Carolina Bartczak

Carolina Bartczak (born October 5, 1985) is a Canadian actress. She is known for her role as Magda Gurzsky, the wife of Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto, in X-Men: Apocalypse and Lily Kryger in the Netflix series Painkiller. She will also star as Abigail Walker in the upcoming release of the CBC series Plan B and worked as a travel writer/photographer in southern Croatia. She turned to acting in 2009 and attended the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City. Carolina Bartczak has dual citizenship between Canada and Poland and speaks French and Polish fluently.

Career Carolina Bartczak's first role was playing the voice of Alfred Hedgehog in the cartoon The Mysteries of Alfred Hedgehog. Her first on screen role was playing a high maintenance mother opposite Brendan Gleeson, and Neil Patrick Harris in The Smurfs 2. Bartczak also played Nurse Clara in the action film Brick Mansions opposite Paul Walker and as Amanda Dean in the film Business Ethics opposite Larenz Tate. Her most famous role was Magda Gurzsky, the wife of Erik Lehnsherr in X-Men: Apocalypse. In 2018, she was cast as the lead in a film by the CBC, An Audience of Chairs written by Rosemary House. Carolina Bartczak plays Maura, a beautiful woman suffering from mental illness based on a novel of the same name written by Joan Clark. The film was released in Canada on March 22, 2019. Carolina played the role of Brenda Lopez, starring opposite Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson, Charlie Plummer, and Michael Peña in the Roland Emmerich 2022 Sci-Fi action film, Moonfall by Lionsgate.

In 2024, she was announced as starring in the upcoming third season of the anthology drama series Plan B.

Filmography + Film, Television and Gaming Roles Year Title Role Notes 2010 The Mysteries of Alfred Hedgehog Alfred Hedgehog (voice) TV series 2011 RoomBuds Carly Short film 2011 Screwed Mirabel TV series 2011 Crazy Photographer Ivanka Trovovich Feature film 2011 Wilt Red Dress Girl Feature film 2012 Covert Affairs Debra TV series 2013 Karma's a Bitch Kaira TV series 2013 The Listener Sarah Wembley TV series 2013 The Smurfs 2 Peanut Mom Feature film 2013 Plato's Reality Machine Maggie Feature film 2014 Brick Mansions Nurse Clara Feature film 2014 Femme Brulee Colleen Zimmerman Short film 2015 Gray Area Nina Short film 2015 The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe Phyllis TV series 2015 Mayday Lauren Bessette TV series 2016 Business Ethics Amanda Dean Feature film 2016 Cleverly Disguised Dana Short film 2016 X-Men: Apocalypse Magda Gurzsky Feature film 2017 Rainbow Six Siege Zofia Bosak Video game 2017 An Audience of Chairs Maura Mackenzie Feature film 2018 The Bold Type Eden TV series 2018 Far Cry 5 Cult Leader Video game 2019 Carter Abigail TV series 2019 White Lie Magda Feature film 2020 Most Dangerous Game Wife TV series 2020 Hall Val Feature film 2022 Moonfall Brenda Lopez Feature film 2023 Beacon 23 Dr. Ree Avalon TV series 2023 Painkiller Lily Kryger TV series 2025 Plan B Abigail Walker 2026 The Voices of Our Mother Therese