Alicja Bobrowska

Alicja Bobrowska (8 January 1936 – 13 January 2025) was a Polish actress, television presenter and artist. She won the Miss Polonia beauty pageant in 1957.

Biography Bobrowska was born on 8 January 1936 in Volodymyr, Malopolskie (an area disputed by the Second Polish Republic, Bolshevist Russia, and the Ukrainian People's Republic, now part of Ukraine). Her baptism was recorded in the church books "affiliation" column as "Polish emigrant". She lived with her family in Gdańsk, Poland, after World War II.

Bobrowska won the Miss Polonia beauty pageant in 1957, held at the Gdańsk Shipyard, becoming the first post-war winner of the competition. Her crown was modelled on the medieval crown of Queen Jadwiga of Poland.

In Poland, Bobrowska became an actress, performing at theatres in Kraków and Warsaw. She married Polish actor Stanisław Zaczyk and they had a son together. including in the Polish film Malzenstwo z rozsadku (Marriage of Convenience, 1967) by Stanisław Bareja and in the Egyptian film Loghat El Hob (1974) by Zoheir Bakir. She also worked as a television presented for public service broadcaster Telewizja Polska. In 2004, Bobrowska returned to Poland as a guest at Miss Polonia. A funeral mass was held at the Church of Our Lady of Jasna Góra in Los Angeles and her body was repatriated to Gdańsk, Poland, for burial in the family plot.