Alicja Bachleda-Curuś
Alicja Bachleda-Curuś | |
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 Bachleda Curuś at the premiere of Ondine at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival. | |
| Born | 12 May 1983 Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico |
| Occupation(s) | Actress, singer |
| Years active | 1991–present |
| Children | 1 (son) |
Alicja Bachleda-Curuś (pron. [aˈlit͡sʲa baˈxlɛda ˈt͡suruɕ]; born 12 May 1983) is a Polish actress and singer, who has appeared in films including Trade, Ondine and Pan Tadeusz.
Early life
Bachleda-Curuś was born in Tampico, Mexico. She is the daughter of Lidia and Tadeusz Bachleda-Curuś, a geologist who was working in Mexico at that time. Her uncle is the former mayor of Zakopane, Poland, Adam Bachleda-Curuś.
While growing up in Poland, Bachleda studied at the National Ballet Academy in Kraków (1989–98) and at the National Academy of Music's vocal department in Kraków (1998–2000).[1] She studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York City.
Acting career
At age 15, 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 Poland, appearing in the German film Sommersturm, a coming of age story, in 2004. Bachleda-Curuś returned to Mexico to film the 2007 thriller Trade, starring Kevin Kline, 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, a mythological seal/human.
In 2012 Bachleda-Curuś starred as Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Poland in September Eleven 1683, and appeared in a lead role in The Girl Is in Trouble.
Personal life
On 7 October 2009, she gave birth to a son, Henry Tadeusz Farrell, born in Los Angeles, California, US.[2] The boy was fathered by Irish actor Colin Farrell and was baptized on 29 December 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 and Bachleda-Curuś had separated.
Filmography
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Film
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Vis a vis | — | Borys Lankosz | Short film |
| 1999 | Pan Tadeusz | Zosia Horeszkówna | Andrzej Wajda | — |
| 1999 | The Gateway of Europe | Zosia | Jerzy Wójcik | — |
| 2000 | Syzyfowe prace | Anna "Biruta" Stogowska | Pawel Komorowski | — |
| 2001 | Herz über Kopf | Wanda | Michael Gutmann | — |
| 2004 | Summer Storm | Anke | Marco Kreuzpaintner | — |
| 2004 | Das Blut der Templer | Stella | Florian Baxmeyer | Television film |
| 2006 | Comme des voleurs (à l'est) | Anke | Lionel Baier | — |
| 2007 | Trade | Veronica | Marco Kreuzpaintner | — |
| 2007 | Der geköpfte Hahn | Gisela Glückselig | Radu Gabrea | — |
| 2009 | Ondine | Ondine | Neil Jordan | — |
| 2010 | Friendship! | Zoey | Markus Goller | — |
| 2012 | The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683 | Eleonora Habsburżanka | Markus Goller | — |
| 2015 | The Girl Is in Trouble | Signe | Julius Onah | — |
| 2015 | Breathe | Ania Kardel | Paul Kowalski | Short film |
| 2015 | Edge | Pilar | Shane Black | Television film |
| 2016 | 7 rzeczy, których nie wiecie o facetach | Basia | Kinga Lewinska | — |
| 2016 | The American Side | Nikki Meeker | Jenna Ricker | — |
| 2016 | Polaris | Baran | Soudabeh Moradian | — |
| 2016 | Pitbull: Tough Women | Malgorzata "Drabina" Bojke | Patryk Vega | — |
Television series
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Lokatorzy | Gabrysia | — |
| 2002–2004 | Na dobre i na zle | Anna Bochenek | — |
| 2005 | Sperling | Alina Serkovic | — |
Video games
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Wolfenstein: The New Order | Anya Oliwa | — |
| 2017 | Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus | Anya Oliwa | — |
| 2019 | Wolfenstein: Youngblood | Anya Oliwa | — |
Discography
Albums
- Klimat (2001)
Singles
- "Dotknąć nieba" (with Piotr Cugowski (son of Krzysztof Cugowski)) (2007)
- "Klimat" (2001)
- "Ich verlier mich gern in Dir" (from the film Herz Im Kopf) (2001)
- "Marzyć chcę" (1999)
References
- ^ Vladek Juszkiewicz & Robert J. Wierzbicki. ""Artist / VIP Gallery ALICJA BACHLEDA-CURUS", Polish Film Festival web site". Polishfilmla.org. Archived from the original on 25 March 2017. Retrieved 5 March 2012.
- ^ Michaud, Sarah (30 October 2009). "Colin Farrell and Girlfriend Welcome a Son – Babies, Colin Farrell". People.com. Retrieved 9 May 2010.
External links
- 1983 births
- Living people
- People from Tampico, Tamaulipas
- Mexican female singers
- Mexican film actresses
- Polish film actresses
- Mexican Roman Catholics
- Polish Roman Catholics
- 21st-century Polish actresses
- Mexican people of Polish descent
- Polish female singers
- Polish pop singers
- Singers from Tamaulipas
- 21st-century Mexican singers
- 21st-century Polish singers
- 21st-century women singers