Piotr Adamczyk
Acting • Born 1972-03-21
Biography
Piotr Aleksander Adamczyk (Polish: [ˈpjɔtraˈdamt͡ʂɨk]; born March 21, 1972) is a Polish film, television, voice, and theatre actor. He is known for portraying pianist and composer Frédéric Chopin in the biographical film Chopin: Desire for Love (2002), Pope John Paul II in the TV miniseries Karol: A Man Who Became Pope (2005) and its sequel Karol: The Pope, The Man (2006), Tomas in the Marvel Cinematic Universe Disney+ series Hawkeye (2021), and Sergei Nikulov in the Apple TV+ original science fiction space drama series For All Mankind (2021–2024). From his early childhood, Adamczyk wanted to become an actor. He attended the Machulski youth theatre group in Warsaw. Thanks to an international scholarship, he was able to attend international theatre workshops in the United Kingdom and Germany. He continued his acting education by attending the Theatre Academy in Warsaw. During his second academic year, he won a scholarship from the Soros Foundation, which allowed him to attend the British American Drama Academy for one year, where he performed Hamlet for his diploma. Once he graduated from the Theatre Academy, Adamczyk was hired by the Teatr Współczesny in Warsaw. His career in the film industry, however, grew much more intensively. He played Stawrogin in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Possessed. The breakthrough in his career was his part as Frédéric Chopin in the film Chopin: Desire for Love—and he became a Polish star. The climax of his popularity was reached when he played the title role of another Polish historical figure in a two-part Italian TV movie—Karol: A Man Who Became Pope and Karol: The Pope, The Man. The movie was viewed by several dozen million viewers and made him popular in Italy, Latin America, and many other Catholic countries. Adamczyk also managed to take advantage of his popularity abroad to act at the Sala Uno Theatre in Rome, in Italian. He also appeared in Liliana Cavani’s movie Einstein and in the Portuguese production Second Life. In 2014, Adamczyk, Bartosz Opania, and Paweł Domagała starred in the comedy film Wkręceni. He has been in over 800 radio roles and around 100 theatre, television, and film parts. He is also appreciated for his roles in Polish dubbing. In animated films he voiced, among others, Melman the giraffe in Madagascar, Lightning McQueen in Cars, and Syndrome in The Incredibles. He has received many prestigious awards in Poland. In 2011, he was voted the most popular Polish actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Piotr Adamczyk, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
93 credits
A Woman at Night
Movie • 2021
Dracula
Il cacio con le pere
Movie • 2023
Sergei
Ladies
Movie • 2008
Artur, mąż Gośki
The Career of Nikos Dyzma
Movie • 2002
lektor języka angielskiego
Second Life
Movie • 2009
Nicholas
Karol: A Man Who Became Pope
Movie • 2005
Karol Wojtyla
Tango
Movie • 1999
Artur
Testosteron
Movie • 2007
Kornel
Och, Karol 2
Movie • 2011
Karol Górski
Trick
Movie • 2010
Marek Kowalewski
Holy Business
Movie • 2010
Leszek Rembowski
Chopin: Desire for Love
Movie • 2002
Fryderyk Chopin
All The Saints
Movie • 2002
Ksiądz w Jędrzejowie
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Hawkeye
Movie • 2022
Self - Tomas
Breakfast in Bed
Movie • 2010
Konrad
Egzekutor
Movie • 1999
lekarz
Letters to Santa
Movie • 2011
Szczepan Lisiecki
Hans Kloss: More Than Death at Stake
Movie • 2012
Hermann Bruner
The Partisan
Movie • 2025
Captain Hamann
The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683
Movie • 2012
Leopold I
1939 Battle of Westerplatte
Movie • 2013
Stefan Ludwik Grodecki
Nie ten człowiek
Movie • 2011
baron's butler
Gwiazda Kopernika
Movie • 2009
Mikołaj Kopernik (voice)
Falling Stars
Movie • 2024
Ouami
Il meglio di te
Movie • 2023
Screwed Up
Movie • 2014
Franek Szpak "Franczesko"
Karol: The Pope, The Man
Movie • 2006
John Paul II
Letters to Santa 5
Movie • 2022
Szczepan Lisiecki
Up on the Roof
Movie • 2023
Stephan
Letters to Santa 6
Movie • 2024
Szczepan Lisiecki
Getsemani
Movie • 2011
Alec Beasley
Career Girl
Movie • 2016
Chairman Jimmie
Nie kłam kochanie
Movie • 2008
Marcin Paprocki
At Full Gallop
Movie • 1996
Ksawery
A Report on the Banality of Love
Movie • 2012
Young Martin Heidegger
I'm a Killer
Movie • 2016
Major Aleksander Stępski
303 Squadron
Movie • 2018
Witold Urbanowicz
The Art of Loving: Story of Michalina Wislocka
Movie • 2017
Stach Wisłocki
Prymas. Trzy lata z tysiąca
Movie • 2000
Kozyra's Assistant
Limousine
Movie • 2008
Georges, lawyer
I'm (Endless Like the Space)
Movie • 2017
Mark
Letters to Santa 3
Movie • 2017
Szczepan Lisiecki
Entanglement
Movie • 2011
Antoni Szacki
Bride and Groom
Movie • 2018
Darek
Women of Mafia 2
Movie • 2019
'Mat'
Icarus. The Legend of Mietek Kosz
Movie • 2019
Bogdan Danowicz
Całe szczęście
Movie • 2019
Robert
Mayday
Movie • 2020
Jan Kowalski
Titanium White
Movie • 2022
Dominik
Our God's Brother
Movie • 1997
Hubert
Letters to Santa 2
Movie • 2015
Szczepan Lisiecki
Letters to Santa 4
Movie • 2021
Szczepan Lisiecki
The Body
Movie • 2003
proboszcz
Fisheye
Movie • 2020
Marek
In for a Murder
Movie • 2021
Robert Mazur
Small World
Movie • 2021
Robert Goc
Prawdziwa historia Listów do M.
Movie • 2024
Szczepan Lisiecki
Uncle Truther
Movie • 2025
Karol Malinowski
Max & Me
Movie • 2023
Maximiliano Kolbe (voice)
Seks dla opornych
Movie • 2025
Grzegorz Wolski
Iggy the Eagle
Movie • 2026
Leon (voice)
Wesele
Movie • 2019
Poeta
Wniebowstąpienie
Movie • 2005
Charon
Jan Englert. Spróbuję jeszcze raz pofrunąć
Movie • 2025
Self
The Annuity
Movie • 2001
Rafał
Kowalscy kontra Kowalscy
TV • 2021
Piotr Kowalski
Days of Honor
TV • 2008
Lars Reiner
Recipe for Life
TV • 2011
Andrzej Zawadzki
Hawkeye
TV • 2021
Tomas
Small World
TV • 2021
Robert Goc
For All Mankind
TV • 2019
Sergei Orestovich Nikulov
Simple Case
TV • 2024
Kazik Bednarz
Night Sky
TV • 2022
Cornelius
Karol: The Pope, The Man
TV • 2006
John Paul II
Karol: A Man Who Became Pope
TV • 2005
Karol Wojtyła
Days of Honor - Powstanie
TV • 2014
Lars Reiner
Naznaczony
TV • 2009
Tadeusz Kral
Piąty stadion
TV • 2012
Borys Nowakowski
Sama słodycz
TV • 2014
Fryderyk Rekrut
Trzecia połowa
TV • 2018
Borys Nowakowski
Boża podszewka
TV • 1997
Adam Jurewicz
Zakładnicy
TV
Klara
TV • 2024
Wojciech
Project UFO
TV • 2025
Jan Polgar
Lepsza połowa
TV • 2020
Borys
Glory and Glory
TV • 1998
Józio Royski
Go Ahead, Brother
TV • 2024
Eryk Tomczyk
Langer
TV • 2025
Olgierd 'Paderborn' Paderewski
SNL Polska
TV • 2017
Self
Counterpart
TV • 2017
Gunther
Einstein
TV • 2008
Kurt Kluge
Spellbinder
TV • 1995
Zander
Spellbinder
TV • 1995