Robert Gonera
{{short description|Polish film, stage and television actor}}
{{BLP sources|date=January 2013}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Robert Gonera
| image = Robert Gonera (2018).jpg
| caption = Robert Gonera, 2018
| birth_date = 1969
| birth_place = Poland
| alma_mater = AST, Wrocław faculty
| occupation = Actor, director
| years_active = 1989–present
| agent = Gudejko
| spouse = 1. Jolanta Fraszyńska (divorced)
2. Karolina Wolska (divorced)
}}
Robert Gonera (born 1969{{cite book|last = Kucharski|first = Krzysztof|date = 2010|title = Kino polskie 1990-1999|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ElRIAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Robert+Gonera+,+ur+.+1969%22|publisher = Kino Plus|pages = 138, 213|isbn = 9788393121625}}) is a Polish film, stage and television actor.{{cite web|url=https://www.newsweek.pl/polska/spoleczenstwo/film-dlug-byl-szczytem-mozliwosci-roberta-gonery/6jg460n|title=Ten film wyniósł go na aktorski szczyt. Zaraz potem zakończył jego karierę|work=Newsweek Polska|date=17 January 2015 |accessdate=10 February 2020}} He played leading roles in Krzysztof Krauze's political drama Street Games and the thriller The Debt, for which he received the Polish Academy Award for Best Actor. He became widely known after starring in a record audience television series L for Love aired on TVP2.
Biography
= Early life =
He was born in Syców.{{Citation |title=Robert Gonera |url=https://www.interfilmes.com/person_1128880_Robert.Gonera.html |language=pt-br |access-date=2022-10-11}} He grew up in Twardogóra,{{Citation |title=DIN EN 16603-20-06:2020-11, Raumfahrttechnik_- Aufladung von Raumfahrzeugen; Englische Fassung EN_16603-20-06:2020 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.31030/3193908 |publisher=Beuth Verlag GmbH |doi=10.31030/3193908 |access-date=2022-10-11|url-access=subscription }} where he regularly visited the cinema, which he reactivated with his brothers in 1994.{{Cite web |title=archive.ph |url=https://archive.today/20200611190925/http://dolnoslaskosc.pl/rozmowa-z-robertem-gonera,1446.html |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=archive.ph}} He attended the Juliusz Słowacki High School in Olesnica,{{Cite web |title=archive.ph |url=https://archive.today/20200611192525/http://lo1.olesnica.pl/historia-szkoly/wybitni-absolwenci/ |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=archive.ph}} where he gained his first acting skills in the amateur theater and cabaret Salon Satyryczny Struś. He was the author of a play that won an honorable mention at a cabaret review at the Wrocław Youth House of Culture. He passed his high school diploma at the age of 18, as he went to school a year earlier. In 1991 he graduated from the Wroclaw branch of the PWST in Cracow, where he later taught workshops.{{Cite web |title=archive.ph |url=https://archive.today/20120709083557/http://film.onet.pl/wiadomosci/publikacje/wywiady/dyskretny-prowokator-opatrznosci,1,3808597,wiadomosc.html |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=archive.ph}}
= Career =
In 1990, he made his debut in the role of Motl Kamzoil in the classic musical Fiddler on the Roof by Jerry Bock, directed by Jan Szurmiej on the stage of Wroclaw Operetta, with which he was affiliated from 1991 to 1992. He performed in Wroclaw theaters: the Polish Theater (1992-1999), the Song Theater (2005) and the Helena Modrzejewska Theater in Legnica (2001-2004).
His participation in Krzysztof Krauze's comedy New York, Four o'clock in the Morning (1988) was limited to sitting on a bench at the railway station in Bystrzyca Klodzka.{{Cite web |title=Robert Gonera |url=https://www.csfd.cz/tvurce/11319-robert-gonera/oceneni/ |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=csfd.cz |language=cs-CZ}} His first screen role was Jacek "Hephaestus" Zybig in Radoslaw Piwowarski's psychological drama Marcowe migdały (1989). He then played the character of Mariusz in Teresa Kotlarczyk's The Plant (1990). In Feliks Falk's drama Samowolka (1993), he played the role of Private Robert Kowalski. He appeared in the music video for the song of the band Myslovitz "The length of the sound of loneliness" (1999). For his portrayal of businessman Adam Borecki in Krzysztof Krauze's crime drama Dług (1999), he received the Polish Film Award Eagle. In the TV series M jak miłość (2000-2006), he starred as Jacek Milecki.
Filmography
=Film=
=Television=
- Tatort ep. Eiskalt (1997)
- L for Love (2000–2006)
- Determinator (2007)
- Days of Honor season 4 (2008)
- Polizeiruf 110 ep. 354 (2015)
- Belfer (2016 - )
- Belle Epoque (2017)
- Korona Królów (2018 - )
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0327290}}
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{{Polish Academy Award for Best Actor}}
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Category:Polish male film actors
Category:Polish male television actors
Category:Male actors from Lower Silesian Voivodeship
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