Joanna Pacuła

Joanna Pacuła (; born 30 December 1957) She has a sister, Ewa Pacuła, a model and TV personality who has also worked in the United States. In addition to her native Polish, Pacuła is also fluent in Russian and English.

Career In 1979, Pacuła graduated from the Aleksander Zelwerowicz State Theatre Academy. After graduation, she joined the Warsaw Dramatic Theatre, where she acted until 1981. She began her career playing in productions of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Othello, and As You Like It. She also found work in a few films, including Krzysztof Zanussi's Camouflage (Barwy ochronne, 1977) and Sergiu Nicolaescu's Last Night of Love (, 1980) in Romania.

In 1981, Pacuła was in Paris when the communist authorities in Poland declared martial law. The Kiss (1988), E.A.R.T.H. Force (CBS, 1990), and the TV series, The Colony (ABC, 1996). She also starred in Lewis Gilbert's Not Quite Paradise released in 1985.

She was featured in Marked for Death (1990) as an expert on Jamaican voodoo and gangs; in the Italian erotic thriller Husband and Lovers (1992) as a free-spirited adultress; Tombstone (1993) as Doc Holliday's lover, Kate; in The Haunted Sea (1997); and in the film Virus (1999), playing a Russian scientist. She currently resides in Southern California.

Personal life Pacula began dating film producer Hawk Koch in 1983, after he cast her in Gorky Park on the recommendation of Roman Polanski. They later separated.

She was listed as one of 12 "Promising New Actors of 1984" in John Willis's Screen World, volume 36.

Filmography Film

Television

Awards and nominations +AwardsYearAwardCategoryProductionResult 1983 Golden Globe Awards Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture Gorky Park 1988 Saturn Awards Saturn Award for Best Actress The Kiss