Liliana Komorowska

Liliana Komorowska is an actress trained at Warsaw's Zelwerowicz State Theater Academy, graduating with honors in 1979. Her debut came in 1980 as Abigail in a Masterpiece Theater production of The Crucible, earning her the Polish Television Academy's best actor honor. At the Dramatic Theatre in Warsaw she appeared in plays by Racine, Shakespeare, Diderot and Gombrowicz, and for Polish Masterpiece Theater she played Roxanne in Cyrano de Bergerac, Linda Manion in Anatomy of a Murder and a prostitute in Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller's drama, opposite Tadeusz Lomnicki. Her films included Krzysztof Zanussi's The Contract (1980) and Austeria, where she played Jedwocha. A part in the American production War and Love (1985) became a turning point and led her to work in the United States. She played leading roles in daytime serials including Another World, As the World Turns and One Life to Live, and appeared in Her Alibi (1989) and Scanners III: The Takeover (1991).