Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak

Born 1951 in Gdańsk. Characteristic romantic lead, in the cinema – Magda in To Kill This Love (1972) and Basia Białasówna in Morgenstern’s Polskie drogi (1976), Anna in Zbigniew Kamiński’s Madame Bovary, That’s Me and in Andrzej Kostenko’s Face to Face (both in 1977), Mgiełka in Piwowarski’s John Heart (1981), Eva – awarded in Cannes – in Károly Makk’s Another Way (1982), Ada in Kutz’s The Brothers Will Come Soon (1985), the Mother in Maciej Dejczer’s 300 Miles to Heaven (1989), Barbara Makowska in Mirosław Dembińskis’s The Call (1996) and Joanna in Michał Rosa’s Scratch (2008). On stage, she played leading roles in plays directed by e.g. Dejmek, Jarocki, Prus, Cieślak, Warlikowski, Libera, Lupa, Glińska at the Dramatical Theatre; by Dejmek at the Polish Theatre, by Hanuszkiewicz at the National Theatre, by Szajna at the Studio Theatre, by Jarzyna at the Rozmaitości Theatre, by Cywińska at the Ateneum Theatre.