Joanna Kulig
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Joanna Kulig (born 24 June 1982) is a Polish actress and singer. In 2018, she received the Best Actress Award at the 31st European Film Awards for her performance in Cold War. She is also a two-time Polish Film Award recipient for Best Supporting Actress (Elles) and Best Actress (Cold War).
Kulig was born on 24 June 1982 in Krynica, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland.[1] Her mother worked as a cook at a local kindergarten and her father was a folk poet.[2] She was raised with four siblings in Muszynka.[3] Her younger sister, Justyna Schneider, is also an actress and adopted their great-grandmother’s surname to avoid confusion as their first names are similar.[4] While still living in Krynica, Kulig graduated from the Frédéric Chopin First Degree State Music School where she studied piano.[5] At 18, she moved to Kraków, and enrolled at the Mieczysław Karłowicz State Music School Complex, from which she graduated in singing.[5][6] In the meantime, she also completed the Kraków Vocational Technical High School for Hotel Administration.[7] In 2007, Kulig earned an acting degree with a specialisation in singing from the AST National Academy of Theatre Arts in Kraków.[1] She was the first in her family to graduate from a university.[2]
In 1998, Kulig won an episode of the Polish television talent show Szansa na sukces by performing Grzegorz Turnau’s song “Między ciszą a ciszą”. She took part in the show’s annual final, and came third.[1] Turnau later invited her to sing with him on his 2002 album Nawet.[1] Kulig also participated in season two of the Polish television talent show Idol in 2002. She was eliminated in the semi-finals.[1] Kulig made her stage debut in 2006 as Hermia in the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Helena Modrzejewska National Stary Theater in Kraków.[1] She made her film debut in 2008 in Grzegorz Pacek’s film Wednesday, Thursday Morning, which earned her the Gdynia Film Festival award for Best Debut.[1] In 2011, she starred alongside Ethan Hawke and Kristin Scott Thomas in the drama The Woman in the Fifth directed by Paweł Pawlikowski.[1] She played Alicja opposite Juliette Binoche in Małgorzata Szumowska’s 2012 film Elles, which earned her the Polish Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and another recognition at the Gdynia Film Festival for Best Supporting Actress.[1][8] In 2013, she appeared in Jacek Borcuch’s drama Lasting, and in Pawlikowski’s Academy Award-winning drama Ida.[9] The former earned Kulig her second Polish Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.[10] She also played Sister Irena in Anne Fontaine’s 2016 critically acclaimed drama The Innocents.[11] Kulig achieved further success with her starring role in Pawlikowski’s 2018 historical drama film Cold War, in which she plays Zula, a woman in post-war Poland who joins a folk music touring group.[12] Mark Kermode of The Observer wrote that she “delivers a star-making performance of astonishing range and depth”,[13] and Mick LaSalle of San Francisco Chronicle stated that “she takes the role of a lifetime between her teeth, chomps on it, pounds it into the ground and never lets go for a second.”[14] Kulig received the Best Actress Award at the 31st European Film Awards,[15] and the Polish Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance.[16] That same year, she played local priest’s girlfriend with whom she gets pregnant in Wojciech Smarzowski’s controversial film Clergy.[17] In 2019, Polish magazine Wprost ranked her fourth on its list of the 50 most influential Polish women.[18] Kulig starred as jazz singer Maja in Damien Chazelle’s 2020 Netflix musical drama series The Eddy.[19] She is next committed to star in Rebecca Miller’s romantic comedy She Came to Me alongside Anne Hathaway, Tahar Rahim, Marisa Tomei and Matthew Broderick.[20] In 2009, Kulig married film director and screenwriter Maciej Bochniak.[21] She gave birth to their son in February 2019.[22]
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Wednesday, Thursday Morning | Teresa | |
| 2009 | Janosik: A True Story | Girl | Polish dub, choir |
| 2009 | I Love You So Much | Ewelina | Short film |
| 2011 | Los numeros | Sylwia | |
| 2011 | Milion dolarów | Zuzanna | |
| 2011 | Dance Marathon | Agnieszka | |
| 2011 | The Woman in the Fifth | Ania | |
| 2011 | Remembrance | Magdalena Limanowska | |
| 2012 | Elles | Alicja | |
| 2012 | A Turtle’s Tale 2: Sammy’s Escape from Paradise | Konsuela | Polish dub |
| 2013 | Lasting | Marta | |
| 2013 | Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters | Red-Haired Witch | |
| 2013 | Zambezia | Neville’s wife | Polish dub |
| 2013 | Ida | Singer | |
| 2013 | Khumba | Fifi | Polish dub |
| 2013 | Way Back Home | Yalka | |
| 2014 | Facet (nie)potrzebny od zaraz | Patrycja | |
| 2015 | Warsaw by Night | Marek’s ex-lover | Segment: Iga |
| 2015 | Disco Polo | Anka “Gensonina” | |
| 2016 | The Innocents | Sister Irena | |
| 2016 | Pitbull: Tough Women | Zuza | |
| 2017 | Cargo | Dancer | Short film |
| 2018 | Cold War | Zula Lichoń | |
| 2018 | Clergy | Hanka Tomala | |
| 2018 | 7 Emotions | Gosia’s mother | |
| 2018 | Love Is Everything | Magda Rodzińska | |
| 2018 | Play | Mother | Short film |
| 2019 | I Am Lying Now | Agent | |
| 2019 | Safe Inside | Sylvie | |
| TBA | Kompromat | TBA | Post-production |
| TBA | She Came to Me | TBA | Pre-production |
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