Name
Zbigniew Zamachowski
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1961-07-17 (65 years old)
Place of Birth
Brzeziny, Poland
Biography
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.
Known For
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The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occ...
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Part-time model Valentine unexpectedly befriends a retired judge after she runs over his d...
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Polish immigrant Karol Karol finds himself out of a marriage, a job and a country when his...
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The wife of a famous composer survives a car accident that kills her husband and daughter....
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Military doctor Kwiatkowski, serving in a barracks hospital on the Western Territories, is...
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When Peter Bowman, an American engineer working in a South American country, is captured b...
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Tadek, a Polish detective, becomes suspicious of a controversial author when the incidents...
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Based on the true story of Jan Nowak-Jezioranski, who served as a courier between the comm...
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A true story of Jurek, an eight-year-old boy, who escapes from the Warsaw ghetto, then man...
- 1993 Three Colors: Blue as Karol Karol
- 1994 Three Colors: Red as Karol Karol
- 1994 Three Colors: White as Karol Karol
- 2003 Distant Lights as Antoni
- 2020 Triple Trouble as Rafalski
- 1998 23 as Sergej
- 1999 With Fire and Sword as Michał Wołodyjowski
- 2005 Surfers’ Time as Klama
- 2005 Devil
- 2009 Operation Dunaj as Cpt. Czesław Grążel
- 2020 Truth Makes Free as Adam Grosicki
- 2009 Popieluszko: Freedom Is Within Us as Ireneusz
- 2021 Talking Heads 2021 as Self
- 2022 8 Things as Ryszard 'Ricky' Poprawa
- 1998 Demons of War as 'Houdini' Moraczewski
- 2010 Projekt dziecko, czyli ojciec potrzebny od zaraz as Piotr
- 2006 Dublerzy as Stanisław Góraj
- 2010 Blind Date as TV Cameraman
- 2003 Squint Your Eyes as Jasiek
- 2018 Pitbull. Last Dog as "Gawełek"
- 2003 Let's Make a Grandson as Gustaw Mytnik
- 1997 Happy New York as Ignacy "Potejto"
- 2001 Weiser as Kołota, kierownik szkoły
- 1991 30 Door Key as parobek
- 2011 Father, Son & Holy Cow as Bogdan
- 2003 White Soup as Matuszek
- 1992 Kanalia as Wert (voice) (uncredited)
- 1998 Darmozjad polski as Swede
- 2012 Aftermath as Sierżant Włodzimierz Nowak
- 2001 Hi, Tereska as Edek
- 1991 Seychelles as Stefek
- 1989 Art of Loving as Doctor Żebro
- 1989 Decalogue X as Artur Janicki
- 1993 Taranthriller
- 1994 Reverted as Tomasz Siwek
- 2000 Wiech moja miłość
- 2001 The Station as Dymecki
- 2024 Our Folks: The Beginning as Kacper Pawlak
- 2006 Came the Uhlans as Marian
- 1997 Pułapka as Robert "Bobek" Burski, menager Maćka
- 1996 Colonel Kwiatkowski as sierżant Dudek
- 2007 Hope as Sopel
- 2014 Killing Love as Jan Pokojski
- 2001 The Hexer as Jaskier
- 2024 Treasure as Stefan
- 2014 Warsaw Station as Dariusz
- 1988 Kill Me, Cop as Seweryn
- 2015 Persona Non Grata as Ganor
- 2022 Miłość na pierwszą stronę as Doctor
- 2023 If I Were You as Neighbour
- 2014 Gabriel as Father
- 2008 Luxury as Popers
- 2022 A Night at the Kindergarten as Tadeusz
- 2016 Dark Crimes as Lukasz
- 2010 Esterhazy as ojciec polskiej rodziny (głos)
- 1990 Bal na dworcu w Koluszkach as Andrzej Roszak
- 2016 7 Things You Don't Know About Men as Ryszard 'Ricky' Poprawa
- 2002 The Pianist as Customer with Coins
- 2014 Gods as Stanisław Pasyk
- 2013 Wałesa: Man of Hope as Nawiślak
- 2005 Destined for Blues as Henio
- 2019 1800 Grams as Vice-President
- 1988 The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober as Mathias
- 1993 Yes, Yes as Marek
- 2006 Dublerzy as Stanislaw Goraj
- 1990 Escape from the Liberty Cinema as Censor's Assistant
- 2000 Prymas. Trzy lata z tysiąca as Ksiądz Stanisław Skorodecki
- 1990 Korczak as Ichak Szulc
- 2016 Kolekcja sukienek as Sokrates
- 2016 No Panic with a Hint of Hysteria as Gunder
- 2018 Taxing Love as Wacław Matysiak
- 1988 The Possessed as Liamchine
- 2018 Be Prepared as Inspektor
- 1992 Sauna as Jussi
- 2000 Cabin Fever as Stanislaw
- 2014 Run Boy Run as Hersch Fridman
- 2019 The Resistance Fighter as Generał Antoni Chruściel - Monter
- 2019 Politics
- 1987 The Ring and the Rose as książę Bulbo
- 2003 The Birch-Tree Meadow as Gutek
- 2019 Half a Century of Poetry Later as Jaskier
- 2020 Bad Boy as Bogdański
- 1997 Love Me and Do Whatever You Want as Lech Ryszka
- 2000 Proof of Life as Terry's Driver
- 1997 The Sundial Clock as (voice)
- 2020 Sweat as Fryderyk
- 2014 Jack Strong as Gendera
- 1990 Zad wielkiego wieloryba as Wiciu
- 1981 The Big Picnic as Rysiek
- 1987 Ludożerca as King
- 1988 Boczny tor as Marek
- 1989 Dotknięci as Piotr
- 1984 Domokrążca
- 1987 Escape as Boy
- 2003 The Body as Dizel
- 2008 The Offsiders as Dziennikarz
- 2021 Da kommt noch was as Ryszard
- 2009 Within the Whirlwind
- 2019 Jaś i Małgosia - rodzeństwo, które przeżyło as Narrator
- 1997 Odwiedź mnie we śnie as Janusz
- 2025 Operation Pope as Commander in Gurówka
- 2007 Fundacja Kultura
- 1995 Emigranci
- 2025 Jan Englert. Spróbuję jeszcze raz pofrunąć as Self
- 2024 Teatropolis. Sztuka aktorska as Self
- 2025 Pasikowski & Linda - W Czerwonym Kręgu as Self
- 2026 Podróż sentymentalna
- 2021 Sexify ( 3 episodes ) as Dziekan
- 2015 The Pact ( 5 episodes ) as Roman Hanus
- 2001 With Fire and Sword ( 4 episodes ) as Jerzy Michał Wołodyjowski
- 2019 Echo serca ( 1 episode ) as priest Paweł
- 2003 Inferno Below ( 2 episodes )
- 2019 Politics ( 4 episodes ) as Ojciec Dyrektor
- 2022 The Green Glove Gang ( 4 episodes ) as Commander Mirek (voice)
- 2022 The Green Glove Gang ( 1 episode ) as Commander Mirek
- 2021 Układ ( 10 episodes ) as Stasiak
- 2026 Lead Children ( 6 episodes ) as Zdzisław Grudzień
- 1990 Mistrz i Małgorzata ( 4 episodes ) as Behemot
- 1989 Dekalog ( 1 episode ) as Artur
- 2002 The Witcher ( 7 episodes ) as Jaskier
