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PennBoyThreads: 157
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Joined: Dec 7, 08  Pictures: 2 ♂ 		 Nov 4, 10, 05:04    #1
For me it has to be Daniel Olbrychski, Colonel Wolodyjowski, Potop (The Deluge), Ziemia Obiecana, With Fire and Sword, Pan Tadeusz: The Last Foray in Lithuania, SALT...
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0646037/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Olbrychski
TorqThreads: 65
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Olbrychski is certainly one of the greatest (alongside Wacław Kowalski, Fronczewski, Gajos,
Pieczka, Hańcza and other actors of similar, very high class), but my personal favourite and,
in my opinion, the best Polish actor ever, totally in a league of his own, was Roman
Wilhelmi (Nikodem Dyzma in Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy, Stanisław Anioł in Alternatywy 4,
Robert Fornalski in Zaklęte rewiry.)

http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Wilhelmi

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0928948/

Zi za zu zi zu za...

Wilhelmi

za za zu zi za zi...

Wilhelmi 2

Który z was sukinsyny to zrobił? Który sukinsyn rżnie mnie na kasie?...



Pani Kolińska, pani mnie nie robi koło pióra! Pani mnie tu nie urządza histerii,
kiedy się ważą losy całego bloku!

Ursynów

NO!

NO!
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Joined: Sep 23, 08 ♂ 		Edited by: 1jola  Nov 4, 10, 07:49    #3
Krystyna Janda. Unforgettable in Przesłuchanie and score of other roles.

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Joined: Oct 25, 10 ♂ 		 Nov 4, 10, 08:34    #4
Daniel Olbrychski wins hands down!
If the man was born in America he would be a god.
Absolutely Amazing.
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Joined: May 20, 10 ♂ 		 Nov 4, 10, 08:52    #5
PennBoy:
Daniel Olbrychski


I hate him. He overacts.


Zbigniew Zapasiewicz was a ingenious actor.
Dorota7511Threads: 4
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Joined: Aug 19, 10 ♀ 		 Nov 4, 10, 09:52    #6
I agree with PennBoy, but also the truth is that to appreciate his talent people must grow.
I'm very happy that in Hollywood they give him chance to play in Salt. Maybe it's not a big figure but he found him self very well with american stars. Good job Daniel!
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Joined: Oct 25, 10 ♂ 		 Nov 4, 10, 10:58    #7
Salt was slightly insulting i thought, but, he did kick ass!
Too many years too late.
What a shame! he gets to play a Russian in an American movie. yay!.
Sigh.
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zetigrek:
I hate him. He overacts.

I don't think it's overacting, he gets all into his character with body and soul, emotional, he makes it's all seam believable, real.
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PennBoy:
zetigrek:
I hate him. He overacts.
I don't think it's overacting

he's great with monologs...
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Joined: Sep 23, 08 ♂ 		 Nov 4, 10, 17:11    #10
Dorota7511:
I'm very happy that in Hollywood they give him chance to play in Salt.

Why are you happy? Hollywood is mostly known for trashy productions. It has hardly anything to do with art. Was there a chase and a shootout in Salt? I haven't seen it.
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1jola:
Was there a chase and a shootout in Salt? I haven't seen it.

it's actually not that bad of a movie... i enjoyed it... lots of killing...
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Joined: Aug 26, 10 ♂ 		 Nov 4, 10, 17:30    #12
Related, Harvey Kietel is fairly Polish - and he is (or at least was) outstanding.

But that probably doesn't count...
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Teffle:
Related, Harvey Kietel is fairly Polish - and he is (or at least was) outstanding.


Actually he is jewish polish. There are many Hollywood actors whose grandparents/great grandparents were polish Jews: Gwyneth Paltrow, Scarlet Johannson, Adrien Bordy, Natalie Portman, Jane Seymore, to name a few...

Lee Lee Sobieski is somewhat Polish... and she is from THAT Sobieski family. Also Juliette Binoche mother side grandparents were Polish (Julia Helena Młynarczyk - a Częstochowian actress and Andrzej Stalens also an actor).
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zetigrek:
Adrien Bordy


With a name like Brody, there is Irish in there somewhere too by the way : )
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Teffle:
With a name like Brody, there is Irish in there somewhere too by the way : )


Maybe its from "broda" (polish beard)

Brody's father is of Polish-Jewish descent

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrien_Brody
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Joined: Aug 26, 10 ♂ 		 Nov 4, 10, 18:26    #16
Ah maybe. Just coincidence then - Brody is also a common Irish surname.
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Teffle:
Ah maybe. Just coincidence then - Brody is also a common Irish surname.


Actually I've just found out that the number of people with this surname in Poland is... 1!!!
http://www.moikrewni.pl/mapa/kompletny/brody.html

I think that his family changed the surname from Broda to Brody to sound more American ;)
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zetigrek:
Lee Lee Sobieski is somewhat Polish... and she is from THAT Sobieski family.

I doubt she is from THAT Sobieski, but...

Sobieski grew up in a "pan-religious" family; she has said that she is "proud of [her] Jewish roots".

I know that King Sobieski was not Jewish, and she would have reason to be proud of such lineage if it were true. Being proud of being Jewish in Hollywood makes sense though.
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zetigrek:
Adrien Bordy

loved him in Summer of Sam as a punk rocker, he does descend from Polish Jews
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1jola:
I doubt she is from THAT Sobieski, but...


she is from the line of king's brother... something like that.


Jak sama twierdzi, przez swego ojca Jean Sobieskiego, jest spokrewniona z królem Polski Janem III Sobieskim, który był jej "praprapraprawujkiem"[1] i według niej "ostatnim królem Polski".

haha, ostatnim? Oj panna Sobieski się trochę rozmarzyła...

http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leelee_Sobieski
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Joined: Sep 23, 08 ♂ 		 Nov 4, 10, 20:06    #21
She has that regal look though, and who cares about European history in Hollywood anyway.

Danuta Stenka is one of my favorites. A class act.

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Wintervater (2011) with Daniel Olbrychski looks promising, A young Polish girl searches for her Russian sailor father. A evenly split, Polish, Russian, German cast. http://www.demotix.com/news/402587/daniel-olbrychski-winter-vater-film
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1jola:
Danuta Stenka


Mmmmm she looks nice. Nice and vampish looking! : )
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1jola:
Danuta Stenka is one of my favorites. A class act.

Yep, not many of those left.
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