Maja Komorowska

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AKA: Maja Komorowska-Tyszkiewicz
Nationality: Polish
Birthdate: 12/23/1937
Birthplace: Warsaw, Poland

biography

A talented and highly intense dramatic actor, Komorowska trained with experimental theater director and theorist Jerzy Grotowski, who clearly played a role in shaping her highly physical, emotive acting style. After gaining experience onstage, she began to act in films in the early 1970s, with over a dozen very occasional but regular appearances to her credit by the 90s. With her wide-eyed and mournful, pensive expression, Komorowska has typically played somewhat eccentric aunts, mothers or "black sheep" daughters, women suffering, willingly or not, because of wartime conditions, longstanding Continued

Credits

Captain's Mother
Rachela
Katharina
Anna Schubert
Irena--The Aunt
Actor
Anna
Pilgrim/Wizard
Aunt Idalia

milestones

Year
Milestone
1971 
First acted in the cinema and first worked with filmmaker Krzysztof Zanussi on the films, "Zycie rodzinne/Family Life" and "Za sciana/Behind the Wall"
1979 
First non-Polish feature credit, the West German production, "Wege in der Nacht/Night Paths"
1984 
Acted in first film co-produced by US interests: "Rok Spokonjnego Slonca/The Year of the Quiet Sun", a co-production with Poland
1996 
Returned to feature films after a prominent absence with a leading role in Zanussi's "Cwal/At Full Gallop"

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