Emerging from Warsaw’s State Academy of Theatre, she refused the dean’s suggestion of cosmetic alteration and launched a career that quickly earned critical praise. Breakthrough roles in the mid-1960s included the enigmatic heroine of Wojciech Has’s The Saragossa Manuscript, the sharp-witted lead in Stanisław Bareja’s Marriage of Convenience, and a poignant performance in Andrzej Wajda’s Everythin…
