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Urbaniak
Urbaniak is a Polish surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Dorota Urbaniak (born 1972), Polish Canadian rower * Hilde Urbaniak, German canoer * James Urbaniak (born 1963), American actor * Jarosław Urbaniak (born 1966), Polish politician * Lena Urbaniak (born 1992), German athlete * Michał Urbaniak (born 1943), Polish musician * Mika Urbaniak (born 1980), Polish singer, daughter of Michał * Urszula Urbaniak Urszula Urbaniak (born 27 December 1962) is a Polish filmmaker and television director. Urszula Urbaniak graduated in directing from the National Film School in Łódź (''PWSFTviT'') in 1991. She then went on to gain an M.A. in Directing at the ... (born 1962), Polish director {{surname Polish-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michał Urbaniak
Michał Urbaniak (born January 22, 1943) is a Polish jazz musician who plays violin, lyricon, and saxophone. His music includes elements of folk music, rhythm and blues, hip hop, and symphonic music. History He was born in Warsaw, Poland. Urbaniak started his music education during high school in Łódź, Poland, and continued from 1961 in Warsaw in the violin class of Tadeusz Wroński. Learning to play on the alto saxophone alone, he first played in a Dixieland band, and later with Zbigniew Namysłowski and the Jazz Rockers, with whom he performed during the Jazz Jamboree festival in 1961. After this, he was invited to play with Andrzej Trzaskowski, and toured the United States in 1962 with the Andrzej Trzaskowski band, the Wreckers, playing at festivals and clubs in Newport, San Francisco, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and New York City. After returning to Poland, he worked with Krzysztof Komeda's quintet (1962–1964). Together, they left for Scandinavia, where, after f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mika Urbaniak
Mika Urbaniak (born Michelle Urbaniak in 1980 in New York City) is an American pop singer. She is a daughter of prominent Polish jazz musicians Urszula Dudziak and Michał Urbaniak. Born and raised in the United States, she has lived in Warsaw and London since 2001. Her style is a mixture of pop, jazz and hip-hop. In 2010, she won the Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry award Fryderyk in the category ''Album of the Year - Pop''. History Mika Urbaniak started writing her own songs at the age of 11. When she was 14, she performed on stage for the first time. A year later, the first song with her vocals was released. For many years, she collaborated with major Polish artists, such as Smolik, Michał Urbaniak, Grzegorz Markowski, Mieczysław Szcześniak, Novika, O.S.T.R., Liroy and Kayah. Urbaniak's debut album ''Closer'' was released on 27 April 2009 through Sony Music Poland and peaked at no. 2 on the Polish sales chart OLiS. The album was promoted by singles "In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Urbaniak
James Christian Urbaniak (born September 17, 1963) is an American character actor. He is best known for his roles as Simon Grim in three Hal Hartley films: ''Henry Fool'' (1997), ''Fay Grim'' (2006) and ''Ned Rifle'' (2014), Robert Crumb in ''American Splendor'' (2003), Dr. Thaddeus "Rusty" Venture on the animated series ''The Venture Bros.'' (2003–2018), Grant Grunderschmidt on ''Review'' (2014–2017), and Arthur Tack on ''Difficult People'' (2015–2017). Personal life Urbaniak was born in Bayonne, New Jersey and lives in Los Angeles, California. He is of Polish descent. Career Urbaniak's first media appearance occurred in 1983, when at the age of 20, he went onstage from the audience of ''Late Night with David Letterman'', to try his hand at a monologue joke that Letterman had flubbed. One of his first noteworthy roles was in the avant-garde playwright/director Richard Foreman's ''The Universe'', for which Urbaniak won an Obie. He has also been acclaimed for his acting in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urszula Urbaniak
Urszula Urbaniak (born 27 December 1962) is a Polish filmmaker and television director. Urszula Urbaniak graduated in directing from the National Film School in Łódź (''PWSFTviT'') in 1991. She then went on to gain an M.A. in Directing at the National Film and Television School in the United Kingdom. She has directed shorts, documentaries and several dramas for Polish television. Those dramas include ''Nina'' (1994), '' Górski Hotel'' (from Václav Havel's play, 1995), '' Myra Gets Married'' (from F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1996) and ''Room 303'' (1997). In 1999, her film ''The Junction'' ('' Torowisko'') won several awards including First Film Special Distinction at the Montréal World Film Festival, the Jury Prize at the Sarajevo Film Festival and the Audience Award at the Torino International Festival of Young Cinema. She has since worked on several Polish TV productions [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jarosław Urbaniak
Jarosław Piotr Urbaniak (born 7 August 1966 in Ostrów Wielkopolski) is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 7,400 votes in 36 Kalisz districts as a candidate from the Civic Platform Civic Platform ( pl, Platforma Obywatelska, PO)The party is officially the Civic Platform of the Republic of Poland (''Platforma Obywatelska Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej''). is a political party in Poland. It is currently led by Donald Tusk. It ... list. See also * Members of Polish Sejm 2005-2007 External linksJarosław Urbaniak - parliamentary page- includes declarations of interest, voting record, and transcripts of speeches. Civic Platform politicians 1966 births Living people Members of the Polish Sejm 2005–2007 Members of the Polish Sejm 2007–2011 Members of the Polish Sejm 2015–2019 Members of the Polish Sejm 2019–2023 John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin alumni University of Warsaw alumni Recipients of the Silver Cross of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lena Urbaniak
Lena Urbaniak (born 31 October 1992 in Schwäbisch Gmünd) is a German athlete specialising in the shot put. She won the gold medal at the 2015 Summer Universiade. Her personal bests in the event are 18.02 metres outdoors (Kassel 2016) and 18.32 metres indoors (Karlsruhe 2016). In her youth she also competed in gymnastics Gymnastics is a type of sport that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, dedication and endurance. The movements involved in gymnastics contribute to the development of the arms, legs, s ..., handball and karate. Competition record References 1992 births Living people Sportspeople from Stuttgart (region) German female shot putters Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Germany Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) FISU World University Games gold medalists for Germany Medalists at the 2015 Summer Universiade Medalists at the 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorota Urbaniak
Dorota Urbaniak (born 6 May 1972 in Łask, Poland) is a Canadian rower. References * * 1972 births Living people Canadian female rowers People from Łask Rowers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Canada Olympic rowers for Canada Polish emigrants to Canada Olympic medalists in rowing {{Canada-Olympic-medalist-stub World Rowing Championships medalists for Canada Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Łódź Voivodeship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hilde Urbaniak
Hilde Urbaniak is a retired West German slalom canoeist who competed in the late 1950s. She won a gold medal in the folding K-1 event at the 1959 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Geneva Geneva ( ; french: Genève ) frp, Genèva ; german: link=no, Genf ; it, Ginevra ; rm, Genevra is the List of cities in Switzerland, second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous city of Romandy, the French-speaki .... ReferencesICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007. West German female canoeists Possibly living people Year of birth missing (living people) Medalists at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships {{Germany-canoe-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
