Alicja Bachleda-Curuś

Alicja Bachleda-Curuś (pron. ; born 12 May 1983) is a Polish actress and singer who has appeared in films including Trade, Ondine and Pan Tadeusz.

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. She has a brother, Tadeusz Bachleda-Curuś and half-sister, Urszula Welenc. Her uncle, Adam Bachleda-Curuś, is the former mayor of Zakopane, Poland, the city where she was raised.

While growing up in Poland, Bachleda studied at the Elżbieta Armatys's Theater, Music and Dance Studio with an additional profile with extended learning of Spanish and English. She studied Iberian studies and cultural studies at the Jagiellonian University, but suspended her studies due to professional reasons She studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York City, as well as psychology at the University of California where she graduated with a degree in art history.

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 , 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 in Los Angeles, Bachleda-Curuś gave birth to her son Henry with Irish actor Colin Farrell. He was baptized on 29 December 2009 in the 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

Film Year Title Role Director Notes 1996 Vis a vis Borys Lankosz Short film 1999 Pan Tadeusz Zosia Horeszkówna Andrzej Wajda 1999 The Gateway of Europe Zosia Jerzy Wójcik 2000 Syzyfowe prace Anna "Biruta" Stogowska Paweł Komorowski 2001 Wanda Michael Gutmann 2004 Summer Storm Anke Marco Kreuzpaintner 2004 Stella Florian Baxmeyer Television film 2006 Comme des voleurs (à l'est) Anke Lionel Baier Romantic comedy film 2007 Trade Veronica Marco Kreuzpaintner 2007 Gisela Glückselig Radu Gabrea 2009 Ondine Ondine Neil Jordan 2010 Friendship! Zoey Markus Goller 2012 The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683 Eleonora Habsburżanka Markus Goller 2015 The Girl Is in Trouble Signe Julius Onah 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 Lewińska Comedy film 2016 The American Side Nikki Meeker Jenna Ricker 2016 Polaris Baran Soudabeh Moradian 2016 Pitbull: Tough Women Małgorzata "Drabina" Bojke Patryk Vega Crime and drama film

Television series Year Title Role Notes 2002 Lokatorzy Gabrysia Comedy film 2002–2004 Na dobre i na złe Anna Bochenek Romantic drama film 2005 Sperling Alina Serkovic Crime film

Video games Year Title Role Notes 2014 Wolfenstein: The New Order Anya Oliwa 2017 Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus Anya Oliwa 2019 Wolfenstein: Youngblood Anya Oliwa

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 Heart Over Head) (2001) "Marzyć chcę" (1999)