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Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya (Russian: Ма́йя Миха́йловна Плисе́цкая; 20 November 1925 – 2 May 2015) was a Soviet ballet dancer, choreographer, ballet director, and actress. In post-Soviet times, she held ...
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Anna Dymna (née Dziadyk ) (born July 20, 1951) is a Polish TV, film and theatre actress of Armenian descent. Foundress of a charity foundation Mimo Wszystko (Against the Odds).
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Anne-Sophie Mutter (born 29 June 1963) is a German violinist. Born and raised in Rheinfelden, Baden-Württemberg, Mutter started playing the violin at age five and continued studies in Germany and Swit ...
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Daniel Marcel Olbrychski (born 27 February 1945) is a Polish actor best known for leading roles in several Andrzej Wajda movies and also known for playing a defector and spymaster Vassily Orlov, alongside ...
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Krystyna Jolanta Janda (born 18 December 1952) is a Polish film and theatre actress, director, and singer. She is best known internationally for playing leading roles in several films by Polish film d ...
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Nina Andrycz (11 November 1912 – 31 January 2014) was a Polish actress and the wife of Józef Cyrankiewicz. She studied law at the Wilno University.
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Arvo Pärt (born 11 September 1935) is an Estonian composer of classical and religious music. Since the late 1970s, Pärt has worked in a minimalist style that employs his self-invented compositional te ...
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Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez CBE (26 March 1925 – 5 January 2016) was a French composer, conductor, writer and founder of several musical institutions. He was one of the dominant figures of the post-war ...
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Danuta Szaflarska (6 February 1915 – 19 February 2017) was a Polish screen and stage actress. In 2008 she was awarded the Złota Kaczka for the best Polish actress of the century. Szaflarska participated ...
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Jerzy Oskar Stuhr (18 April 1947 – 9 July 2024) was a Polish film and theatre actor. He was one of the most popular, influential and versatile Polish actors. He also worked as a screenwriter, film director ...
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Andrzej Piotr Grabowski (born 15 March 1952 in Chrzanów, Poland) is a Polish actor, singer and comedian. He is best known for playing the role of Ferdynand Kiepski in the TV series Świat według Kiepskich ...
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Jan Aleksander Englert (born 11 May 1943) is a Polish film actor. He has appeared in more than 60 films since 1957. Since 2003 he has served as Artistic Director of the National Theatre in Warsaw.
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Anna Weronika Bielicka (9 November 1915 – 9 March 2006) was a Polish singer and actress who was known by the name Hanna and its affectionate diminutive Hanka.
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Jadwiga Barańska (21 October 1935 – 24 October 2024) was a Polish actress and screenwriter. She was married to Polish director Jerzy Antczak. Together they had one child, Mikołaj Antczak, born in 1964 ...