Magdalena Cielecka is a Polish

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 film and theatre actress. Cielecka spent her childhood in a small town Żarki-Letnisko. In 1995, she graduated from Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Teatralna in Cracow. Soon after the studies she joined the Teatr Stary Theatre Company in Cracow, where she played until 2001. Then she moved to Warsaw and joined the Teatr Rozmaitości (TR Warszawa

TR Warszawa

TR Warszawa is a theatre in Warsaw, Poland, by Marszałkowska Str., 8.-History:...

) Theatre Company.
Although she debuted in cinema quite early in a film by Barbara Sass called Pokuszenie (1995), she initially was known mainly for her work in theatre. A few years later she became widely recognized as an actress and she gained popularity with her cinematic roles such as Samotność w sieci or the TV series Magda M.

Magda M.

-Current cast members:- Poland Television Ratings :-Plot:Magdalena Miłowicz is a young lawyer who seems to be a little lost in her love life, until she meets Peter, a man who also turns out to be a lawyer. After they met, they fall madly in love....

Her notable roles include:

• Witold Gombrowicz
  Witold Gombrowicz
  Witold Marian Gombrowicz was a Polish novelist and dramatist. His works are characterized by deep psychological analysis, a certain sense of paradox and an absurd, anti-nationalist flavor...
  
   - Operetka
• Edward Bond
  Edward Bond
  Edward Bond is an English playwright, theatre director, poet, theorist and screenwriter. He is the author of some fifty plays, among them Saved , the production of which was instrumental in the abolition of theatre censorship in the UK...
  
   - Saved
• The Dybbuk
  The Dybbuk (play)
  The Dybbuk, or Between Two Worlds is a 1914 play by S. Ansky, relating the story of a young bride possessed by a dybbuk —a malicious possessing spirit, believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person— on the eve of her wedding...
  
  , 2004 (directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski)
• Krum, 2007 (directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski)
• Sarah Kane
  Sarah Kane
  Sarah Kane was an English playwright. Her plays deal with themes of redemptive love, sexual desire, pain, torture — both physical and psychological — and death. They are characterised by a poetic intensity, pared-down language, exploration of theatrical form and, in her earlier work, the use of...
  
    - 4.48 Psychosis
  4.48 Psychosis
  4.48 Psychosis is a play by British playwright Sarah Kane. It was her last work, first staged at the Royal Court's Jerwood Theatre Upstairs on June 23, 2000, nearly one and a half years after Kane's February 20, 1999 death...
  
  (directed by Grzegorz Jarzyna)
• Manuela Gretkowska
  Manuela Gretkowska
  Manuela Gretkowska is a Polish writer, screenwriter and politician. She is the founder of the Polish Women's Party.-Biography:...
  
   - Sandra K.

At the 2008 Edinburgh International Festival

Edinburgh International Festival

The Edinburgh International Festival is a festival of performing arts that takes place in the city of Edinburgh, Scotland, over three weeks from around the middle of August. By invitation from the Festival Director, the International Festival brings top class performers of music , theatre, opera...

 she played the leading role
in a critically acclaimed adaptation of Kane's 4.48 Psychosis by the Polish theatre company TR Warszawa.

Filmography

• Pokuszenie (1995)
• L'Élève (1996)
• Sława i chwała (1998) TV mini-series
• Amok (1998)
• Jak narkotyk (1999)
• Zakochani (2000)
• Egoiści (2000)
• Weiser (2001)
• Listy miłosne (2001)
• Faithful (2002)
• Powiedz to, Gabi (2003)
• Trzeci (2004)
• Po sezonie (2005)
• Boża podszewka. Cześć druga (2005) TV series
• S@motność w sieci (2006)
• Palimpsest (2006)
• Chaos (2006)
• Oficerowie (2006) TV mini-series
• Kolekcja (2006) (TV)
• Magda M.
  Magda M.
  -Current cast members:- Poland Television Ratings :-Plot:Magdalena Miłowicz is a young lawyer who seems to be a little lost in her love life, until she meets Peter, a man who also turns out to be a lawyer. After they met, they fall madly in love....
  
  (TV series)
• Droga wewnętrzna (2006) (TV)
• Katyń
  Katyn (film)
  Katyń is a 2007 Polish film about the 1940 Katyn massacre, directed by Academy Honorary Award winner Andrzej Wajda. It is based on the book Post Mortem: The Story of Katyn by Andrzej Mularczyk...
  
  (2007)

External links

• Interview with Magdalena Cielecka - Scotland on Sunday
  Scotland on Sunday
  Scotland on Sunday is a Scottish Sunday newspaper, published in Edinburgh by The Scotsman Publications Ltd and consequently assuming the role of Sunday sister to its daily stablemate The Scotsman...
  
  , 03 August 2008
• 4.48 Psychosis and Dybbuk - Edinburgh International Festival website
• Magdalena Cielecka's presentation