Karolina Gruszka
Biography
Karolina Gruszka is a Polish actress who works in film, television, and theater in Poland and abroad. Born in Warsaw, she made her television debut at age nine and her film debut in 1998 in the comedy Spona, which won her an award at the Ale Kino! International Young Audience Film Festival. Her breakthrough came in 2000 as Masha Mironova in the Russian drama The Captain's Daughter. She graduated from the Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw in 2003 and performed at the National Theatre in Warsaw from 2003 to 2008. Her role in The Lovers of Marona (2005) brought Best Actress at the Gdynia Film Festival, the Zbigniew Cybulski Award, and a Polish Academy Award nomination. She appeared in David Lynch's Inland Empire (2006), All About My Parents (2014), Marie Curie: The Courage of Knowledge (2016), and The American (2023). She is a five-time Polish Film Awards nominee.
46years old
Turns 47 on July 13in 282 days
- Born Warsaw
- Star sign: CancerThe sign runs June 21 to July 22
Movie Career
- Films
- 6
- Career span
- 17 years2006 to 2023
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In 2019 Gruszka appeared in the Icelandic movie Gullregn, also called Goldrain, directed by Ragnar Bragason. She did not know the language before, yet every one of her lines had to be delivered in Icelandic.
Big break
Gruszka's big break came in 2000 when she starred as Masha Mironova in the Russian drama The Captain's Daughter, adapted from Alexander Pushkin's 1836 historical novel.
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David Lynch directed two of these films. Five actors appear in two of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
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