Jan Frycz (born 15 May 1954) is a

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screen and stage actor. He was nominated for six Polish Academy Awards, winning twice for his supporting roles in the films ''

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'' (2003) and ''

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'' (2004).

Biography

Frycz's father was a mining engineer and disliked his interest in acting; he argued that a boy should have a more stable job. Despite his father's wishes, Frycz pursued acting and graduated from the '' AST National Academy of Theatre Arts'' in Kraków in 1978. He made his theatre debut in the same year in the

Juliusz Słowacki Theatre Juliusz Słowacki Theatre ( pl, Teatr im. Juliusza Słowackiego w Krakowie) is a 19th-century Eclectic theatre-opera house in the heart of Kraków, Poland, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Erected in 1893, it was modeled after some of the best ...

where he continued performing in the years 1978-82 and 1984-89. He spent two years in 1982-84 working in Warsaw at the National Theatre and the Polish Theatre, before returning to Kraków where he continued working at the Juliusz Słowacki Theatre, and from 1989 till 2006 at the

National Stary Theatre The Helena Modrzejewska National Stary Theater in Kraków (Polish: ''Narodowy Stary Teatr im. Heleny Modrzejewskiej'') is one of the oldest public stages in Poland and a national institution of culture, first opened in 1781. It was named after re ...

. He made his screen debut in Norwegian film ''Dagny'' in 1976. In the second half of the 1970s and 1980s, he focused mainly on his theatre work, playing only a few, mostly episodic roles. Since 2006, he is an actor of the National Theatre in Warsaw. Frycz is married to his third wife and has a daughter from the first marriage and four children from the second marriage. His daughters Gabriela and Olga are actresses.

Awards

* 2005 – Silver Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis * 2005 –

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* 2015 – Silver Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis

Selected filmography

References

External links

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