Zbigniew Zamachowski has spent most of a working life as a Polish actor whose name has been turning up in credits for decades. Ask a viewer to place Zbigniew Zamachowski and the answer usually comes back 'The Pianist'. 'Three Colors: Blue' is a second title with real reach. The early stretch of the career is the part least seen today. Neither the cinema nor the television half of the career can be called the side project.
Zbigniew Zamachowski
Actor
65 years (Jul 17, 1961)Brzeziny, Poland
Zbigniew Zamachowski has spent most of a working life as a Polish actor whose name has been turning up in credits for decades. Ask a viewer to place Zbigniew Zamachowski and the answer usually comes back 'The Pianist'. 'Three Colors: Blue' is a second title with real reach. The early stretch of the career is the part least seen today. Neither the cinema nor the television half of the career can be called the side project.
Zbigniew Zamachowski (Polish pronunciation: [ˈzbiɡɲɛv zamaˈxɔfskʲi]; born 17 July 1961) is a Polish actor. 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 Three Colors: White, 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 (2001) and Andrzej Jakimowski's film drama Zmróż oczy (2004). His other notable roles are featured in Kazimierz Kutz's film Colonel Kwiatkowski (1996), Jerzy Hoffman's historical film With Fire and Sword (1999) and Andrzej Wajda's biopic Walesa: Man of Hope (2013).
Between 1985 and 1997, he performed at The Studio Theater, and since 1997 he has been an actor at the National Theater in Warsaw.