Joanna Kanska
Joanna Kanska (born 1 April 1959) is a Polish-British actress who has worked in films, television, theatre and radio. She migrated to the United Kingdom in 1984.
Joanna Kanska | |
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Born | Joanna Osmakiewicz[1] 1 April 1959 Nowy Sącz, Poland |
Known for | A Very Peculiar Practice |
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] She also played the part of a Sudeten German woman in the first episode of Foyle's War.
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
- "Joanna Kanska". FilmWeb.pl. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
- "Kierunek: Aktorstwo dzienne 5-letnie" (in Polish). nk.pl. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
- "Joanna Kanska". TV.com. CBS Interactive.
- "Save Export Print Cite No One Can Match the Man I Loved and Lost; Interview : Joanna Kanska". The Daily Mirror. 17 April 1996.