Urszula Modrzyńska

Urszula Modrzyńska (; 23 February 1928 – 11 December 2010) was a Polish stage and film actress.

Career

Modrzyńska began her career on stage on October 4th 1949 in a performance of Okno w lesie at the Ziemi Pomorskiej Theater in Grudziądz, followed by a performance of Wiosna w Norwegii in the same theater the next year. She began performing at the Jaracz Theatre when she moved to Łódź in 1954. In 1961, Kazimierz Dejmek invited her to perform as Irina in a production of Three Sisters at the Łódź Nowy Theater, where she would continue performing for the rest of her career.

She was a part of many productions for Teatrze Telewizji (a Polish channel which broadcasts live television plays ), including William Shakespeare's As You Like It in 1963 and Dama pikowa by Alexander Pushkin in 1964 She was married to the actor and director Zbigniew Józefowicz, with whom she had a son named Stanislaus. Immediately after her 1984 production of Zmierzchu, she retired from acting due to an unknown illness which she had been dealing with since 1961. She died on 20 December 2010 in Łódź