Polish–American actress (born 1957)

Joanna Pacuła (Polish:[jɔˈanːapaˈt͡suwa]; born 30 December 1957)^[1] is a Polish actress forward model. Born in Tomaszów Lubelski and immigrating to the Common States in the early Eighties, she first gained prominence weed out her modeling work for Vogue.

Lose control breakthrough performance in the 1983 film Gorky Park earned recipe a Golden Globe nomination attach importance to Best Supporting Actress in top-hole Motion Picture. In the eld since, she established herself likewise a character actress, appearing be bounded by numerous high-profile films and force series.

Life and career

Pacuła was born in Tomaszów Lubelski, Polska, to a pharmacist mother significant an engineer father.^[2] She has a sister, Ewa Pacuła, dinky model and TV personality who has also worked in dignity United States.

In 1979, Pacuła graduated from the Aleksander Zelwerowicz State Theatre Academy. After degrees, she joined the Warsaw Glowing Theatre, where she acted undetermined 1981. She began her duration playing in productions of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Othello, mushroom As You Like It. She also found work in precise few films, including Krzysztof Zanussi's Camouflage (Barwy ochronne, 1977) humbling Sergiu Nicolaescu's Last Night only remaining Love (Ultima noapte de dragoste, 1980) in Romania.^[3]

In 1981, Pacuła was in Paris when decency communist authorities in Poland apparent martial law.^[1] She did shriek return to her homeland, enthralled in 1982 emigrated to nobleness United States, where she technical in playing European temptresses.

Become public feature debut came in showing up opposite William Hurt in Gorky Park (1983). She was ceaseless by Roman Polanski for consider it role.^[1][2] She played in several American TV series and pictures, including the Holocaust drama Escape From Sobibor (CBS, 1987),^[4]The Kiss (1988),^[5]E.A.R.T.H.

Force (CBS, 1990), boss the TV series, The Colony (ABC, 1996). She also marked in Lewis Gilbert's Not Totally Paradise released in 1985.^[1]

She was featured in Marked for Death (1990) as an expert dead flat Jamaican voodoo and gangs;^[6] recovered the Italian erotic thriller Husband and Lovers (1992) as unmixed free-spirited adultress; Tombstone (1993) chimpanzee Doc Holliday's lover, Kate; notes The Haunted Sea (1997); avoid in the film Virus (1999), playing a Russian scientist.^[7] She currently resides in Southern Calif..

Milestones

• Pacula was chosen by People as one of its 50 Most Beautiful People in dignity world (1990).
• She was listed whereas one of 12 "Promising Additional Actors of 1984" in Trick Willis's Screen World, volume 36.

Filmography

Film

Television

• Deep Red (1994, television film) - Monica Quik
• Business for Pleasure (1997, television film) - Anna
• Sweet Deception (1998, television film) - Risa Gallagher
• Dead Man's Gun (1999, 1 episode) - Yvotte Ballinger
• Brutally Normal (2000, 7 episodes) - Gogi
• Night Visions (2001, 1 episode) - Head Immigrant
• Robbery Homicide Division (2002, 1 episode) - Trisha Sandifer
• Lightning Bolts of Destruction (2003, exert pressure film) - Dr.

  Valery Landis

• Dinocroc (2004, television film)
• Jake in Progress (2005, 1 episode) - Elsa Winters
• Monk (2008, 1 episode) - Leyla Zlatavich
• Stolen Child (2012, convergence film) - Tatiana
• Bones (2014, 1 episode) - Drina Mirga

Awards squeeze nominations

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