Alicja Bachleda-Curuś

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Alicja Bachleda-Curuś (pron. Template:IPAc-pl; born 12 May 1983) is a Polish actress and singer who has appeared in films including Trade, Ondine and Pan Tadeusz.

Early life

Bachleda-Curuś was born in Tampico, Mexico. She is the daughter of Lidia and Tadeusz Bachleda-Curuś, a geologist who was working in Mexico at that time. She has a brother, Tadeusz Bachleda-Curuś and half-sister, Urszula Welenc. Her uncle, Adam Bachleda-Curuś, is the former mayor of Zakopane, Poland, the city where she was raised.

While growing up in Poland, Bachleda studied at the Elżbieta Armatys's Theater, Music and Dance Studio with an additional profile with extended learning of Spanish and English. She studied Iberian studies and cultural studies at the Jagiellonian University, but suspended her studies due to professional reasons[1][2] She studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York City, as well as psychology at the University of California where she graduated with a degree in art history.

Acting career

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Alicja Bachleda, Colin Farrell and director Neil Jordan at the Ondine premiere, 2010 Tribeca Film Festival in New York.

At age 15, Bachleda landed a lead role in the 1999 film Pan Tadeusz, directed by Academy Award-winning Polish director Andrzej Wajda.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Four years later, she won a role in Polish soap opera Na dobre i na złe.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Bachleda then began crossing over into mainstream films outside Poland, appearing in the German film Sommersturm, a coming of age story, in 2004. Bachleda-Curuś returned to Mexico to film the 2007 thriller Trade, starring Kevin Kline, an unflinching look at the world of human trafficking. Bachleda then returned to Europe to play a Jewish girl in the historical drama Template:Ill, which took place during World War II in Transylvania, Romania. Her next film was 2009's Ondine, a film about an Irish fisherman who thinks he catches a selkie, a mythological seal/human.

In 2012 Bachleda-Curuś starred as Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Poland in September Eleven 1683, and appeared in a lead role in The Girl Is in Trouble.

Personal life

On 7 October 2009 in Los Angeles, Bachleda-Curuś gave birth to her son Henry with Irish actor Colin Farrell.[3] He was baptized on 29 December 2009 in the Roman Catholic Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Kraków. It was reported on 15 October 2010 that Farrell and Bachleda-Curuś had separated.

Filmography

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Alicja Bachleda at the Gdynia Film Festival in 2010.

Film

Year Title Role Director Notes
1996 Vis a vis[4] Borys Lankosz Short film
1999 Pan Tadeusz Zosia Horeszkówna Andrzej Wajda
1999 The Gateway of Europe Zosia Jerzy Wójcik
2000 Syzyfowe prace Anna "Biruta" Stogowska Paweł Komorowski
2001 Template:Interlanguage link Wanda Michael Gutmann
2004 Summer Storm Anke Marco Kreuzpaintner
2004 Template:Ill Stella Florian Baxmeyer Television film
2006 Comme des voleurs (à l'est)[5] Anke Lionel Baier Romantic comedy film
2007 Trade Veronica Marco Kreuzpaintner
2007 Template:Ill Gisela Glückselig Radu Gabrea
2009 Ondine Ondine Neil Jordan
2010 Friendship! Zoey Markus Goller
2012 The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683 Eleonora Habsburżanka Markus Goller
2015 The Girl Is in Trouble Signe Julius Onah
2015 Breathe[6] Ania Kardel Paul Kowalski Short film
2015 Edge Pilar Shane Black Television film
2016 7 rzeczy, których nie wiecie o facetach[7] Basia Kinga Lewińska Comedy film
2016 The American Side Nikki Meeker Jenna Ricker
2016 Polaris Baran Soudabeh Moradian
2016 Pitbull: Tough Women[8] Małgorzata "Drabina" Bojke Patryk Vega Crime and drama film

Television series

Year Title Role Notes
2002 Lokatorzy[9] Gabrysia Comedy film
2002–2004 Na dobre i na złe[10] Anna Bochenek Romantic drama film
2005 Sperling[11] Alina Serkovic Crime film

Video games

Year Title Role Notes
2014 Wolfenstein: The New Order Anya Oliwa
2017 Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus Anya Oliwa
2019 Wolfenstein: Youngblood Anya Oliwa

Discography

Albums

  • Klimat (2001)

Singles

  • "Dotknąć nieba" (with Piotr Cugowski (son of Krzysztof Cugowski)) (2007)
  • "Klimat" (2001)
  • "Ich verlier mich gern in Dir" (from the film Heart Over Head) (2001)
  • "Marzyć chcę" (1999)

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