Alicja Bachleda-Curuś
Bachleda Curuś at the premiere of Ondine at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival.
Born (1983-05-12) 12 May 1983
Tampico, Mexico
NationalityPolish, Mexican
EducationLee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute
Occupations
  • Actress
  • singer
Years active1991–present
Children1

Alicja Bachleda-Curuś (pron. [aˈlit͡sʲja baˈxlɛda ˈt͡suruɕ]; born 12 May 1983) is a Mexican-born Polish actress and singer, who has appeared in films including Trade, Ondine and Pan Tadeusz.

Early life

Bachleda-Curuś was born in Tampico, Mexico. She is the daughter of Lidia and Tadeusz Bachleda-Curuś, a geologist who was working in Mexico at that time. She has a half-sister, Urszula Welenc. Her uncle, Adam Bachleda-Curuś, is the former mayor of Zakopane, Poland.

While growing up in Poland, Bachleda studied at the Elzbieta Armatys' Theater, Music and Dance Studio.[1][2] She studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York City.

Acting career

Alicja Bachleda, Colin Farrell and director Neil Jordan at the Ondine premiere, 2010 Tribeca Film Festival in New York.

At age 15, Bachleda landed a lead role in the 1999 film Pan Tadeusz, directed by Academy Award-winning Polish director Andrzej Wajda. Four years later, she won a role in Polish soap opera Na dobre i na złe. Bachleda then began crossing over into mainstream films outside Poland, appearing in the German film Sommersturm, a coming of age story, in 2004. Bachleda-Curuś returned to Mexico to film the 2007 thriller Trade, starring Kevin Kline, an unflinching look at the world of human trafficking. Bachleda then returned to Europe to play a Jewish girl in the historical drama The Beheaded Rooster, which took place during World War II in Transylvania, Romania. Her next film was 2009's Ondine, a film about an Irish fisherman who thinks he catches a selkie, a mythological seal/human.

In 2012 Bachleda-Curuś starred as Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Poland in September Eleven 1683, and appeared in a lead role in The Girl Is in Trouble.

Personal life

On 7 October 2009 in Los Angeles, Bachleda-Curuś gave birth to her son with Irish actor Colin Farrell.[3] He was baptized on 29 December 2009 in the Roman Catholic Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Kraków. It was reported on 15 October 2010 that Farrell and Bachleda-Curuś had separated.

Filmography

Alicja Bachleda at the Gdynia Film Festival in 2010.

Film

YearTitleRoleDirectorNotes
1996 Vis a vis[4] — Borys Lankosz Short film
1999 Pan Tadeusz Zosia Horeszkówna Andrzej Wajda —
1999 The Gateway of Europe Zosia Jerzy Wójcik —
2000 Syzyfowe prace Anna "Biruta" Stogowska Pawel Komorowski —
2001 Heart Over Head Wanda Michael Gutmann —
2004 Summer Storm Anke Marco Kreuzpaintner —
2004 Blood of the Templars Stella Florian Baxmeyer Television film
2006 Comme des voleurs (à l'est)[5] Anke Lionel Baier Romantic comedy film
2007 Trade Veronica Marco Kreuzpaintner —
2007 The Beheaded Rooster Gisela Glückselig Radu Gabrea —
2009 Ondine Ondine Neil Jordan —
2010 Friendship! Zoey Markus Goller —
2012 The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683 Eleonora Habsburżanka Markus Goller —
2015 The Girl Is in Trouble Signe Julius Onah —
2015 Breathe[6] Ania Kardel Paul Kowalski Short film
2015 Edge Pilar Shane Black Television film
2016 7 rzeczy, których nie wiecie o facetach[7] Basia Kinga Lewinska Comedy film
2016 The American Side Nikki Meeker Jenna Ricker —
2016 Polaris Baran Soudabeh Moradian —
2016 Pitbull: Tough Women[8] Malgorzata "Drabina" Bojke Patryk Vega Crime and drama film

Television series

YearTitleRoleNotes
2002 Lokatorzy[9] Gabrysia Comedy film
2002–2004 Na dobre i na zle[10] Anna Bochenek Romantic drama film
2005 Sperling[11] Alina Serkovic Crime film

Video games

YearTitleRoleNotes
2014 Wolfenstein: The New Order Anya Oliwa —
2017 Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus Anya Oliwa —
2019 Wolfenstein: Youngblood Anya Oliwa —

Discography

Albums

  • Klimat (2001)

Singles

  • "Dotknąć nieba" (with Piotr Cugowski (son of Krzysztof Cugowski)) (2007)
  • "Klimat" (2001)
  • "Ich verlier mich gern in Dir" (from the film Heart Over Head) (2001)
  • "Marzyć chcę" (1999)

References

  1. ↑ "Uczniowie i absolwenci". Theater, Music and Dance Studio stmit.pl (in Polish). 13 May 2009. Archived from the original on 28 July 2010. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
  2. ↑ "Alicja Bachleda-Curuś". film.wp.pl (in Polish). Wirtualna Polska Media S.A. 29 December 2010. Archived from the original on 18 September 2016. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
  3. ↑ Michaud, Sarah (30 October 2009). "Colin Farrell and Girlfriend Welcome a Son – Babies, Colin Farrell". People.com. Retrieved 9 May 2010.
  4. ↑ Alicja Bachleda; Borys Lankosz; Piotr Cyrwus; Krzysztof Górecki, Vis a vis (Short film), Panstwowa Wyzsza Szkola Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna (PWSFTviT) [State Higher School of Film, Television and Theater (PWSFTviT)], retrieved 15 October 2023
  5. ↑ Natacha Koutchoumov; Lionel Baier; Alicja Bachleda (5 December 2007), Comme des voleurs (à l'est) (Romantic comedy film), Saga-Productions, retrieved 15 October 2023
  6. ↑ Paul Kowalski; Kristof Konrad; Alicja Bachleda; Shaw Jones (1 November 2015), Breathe (Short, Drama, Thriller film), American Film Institute (AFI), retrieved 15 October 2023
  7. ↑ Alicja Bachleda; Kinga Lewinska; Dominika Kluzniak; Aleksandra Hamkalo (26 February 2016), 7 rzeczy, których nie wiecie o facetach [7 things you don't know about men] (Comedy film) (in Polish), MTL Maxfilm, retrieved 15 October 2023
  8. ↑ Vega, Patryk; Alicja Bachleda; Magdalena Cielecka; Anna Dereszowska (20 January 2017), Pitbull. Niebezpieczne kobiety (Action, Crime, Drama film), retrieved 15 October 2023
  9. ↑ Michal Lesien; Agnieszka Michalska; Olga Borys (6 February 2000), Lokatorzy (Comedy film), retrieved 15 October 2023
  10. ↑ Piotr Garlicki; Malgorzata Foremniak; Artur Zmijewski (7 November 1999), Na dobre i na zle (Drama, Romance), Artrama, Telewizja Polska (TVP) [Artrama, Polish Television (TVP)], retrieved 15 October 2023
  11. ↑ Alina Serkovic; Dieter Pfaff; Hans-Joachim Grubel; Anna Böttcher (2 March 1996), Sperling (Crime), Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) [Second German Television (ZDF)], retrieved 15 October 2023
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