Jacek Koman


Jacek Koman is a Polish-Australian actor and singer.

Early life

Koman was born in Bielsko-Biała, Poland, to actors Halina Koman and Adam Koman, and came to Australia in 1982 with his brother Tomek. They landed in Perth before heading over to Melbourne, where he began acting again.
Koman attended the National Film School in Łódź, where he studied acting alongside :de:Małgorzata Potocka |Małgorzata Potocka, Andrzej Szczytko and :pl:Piotr Skiba|Piotr Skiba. His first professional stage appearance was as Lysander in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream in Bielsko-Biała in 1978.

Career

In Melbourne, Koman met his partner, Australian actress Catherine McClements, in the late 1980s at the Anthill Theatre. They now have two children together – Clementine Coco and Quincy. The couple have worked together a number of times, including films Redheads and Floodhouse, as well as an episode of Rush in 2009, and theatre productions Cruel and Tender, Macbeth, The Blind Giant is Dancing and Angels in America.
In 2011, he was nominated for an AACTA award for his guest performance in Spirited. In 2012, he appeared as "The Great Hypno" in the Australian television series Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries. In 2013, he returned to the stage after an eight-year absence, in Tom Holloway's translation of Durrenmatt's Dance of Death at the Malthouse Theatre in Melbourne.

Music career

Koman is also the lead singer of VulgarGrad, a Melbourne band who play Russian-style music and who formed in 2004.

Filmography