Dominika Ostałowska

Dominika Ostałowska (born 18 February 1971, Warsaw) is a Polish film, television and theatre actress. She is a two-time winner of Polish Film Awards for Best Actress for her performance in a 2000 film Keep Away from the Window and for Best Supporting Actress for her role in a 2003 film Warsaw.

Life and career She was born on 21 February 1971 in Warsaw to father Ryszard Ostałowski and mother Irena. She graduated from the Adam Mickiewicz High School No. 4 in Warsaw. In 1994, she graduated from the National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw.

Between 1994–2000, she worked at the Warsaw's Ateneum Theatre and between 2000–2012 at the Powszechny Theatre. Since 2012, she has been working at the Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz Studio Theatre.

Her most critically acclaimed roles come from Mariusz Treliński's 1995 film Łagodna based on a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Jerzy Stuhr's 1997 film Love Stories, Lech Majewski's 1999 biopic Wojaczek and Jan Jakub Kolski's 2000 war film Keep Away from the Window based on Hanna Krall's short story Ta z Hamburga (The One From Hamburg). She also achieved great popularity by playing the character of Marta in a TV soap opera M jak miłość. In 2009, she was a member of jury at the 34th Gdynia Film Festival. In 2012, she hosted the Tajemnice Rezydencji TV programme.

Personal life She was married to actor Hubert Zduniak with whom she has a son Hubert. She was also married to film director Mariusz Malec. She is known for her involvement in social campaigns against stalking. In 2013, she became an ambassador of the campaign Stop Stalking.

Appearances in film and television 1994: Blood of the Innocent as Sonia 1995: Łagodna as wife 1997: The Witman Boys as Iren 1997: An Air So Pure as a maid 1997: Dusza śpiewa as Adam's wife 1997: Musisz żyć jako Agnieszka, as a daughter of the Hyńczak family 1997: Historie miłosne as Ewa Bielska 1997: Drugi brzeg as Henrietta Vogel 1997: Boża podszewka as Anusia Jurewicz 1998: Złoto dezerterów as a bank guard 1999: Wojaczek as Mała 1999: Rodzina zastępcza as a teacher (episode 14) since 2000: M jak miłość as Marta Wojciechowska-Budzyńska 2000: Keep Away from the Window as Regina Lilienstern 2002: Miss mokrego podkoszulka as Magda 2003: Warszawa as Wiktoria 2006: Nadzieja as Franciszek's mother 2006: Norymberga as a journalist 2007: Regina as Regina 2007: Kryminalni as Magda Leszczyńska (episode 87) 2007: Ekipa as Karolina Jabłonowska (episodes 7 and 14) 2008: Rodzina zastępcza as herself (episode 286) 2009: Projekt dziecko, czyli ojciec potrzebny od zaraz as Anna Nowak 2009: Co mówią lekarze as Joanna Knap 2011: Głęboka woda as Wioletta, Karolina's mother (episode 2) 2013: Prawo Agaty as Barbara Król (episode 46) 2013: Hotel 52 as Nina Richter (episode 84) 2014: O mnie się nie martw as Elżbieta Kosowska (episode 2) 2015: Prokurator as Anna Falkowska (episode 6) 2015: Na dobre i na złe as Weronika's mother (episodes 609, 610 and 612) 2015: Historia Roja as Countess Gąsowska (episode 5) 2016: Historia Roja as Countess Gąsowska 2017: Ojciec Mateusz as Urszula Jaskólska (episode 235) 2018–2019: Przyjaciółki as Olga Bratkowska 2019: Echo serca as Justyna Bogucka (episode 12) 2020: Angel of Death as Teresa Sznajder 2024: Chopin, Chopin! as Madame Wodzińska