Alicja Bachleda-Curuś

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.

Alicja Bachleda-Curuś
Bachleda Curuś at the premiere of Ondine at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival.
Born (1983-05-12) 12 May 1983
Tampico, Mexico
NationalityPolish
EducationLee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute
Occupation
  • Actress
  • singer
Years active1991–present
Children1

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

At age 15, Bachleda landed a lead role in the 1999 film Pan Tadeusz, directed by Academy Award-winning Polish director Andrzej Wajda. Four years later, she won a role in Polish soap opera Na dobre i na złe. 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
Alicja Bachleda at the Gdynia Film Festival in 2010.

Film
YearTitleRoleDirectorNotes
1996 Vis a vis N/A Borys Lankosz Short film
1999 Pan Tadeusz Zosia Horeszkówna Andrzej Wajda N/A
1999 The Gateway of Europe Zosia Jerzy Wójcik N/A
2000 Syzyfowe prace Anna "Biruta" Stogowska Pawel Komorowski N/A
2001 Herz über Kopf Wanda Michael Gutmann N/A
2004 Summer Storm Anke Marco Kreuzpaintner N/A
2004 Das Blut der Templer Stella Florian Baxmeyer Television film
2006 Comme des voleurs (à l'est) Anke Lionel Baier N/A
2007 Trade Veronica Marco Kreuzpaintner N/A
2007 Der geköpfte Hahn Gisela Glückselig Radu Gabrea N/A
2009 Ondine Ondine Neil Jordan N/A
2010 Friendship! Zoey Markus Goller N/A
2012 The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683 Eleonora Habsburżanka Markus Goller N/A
2015 The Girl Is in Trouble Signe Julius Onah N/A
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 N/A
2016 The American Side Nikki Meeker Jenna Ricker N/A
2016 Polaris Baran Soudabeh Moradian N/A
2016 Pitbull: Tough Women Malgorzata "Drabina" Bojke Patryk Vega N/A

Television series
YearTitleRoleNotes
2002 Lokatorzy Gabrysia N/A
2002–2004 Na dobre i na zle Anna Bochenek N/A
2005 Sperling Alina Serkovic N/A

Video games
YearTitleRoleNotes
2014 Wolfenstein: The New Order Anya Oliwa N/A
2017 Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus Anya Oliwa N/A
2019 Wolfenstein: Youngblood Anya Oliwa N/A

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
  1. 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.
  2. Michaud, Sarah (30 October 2009). "Colin Farrell and Girlfriend Welcome a Son – Babies, Colin Farrell". People.com. Retrieved 9 May 2010.
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