from Białystok Voivodeship (1919–1939)
Category:Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw alumni
Category:Polish stage actresses
Category:20th-century Polish women singers