Dorota Segda (born 12 February 1966) in

Kraków Kraków (), or Cracow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city dates back to the seventh century. Kraków was the official capital of Poland until 1596 ...

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, is a Polish

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and

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. Besides acting, she is also a

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of Theatre Arts, and the Rector since 2016, at the

AST National Academy of Theatre Arts in Kraków AST National Academy of Theatre Arts (Polish: ''Akademia Sztuk Teatralnych w Krakowie'', often shortened to AST), is a drama school based in Kraków and Wrocław, Poland. It was founded in 1946 by actor Juliusz Osterwa, who took the initial steps ...

. In 2015, she was awarded Poland's Silver

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. Segda graduated from the Jan III Sobieski High School and the

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, both in Kraków. She has been an actress of Kraków's Old Theatre, the Helena Modrzejewska National Stary Theater, since 1987. Her theatrical career at the Stary Theater includes Albertine's role in the ''Operetka'' by

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(1988),

Salome Salome (; he, שְלוֹמִית, Shlomit, related to , "peace"; el, Σαλώμη), also known as Salome III, was a Jewish princess, the daughter of Herod II, son of Herod the Great, and princess Herodias, granddaughter of Herod the Great, an ...

in ''Sen srebrny Salomei'' (1993), and Marguerite in '' Faust'' by

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(1997). She twice won the Zelwerowicz Award for best actress or actor awarded by the editors of the Polish theatre magazine, ''Teatr'', first in the 1992/1993 season, for the role of Salome, and then in the 1996/1997 season, for the role of Margaret in Faust. Between 1997 and 2000, she also worked at the

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and played Rachela in Stanisław Wyspiański's ''Wesele'' (2000). To date, she has performed over fifty roles on the theatre stage. Segda's film and television roles include her debut film role as the identical twins in Ildikó Enyedi's ''

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'' (Hungarian: ''Az én XX. századom'' 1989), the title role in the film '' Faustina'' (Polish: ''Faustyna'' 1995) as well as roles in the film, ''Tato'' (1995) and the television show, '' Na dobre i na złe'' (''For Better And For Worse'' 1999–present). In the Polish dub of the films ''

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'' (2007) and '' Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'' (2009), Segda voiced the character of Bellatrix Lestrange, played by Helena Bonham Carter. Since 2010, she has mostly worked on television, such as in the long running series, ''Dziewczyny ze Lwowa'' (2015-2019) and ''Echo serca'' (2019–present). In 2012 Segda was made a Member of the Polish Film Academy.http://www.filmpolski.pl/fp/index.php?osoba=1114605 Polish Filmography Segda is the granddaughter of

Władysław Segda Władysław Hipolit Segda (23 May 1895 – 1994) was a Polish fencer and military officer. He won a bronze medal in the team sabre event at the 1928 and 1932 Summer Olympics. Segda served in the Austrian Army during World War I. Since 191 ...

, double Olympic bronze medallist in

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. Since 2001, she has been married to the Polish composer, Stanisław Radwan.

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