Born in wartime Heilbronn and raised in Warsaw, he graduated from the National Academy of Dramatic Art and started at Teatr Ateneum. The 1970s brought fame through Andrzej Wajda’s films-Without Anesthesia, The Promised Land, Man of Iron-and a Silver Bear for Dyrygent (1980). Settling in France after Poland’s martial law, he joined the Comédie-Française as its third non-French member and collaborat…
