Alicja Bachleda-Curuś

Alicja Bachleda
Bachleda Curuś at the premiere of Ondine at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival.
Born	Alicja Bachleda-Curuś May 12, 1983 (1983-05-12) Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico
Other names	Ala (nickname)
Occupation	Actress/Singer
Years active	1991–present
Height	168 cm
Partner	Colin Farrell (2009–July 2010), 1 child

Alicja Bachleda-Curuś (pron. [aˈlit​͡sʲa baˈxlɛda ˈt​͡suruɕ]; born May 12, 1983) is a Polish actress and singer, who has appeared in films including Trade, Ondine, and Pan Tadeusz.

Early life

Bachleda was born in Mexico, city of Tampico, the daughter of Lidia and Tadeusz Bachleda-Curuś. Her uncle is Adam Bachleda-Curuś, former mayor of Zakopane.

While growing up in Poland, Bachleda studied at the National Ballet Academy in Kraków from 1989 to 1998, and at the National Academy of Music’s vocal department in Cracow from 1998 to 2000. As a 19 year old, she moved to the United States to study acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York City.

Acting career

Alicja Bachleda, Colin Farrell and director Neil Jordan at the Ondine premiere, 2010 Tribeca Film Festival in New York.

As a 15 year old, Bachleda landed a lead role in the 1999 film Pan Tadeusz, directed by Academy Award winning Polish director Andrzej Wajda.^{[citation needed]} Four years later, she won a role in Polish soap opera Na dobre i na złe.^{[citation needed]} Bachleda then began crossing over into mainstream films outside of Poland, appearing in the German film Sommersturm in 2004. She returned to her birthplace of Mexico to film the 2007 thriller Trade, starring Kevin Kline. The film gave an unflinching look at the world of human trafficking. Bachleda then returned to Europe to play a Jewish girl in the historical drama Der geköpfte Hahn, which took place during World War II in Transylvania, Romania. Her next film was 2009's Ondine, a film about an Irish fisherman who thinks he catches a selkie.

Bachleda is scheduled to star in an upcoming John Jopson movie, The Absinthe Drinkers, set in 19th century Europe. Bachleda was cast as Artemisia von Rach, a talented young German painter. The cast includes John Hurt, Tim Roth, Keith Carradine, Peter Facinelli and Jürgen Prochnow.

As of August 2010, Bachleda is set to star in a movie titled The Girl Is in Trouble. The Girl Is In Trouble is scheduled to be shown at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, USA.

As of July 2010, Bachleda was scheduled to act in an Italian and Polish film titled 11 September 1683:The Battle of Vienna', formerly titled The Battle of Vienna.

Personal life

On October 7, 2009, she became the mother of Irish actor Colin Farrell's son - Henry Tadeusz Farrell - born in Los Angeles. The boy was baptized on December 29, 2009 in the Roman Catholic Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Kraków. It was reported on 15 October 2010 that Farrell left Bachleda a couple of months before. Soon after it was officially confirmed.

Filmography

• 11 september 1683:''The Battle of Vienna'' (Italy, Poland, 2011), by Renzo Martinelli
• The Absinthe Drinkers (Italy, USA, 2011), by John Jopson
• The Girl is in Trouble (USA, 2010), by Julius Onah
• Friendship! (Germany, USA 2010), by Markus Goller
• Ondine (Ireland, USA, 2009), by Neil Jordan
• Cocoşul decapitat (English title: The Beheaded Rooster) (România, Hungary 2008), by Radu Gabrea
• Trade (Germany, USA, 2007), by Marco Kreuzpaintner
• Comme des voleurs (English title: Stealth) (Switzerland, France 2006), by Lionel Baier
• Das Blut der Templer (English title: Code of the Templars) (Germany, 2004)
• Summer Storm (Germany, 2004), by Marco Kreuzpaintner
• Na dobre i na złe (TV series, Poland, 2002–2004)
• Herz im Kopf (Germany, 2001), for which Hans-Christian Schmid and Michael Gutmann wrote the screenplay
• Wrota Europy (Poland, 1999), by Jerzy Wojcik
• Pan Tadeusz (Poland, 1999), by Andrzej Wajda
• Syzyfowe prace (Poland, 1998), by Pawel Komorowski
• Tajemnica szkolnego dzwonka (Poland, Theatre of television, 1993)

Discography

Albums

• "12 songs composed by Władysław Szpilman" (2005)
• "Klimat" (2001)
• "Nie załamuj się" (1996)
• "Sympatyczne sny" (1991)

Singles

Bachleda Curuś in Krakow, Poland

• "Dotknąć nieba" (with Piotr Cugowski (son of Krzysztof Cugowski)) (2007)
• "Nie pytaj, nie pytaj mnie" (2002)
• "Klimat" (2001)
• "Ich verlier mich gern in Dir" (from the film Herz Im Kopf) (2001)
• "Marzyć chcę" (1999)
• "Nie załamuj się – minuta fantazji" (1996)
• "Sympatyczne sny" (1991)

External links

• Alicja Bachleda-Curuś at the Internet Movie Database
• Alicja in New York Times May 2007
• Alicja in GQ Magazine July 2007
• Interview with Alicja Bachleda Ondine 2010
• Interview with Alicja Bachleda Presented by Linda O'Brien