Joanna Kulig
Acting • Born 1982-06-24
Biography
Joanna Kulig (born June 24, 1982) is a Polish actress and singer. Noted for performing in different languages, she has worked in film, television and radio as well as on stage. She is the recipient of a European Film Award and two Polish Film Awards, and her work has been recognised at various film festivals. In 2018, Polish magazine Wprost included her among the 50 most influential Poles for her contributions to the cinema of Poland. After an unsuccessful attempt at a career as a jazz singer, Kulig enrolled at the AST National Academy of Theatre Arts in Kraków, graduating in 2007. She began performing on stage while still in drama school, debuting in the play A Midsummer Night's Dream. Her first starring film role in the 2007 drama Wednesday, Thursday Morning won her the award for Best Debut at the Gdynia Film Festival. She received further acclaim for her performance in the 2011 film Elles, which earned her Best Supporting Actress at the Polish Film Awards and Gdynia Film Festival. Kulig was born on 24 June 1982 in Krynica, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland. Her mother worked as a cook at a local kindergarten and her father was a folk poet. She was raised in a musical family along with four siblings—two older brothers and two younger sisters—in Muszynka. One of her sisters, Justyna Schneider, is also an actress and adopted their great-grandmother's surname to avoid confusion as their first names are similar
Filmography
50 credits
Janosik
Movie • 2009
Girl
Talking Heads 2021
Movie • 2021
Self
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
Movie • 2013
Red Haired Witch
She Came to Me
Movie • 2023
Magdalena Szyskowski
Los numeros
Movie • 2011
Sylwia, siostra Ani
The Woman in the Fifth
Movie • 2011
Ania
Dance Marathon
Movie • 2011
Agnieszka
Elles
Movie • 2011
Alicja
Everyone Knows Better
Movie • 2022
Ania
Lasting
Movie • 2013
Marta, koleżanka Kariny
Woman of...
Movie • 2024
Iza
Million Dollars
Movie • 2011
Zuzanna
Wednesday, Thursday Morning
Movie • 2008
Teresa
Ida
Movie • 2013
Singer
Sophie Seeks 7
Movie • 2014
Patrycja
Way Back Home
Movie • 2013
Yalka
Disco Polo
Movie • 2015
Anka "Gensonina"
Knox Goes Away
Movie • 2024
Annie
The Innocents
Movie • 2016
Nun Irena
Pitbull: Tough Women
Movie • 2016
'Zuza'
Cold War
Movie • 2018
Zuzanna 'Zula' Lichoń
Clergy
Movie • 2018
Hanka Tomala
7 Emotions
Movie • 2018
Mama Gosi
Remembrance
Movie • 2011
Magdalena Limonowska
Love Is Everything
Movie • 2018
Magda Rodzińska
I Am Lying Now
Movie • 2019
Agentka
Safe Inside
Movie • 2019
Sylvia
Play
Movie • 2018
Mother
Kompromat
Movie • 2022
Svetlana
Warsaw by Night
Movie • 2015
Marek's Ex-Lover (segment "Iga")
Island
Movie • 2025
Joanna
Wild Wild East
Movie
1949
Movie
Ekipa
TV • 2007
Magdalena Nowasz
Teraz albo nigdy!
TV • 2008
Zyta
Days of Honor
TV • 2008
Mucha
Spies of Warsaw
TV • 2013
Szpilki na Giewoncie
TV • 2010
Wika Bura
The Spider's Web
TV • 2021
Kornelia Titko
Ekipa
TV • 2007
Magdalena Nowasz, córka Henryka
On the Edge
TV • 2013
Sylwia Zawada, żona Edwarda
O mnie się nie martw
TV • 2014
Iga Małecka
Trzeci oficer
TV • 2008
Halina
The Crime
TV • 2014
Posterunkowa Monika Krajewska
Masters of the Air
TV • 2024
Paulina
The Eddy
TV • 2020
Maja
The Trap
TV • 2018
Justyna Mateja
Hanna
TV • 2019
Johanna
Lead Children
TV • 2026
Jolanta Wadowska-Król
The Office PL
TV • 2021
Michalina Biegun