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Joanna Kanska
Born
Joanna Osmakiewicz[1]

(1959-04-01) 1 April 1959 (age 65)

Joanna Kanska (born 1 April 1959) is a Polish-British actress who has worked in films, television, theatre and radio. She immigrated to the United Kingdom in 1984.

Career

Born in Nowy Sącz, she attended the National Film School in Łódź from 1976 to 1980.[2]

Kanska's best known roles on television were as a Polish academic, Grete Gretowska, in the second series of the BBC's A Very Peculiar Practice (1988) (and a sequel, A Very Polish Practice in 1992), as Sirkka Nieminen in Capital City (1990) and as KGB Major Nina Grishna in the BBC's mini-series Sleepers (1991).[3]

Personal life

Shortly after her arrival in the UK, Kanska married Polish artist Kaz Kanski after a romance of a few weeks. They were divorced five years later, but she retained her married name (the feminine version of Kanski). She has a son named Christopher from a subsequent relationship.[4]

Notes

  1. ^ "Joanna Kanska". FilmWeb.pl. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
  2. ^ "Kierunek: Aktorstwo dzienne 5-letnie" (in Polish). nk.pl. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
  3. ^ "Joanna Kanska". TV.com. CBS Interactive.
  4. ^ "Save Export Print Cite No One Can Match the Man I Loved and Lost; Interview : Joanna Kanska". The Daily Mirror. 17 April 1996.