Name
Maja Ostaszewska
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1972-09-03 (54 years old)
Place of Birth
Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Maja Ostaszewska (born September 3, 1972) is a Polish actress.
She was born in Kraków, the daughter of Polish musician Jacek Ostaszewski. She started her acting training in her native Kraków and later graduated from PWST, in 1996. She has since acted mostly on Teatr Rozmaitości in Warsaw, working with well-known Polish directors such as Krystian Lupa, Krzysztof Warlikowski and Grzegorz Jarzyna.
In 1993, during her acting training, she played a small role in Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List. Although her actual real film debut was in 1997, with the TV movie Przystań. For this role, she received the Best Actress Award at the Polish Film Festival held in Gdynia in 1998.
Ostaszewska recently played one of the main characters in Academy Award nominated Andrzej Wajda's Katyń.
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- 2007 Katyn as Anna
- 2024 Colors of Evil: Red as Helena Bogucka
- 2015 A Grain of Truth as Weronika Szacka (głos)
- 2011 Entanglement as Prokurator Agata Szacka
- 2023 Green Border as Julia
- 2000 Egoiści as Klientka w agencji reklamowej
- 2013 In the Name of... as Ewa
- 2022 Broad Peak as Ewa Dyakowska-Berbeka
- 2015 Rybka Canero as nadkomisarz Kaja Zaremba
- 2013 Dom na końcu drogi as Marta
- 2015 Body as Anna
- 2023 The In-Laws 2 as Małgorzata Wilk
- 2023 Shielding the Flame as Hanna Krall (voice)
- 2014 Jack Strong as Hania
- 2015 Damaged as Melania Dulska
- 2006 Loneliness in the Net as ginecologist
- 2016 Pitbull: Public Orders as Olka
- 2002 The Pianist as Woman with Child
- 2025 Chopin, a Sonata in Paris as Justyna Krzyżanowska
- 2000 Prymas. Trzy lata z tysiąca as Sister Maria Leonia Graczyk
- 2016 Pitbull: Tough Women as Olka
- 1993 Schindler's List as Frantic Woman
- 2003 Changes as Marta Mycinska
- 2018 7 Emotions as Mama Adasia i Mikiego
- 2000 I'm Looking at You, Mary as Marysia Orzechowska
- 2019 I Am Lying Now as Celia
- 1997 Przystań as Karolina Dobrzyńska
- 2019 (Nie)znajomi as Anna
- 2020 Kill It and Leave This Town as Janek (voice)
- 2020 Nightwalk as Girl's Mother
- 2021 Never Gonna Snow Again as Maria
- 2021 Magnesium as Róża Lewenfisz
- 2005 Solidarność, Solidarność... as Adult Maja
- 2021 The In-Laws as Małgorzata Wilk
- 2025 The In-Laws 3 as Małgorzata Wilk
- 2009 Katyn: 60 Days on the Set
- 2002 Where Eskimos Live
- 2026 The Doll as Baroness Krzeszowska
- 2021 Klangor ( 8 episodes ) as Magda Wejman
- 2008 Days of Honor ( 13 episodes ) as Wanda Ryszkowska
- 2001 Removals ( 10 episodes )
- 2017 Diagnosis ( 52 episodes ) as Anna Nowak
- 2011 Recipe for Life ( 52 episodes ) as Beata Darmięta
- 2016 Second chance ( 39 episodes ) as Lidia Rak
- 2025 Project UFO ( 4 episodes ) as Wera Wierusz
- 2021 The Office PL ( 4 episodes ) as Arleta Mosór
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