Joanna Szczepkowska
Birthday: Born in 1953-05-01 in Warsaw, Poland
Deathday: Alive
Joanna Szczepkowska is a Polish actress and writer. In 1997, she published a collection of poems, Miasta do wynajęcia. In 2010, she was elected President of the Union of Polish Stage Artists (Związek Artystów Scen Polskich).
TV Credits
Dekalog
Character: żona Janusza
Originally made for Polish television, “The Decalogue” focuses on the residents of a housing complex in late-Communist Poland, whose lives become subtly intertwined as they face emotional dilemmas that are at once deeply personal and universally human. Its ten hour-long films, drawing from the Ten Commandments for thematic inspiration and an overarching structure, grapple deftly with complex moral and existential questions concerning life, death, love, hate, truth, and the passage of time....
Panny i wdowy
Character: Zuzanna, córka Eweliny
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Dom
Character: Lidka Jasińska
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Pitbull
Character: Anna Gromska "doktor Irena"
The dark world of crime: murders, racketeering, drugs, kidnappings. There are no rules here. Working in this world makes cops cynical and ruthless. There is a fine line between them and criminals - will any of them cross it? The main characters are officers from the Department for Counteracting Criminal Terror and Homicides. The action of the series is an extension of the threads that appear in the feature film. It presents in a realistic way the brutal and dark world of crime that officer...
Sława i chwała
Character: Ewelina Royska
Adaptation of the once very loud, today somewhat forgotten book of Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz . "Fame and Glory" is the most extensive novel by the author of "Brzezina". Written with epic panache, it outlines the history of the Polish intelligentsia from "the first days of July 1914" to the fall of 1947. It is also an epitaph for the spiritual face of Polish culture, and a little bit European, shaped in the nineteenth century....
Movie Credits
Popieluszko: Freedom Is Within Us
Character: Roma Parandowska-Szczepkowska
Story of life of Father Jerzy Popieluszko, the priest called "The Solidarity Chaplain", murdered by communist secret police....
Talking Heads 2021
Character: Self
The film was inspired by one of the most important documentaries shot by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Talking Heads (1980). The director asked his interlocutors seemingly simple questions, such as “Who are you?” and “What do you want?”....
Ostatnie takie trio
Character: Panna Młoda
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The Fog
Character: Anka
Post-war movie...
Bezkresne łąki
Character: Agnieszka
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Con Amore
Character: Zosia
Andrzej and Grzegorz are students of Warsaw Conservatory and preparing for the International Piano Competition. Eva - a beautiful Grzegorz's girlfriend is seriously ill, the doctors suspect she has brain cancer. Even for the sake of health and life of his beloved Grzegorz disagrees to miss even a single day of preparation for the contest. Andrzej has a girlfriend Zosia (the daughter of a professor of music), but the young pianist falls in love with Grzegorz's girlfriend and takes care of the si...
Cudzoziemka
Character: Marta, córka Róży i Adama
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Decalogue III
Character: Janusz's Wife
It’s Christmas Eve, and Ewa has plotted to pass the hours until morning with her former lover Janusz, a family man, by making him believe her husband has gone missing. During this night of recklessness and lies, the pair grapple with choices made when their affair was discovered three years ago, and with the value of their present lives....
Sons and Comrades
Character: Janka
A Pole who spent time in an internment camp during the war on the Swiss-German border, visits the site many years later and recalls these days. He meets with other Poles confined in the same camp, including several women, in whose he had romantic interests....
Demakijaż
Character: Mother of 'Muza' (segment "Non-stop kolor")
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Weekend Stories: A Woman's Business
Character: Zofia
A woman whose passport was denied under the previous Communist regime by a vindictive party secretary is given a chance to confront the woman and take revenge....
Scarborn
Character: Helena Duchnowska
Spring of 1794, Poland is in a state of unrest. General Tadeusz ‘Kos’ Kościuszko returns to the country, planning to ignite an uprising against the Russians by mobilising Polish gentry and peasants. He is accompanied by his faithful friend and former slave, Domingo. Kościuszko is being tracked down by a merciless Russian cavalry captain, Dunin, who wants to do whatever it takes to capture the general before he starts a national revolt....
Alchemik
Character: Teresa Seton
An alchemist, Sendivius, comes to court, and transmutes base metal into gold....
Miracle Seller
Character: Dr. Jaworska
A recovering alcoholic on a pilgrimage meets two young refugees who are trying to find their father. Their struggles during the trip from Poland to France will forever change their lives....
Chronicle of Amorous Accidents
Character: Cecylia
Set in the summer months preceding the September 1939 outbreak of World War II in Polish part of Lithuania. A young highschool lad, Witek, is hoping to pass the entrance exams to the university. His love interest is Alina, his high-school colleague....
Volta
Character: Elżbieta Dąbrowska
A woman stumbles upon a valuable artifact, the crown that belonged to Casimir the Great....
Double Trouble
Character: Ciotka Julki
A young girl, her new friend and his dog try to find a long-lost Picasso painting in an abandoned house before a gang of burglars seize it....
Two Moons
Character: Flora
Panoramic view of a resort town in the summer of 1930. In seventeen episodes we get a glimpse at the microcosm of its colourful inhabitants and visitors, Poles and Jews, the high society and the desperately poor....
Panny i wdowy
Character: Zuzanna Chmurka
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Horror in Happy Swamp
Character: Agnieszka, córka Róży
A grotesque story, based on Michal Choromanski's novel, about a polluted area where gas leaking from a swamp causes noses to drop off....
The Mother of the Kings
Character: Marta Stecka / Stecka-Król
Made in 1982, shelved for five years. Story opens with Lucja Krol's husband under the tram. She gives birth to her fourth son on the floor of their new apartment. Neighbor Wiktor, a communist intellectual, befriends the poverty-stricken family but is soon arrested and sent to jail. During the war Lucja narrowly escapes a Nazi roundup at the black market. Her sons hold ardent Communist meetings in their apartment, with her blessing. Lucja works hard, but without complaint. After the war, Klemens ...
Heavy Mental
Character: mother
An unemployed actor, suffering from a mental block, is offered to play a tragicomic part in his own life. In return for a flat, he is meant to pick up a girl and then “transfer” her to his employer....
Klakier
Character: Pola
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Triple Trouble
Character: Ciocia Julki
When a pearl in the collectionof the National Museum of Poznań, Claude Monet's "Beach in Pourville", disappears and Aunt Julki is falsely accused of the theft, two children must find the picture and identify the real thief....