Małgorzata Dobrowolska (born 2 June 1958, in

Kamienna Góra Kamienna Góra (german: Landeshut, cs, Lanžhot or Kamenná Hora, szl, Kamiynnŏ Gōra) is a town in south-western Poland with 19,010 inhabitants (2019). It is the seat of Kamienna Góra County, and also of the rural district called Gmina Kami ...

), is a Polish-born

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n actress.

Biography

She has one brother, Janusz Dobrowolski, who also made a minor appearance in the 1984 film, '' Silver City''. After moving to

in the 1980s, Dobrowolska's first Australian film was '' Silver City'', where she played a Polish immigrant.Stratton, pp. 49–53. Paul Cox specifically wrote the 1991 film ''

A Woman's Tale ''A Woman's Tale'' is a 1991 Australian film directed by Paul Cox and starring Sheila Florance, Gosia Dobrowolska, Norman Kaye, Chris Haywood, Max Gillies and Ernie Gray. Premise Martha (Florance) is an elderly woman living alone in her flat ...

'' for

Sheila Florance Sheila Mary Florance (24 July 1916 – 12 October 1991) was an Australian theatre, television and film actress. She was best known for her performance as elderly, alcoholic convict Lizzie Birdsworth in the television series ''Prisoner''. F ...

. Directed by Cox, Dobrowolska plays a nurse who befriends an elderly woman (Florance) dying of cancer.

Filmography

FILM TELEVISION STAGE/THEATRE * ''Hamlet'' (1986) * ''The Marriage'' (1986) * ''Tongue Of Stone'' (1995) * ''Promised Land: Tinsel And Ashes, Feast'' (1997)

Sources

* Stratton, D. (1990) ''The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry'', Pan MacMillan: Sydney.

References

External links

* 1958 births Australian film actresses Living people Polish emigrants to Australia Polish actresses {{Australia-film-actor-stub