Joanna Pacula

Joanna Pacula is an actress and model from Poland whose screen work spans stage, film and television. After graduating from the Aleksander Zelwerowicz State Theatre Academy in 1979, she performed with the Warsaw Dramatic Theatre until 1981 in Shakespeare productions such as Romeo and Juliet, Othello and As You Like It, and she appeared in the films Camouflage and Last Night of Love. Her first prominence came through modeling work for Vogue, and after settling in the United States in 1982 she made her feature debut opposite William Hurt in Gorky Park (1983). That performance brought a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress and praise from Roman Polanski. Screen World included her among twelve promising new actors of 1984. She went on to play a voodoo expert in Marked for Death (1990), Doc Holliday's lover Kate in Tombstone (1993), a Russian scientist in Virus (1999), and roles in Escape from Sobibor (1987) and The Kiss (1988).