Zbigniew Zamachowski


Zbigniew Zamachowski is a Polish actor.

Life and career

He was born on 17 July 1961 in Brzeziny near Łódź. Zamachowski graduated from the actor's faculty of the National Film School in Łódź. He began his acting career in 1981 and in 1989 had a co-starring role in Part Ten ' of director Krzysztof Kieślowski's film series, Dekalog. Four years later, Kieślowski cast him as the lead character, "Karol Karol", in ', the second of his acclaimed Three Colors trilogy. He is a two-time winner of Polish Film Awards for his roles in Robert Gliński's film Hi, Tereska and Andrzej Jakimowski's film drama Zmróż oczy. His other notable roles are featured in Kazimierz Kutz's film Colonel Kwiatkowski, Jerzy Hoffman's historical film With Fire and Sword and Andrzej Wajda's biopic .
Between 1985 and 1997, he performed at The Studio Theater, and since 1997 he has been an actor at the National Theater in Warsaw.

Filmography