Jadwiga Barańska (21 October 1935 – 24 October 2024) was a Polish actress and screenwriter. She was married to Polish director Jerzy Antczak. Together they had one child, Mikołaj Antczak, born in 1964. She began her career on the stages of the Classic Theatre in 1959–1966. She then played at the Polish Theatre in Warsaw until 1972. She achieved success as a film actress, appearing mainly in the films of her husband, Jerzy Antczak. She gained her greatest fame starring as Barbara Niechcic in the adaptation of the novel Nights and Days by Maria Dąbrowska and the title role in Countess Cosel. She was also an actress in the Teatr Telewizji, a Polish TV theatre. She lived in the US since 1979. Barańska died on 24 October 2024 in Los Angeles, at the age of 89.

Selected filmography

* ''Wraki'' (1956) as Irena * ''Powrót doktora Von Kniprode'' (1965) * '' Hrabina Cosel'' (1968) as Anna Constantia Hoym countess Cosel, Anna Constantia of Brockdorff * ''Epilog Norymberski'' (1970) as an

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victim * ''Kłopotliwy gość'' (1971) as a secretary * ''Noce i dnie'', Nights and Days (1975) as Barbara Niechcic * ''Trędowata'' (1976) as countess Idalia Elzonowska * ''Gniazdo wdów'' (''Nido de viudas'', 1977) as Carmen * ''Noce i dnie'', in English Nights and Days, (TV serial) (1977) as Barbara Niechcic * ''Dama kameliowa'' (1995) as a screenwriter * ''Chopin, Pragnienie miłości'', in English Chopin: Desire for Love (2002) as Justyna Chopin,

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's mother

Awards

She won the

Silver Bear for Best Actress The Silver Bear for Best Actress () was an award presented at the Berlin International Film Festival from 1956 to 2020. It was given to an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance and was chosen by the International Jury from the fil ...

for her role in '' Nights and Days'' at the 26th Berlin International Film Festival in 1976.

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