We are delighted to announce that this year’s The Marshal Of The Kujawy Pomorze Region Film Award will be presented to Karolina Gruszka. One of Poland’s most acclaimed film and theatre actresses, she is also a frequent guest at ToruńCAMERIMAGE. For many years, she has successfully combined work in theatre, film and television, building an impressive body of work that includes dozens of roles.
She first encountered acting as a child and gained her earliest experience in front of the camera before beginning her studies at the Acting Department of the Theatre Academy in Warsaw, from which she graduated in 2003. From 2003 to 2009, she was a member of the company at the National Theatre in Warsaw.
A particularly important chapter in her artistic career was her collaboration with Ivan Vyrypaev, which encompassed eleven stage productions in which she played leading roles. Her theatre work has earned her the TVP Kultura Gwarancje Kultury Award, the Wdechy Award from ‘Gazeta Wyborcza’, the Aleksander Zelwerowicz Award presented by ‘Teatr’ monthly and the Best Actress Award at the Divine Comedy International Theatre Festival in Krakow.
She made her screen debut as a child in the television series Boża podszewka (1997). Since then, she has appeared in more than sixty film and television productions. Her credits include the title role in Marie Curie, as well as roles in The Lovers of Marona, Happiness of the World, Oxygen, Chopin, a Sonata in Paris and her latest film, The Doll. She is also known to younger audiences for films such as Too Old for Fairy Tales and Kaytek the Wizard, while her television credits include Sfora, Oficer, Two Eagles House, The Breslau Murders, Nieobecni and Gra z cieniem.
She won the Best Actress Award at the 30th Polish Film Festival in Gdynia for her performance in Izabella Cywińska’s The Lovers of Marona. She has also received five nominations for the Polish Film Awards, the Eagles, for her performances in The Lovers of Marona, All About My Parents, Marie Curie, Lullaby Killer and Chopin, a Sonata in Paris.
This year’s The Marshal of the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodeship Film Award will be presented during the Opening Gala of the 34th ToruńCAMERIMAGE Film Festival, which will take place in Toruń, in the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodeship, from 7 to 14 November.
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