Gosia Dobrowolska

Gosia Dobrowolska (born Małgorzata Dobrowolska, 2 June 1958, in Kamienna Góra), is a Polish-born Australian actress.

Biography

She has one brother, Janusz Dobrowolski, who also made a minor appearance in the 1984 film, Silver City.

Dobrowolska left Poland in 1981 and arrived in Australia in 1983 with her then husband Bogdan Koca. Her first Australian film was Silver City, where she played a Polish immigrant.

Paul Cox specifically wrote the 1991 film A Woman's Tale for Sheila Florance. Directed by Cox, Dobrowolska plays a nurse who befriends an elderly woman (Florance) dying of cancer.

Filmography

Film Year Film Role Type 1981 Dreszcze (aka Shivers) Malgosia Feature film 1984 Silver City Nina Feature film 1986 The Surfer Gina Feature film 1987 Around the World in 80 Ways Nurse Ophelia Cox Feature film 1988 Phobia Renata Simmons Feature film 1990 Golden Braid Terese Feature film 1991 A Woman's Tale Anna Feature film 1992 The Nun and the Bandit Zenaida Feature film 1992 Careful Zenaida Feature film 1992 Resistance Mrs. Wilson Feature film 1993 The Custodian Josie Feature film 1993 Touch Me Sarah Film short 1994 Exile Midwife Feature film 1996 Lust and Revenge Cecilia Applebaum Feature film 1999 A Week in the Life of a Man Anna Borowski Feature film 2005 Doskonale popoludine Maria Mielczarek Feature film 2009 Defect Marie Film short 2011 On Borrowed Time Herself Feature film documentary 2014 Obywatel Younger Jan's Mother Feature film

Television Year Film Role Type 1984 City West Nada Stankovic TV series, 7 episodes 1984 The Mike Walsh Show Guest - Herself TV series, 1 episode 1984 Special Squad TV series, 1 episode 1987 Rafferty's Rules Maz TV series, 1 episode 1987 I've Come About the Suicide Genevieve Lawson TV film 1987 Willing and Abel TV series, 1 episode 1988 Fields of Fire II Basia TV miniseries, 2 episodes 1988; 1994 The Midday Show Herself (with John Dingwall) TV series, 1 episode 1988-89 A Country Practice Marianna Kubik TV series, 5 episodes 1989 Fields of Fire III Basia TV miniseries, 2 episodes 1990 Mission: Impossible Alina TV series, Season 2, episode 7: "Target Earth" 1990 Sunday Guest TV series, 1 episode 1991 The Great Air Race (aka Half A World Away) Thea Rasche TV miniseries, 2 episodes 1991 Tonight Live with Steve Vizard Guest TV series, 1 episode 1992 G.P. Eve Walenska TV series, 1 episode 1992 Kevin Rampenbacker and the Electric Kettle TV film 1992 Big Ideas Anna Novak TV film 1993 Seven Deadly Sins TV series, episode: Greed 1994 Midday with Derryn Hinch Guest TV series, 1 episode 1994 Review Guest Presenter TV series, 1 episode 1995 English at Work Herself TV series, 1 episode: "Continence" 1995 Banjo Paterson's The Man from Snowy River (aka Snowy River: The McGregor Saga) Svetlana Koromanskaya TV series, 1 episode 1995 Spellbinder TV series, 1 episode 1996 Erotic Tales TV series, 1 episode 1997 The Hidden Dimension Claire Short film documentary 1997 Murder Call Vida Kristov TV series, 1 episode 1998 Never Tell Me Never Nurse Anne TV film 1999; 2006 All Saints Greta Patterson / Vera / Lillian Gehler TV series, 3 episodes 1999 The Movie Show Guest TV series, 1 episode 2011 East West 101 Yelena TV series, 1 episode 2020 The End Mrs. Bogdanowicz TV series, 3 episodes 2020 The Secrets She Keeps Anna Nowak TV series, 1 episode

Stage Year Title Role Company 1986 Hamlet Space Theatre, Adelaide, Sydney Opera House 1986 The Marriage Space Theatre, Adelaide, Sydney Opera House 1987 The Poet Assassinated The Performance Space, Sydney 1989 Karamazov Crossroads Theatre, Sydney 1995 Tongue of Stone 1996 Pentecost Wharf Theatre, Sydney 1997 The Stronger / Grushenka Director Belvoir Street Theatre 1997 The Promised Land : Tinsel and Ashes / Feast Bondi Pavilion 2004 Stone Sleeper Lennox Theatre, Parramatta