Maja Ostaszewska
Biography
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Maja Ostaszewska (born September 3, 1972) is a Polish actress.
She was born in Kraków, the daughter of Polish musician Jacek Ostaszewski. She started her acting training in her native Kraków and later graduated from PWST, in 1996. She has since acted mostly on Teatr Rozmaitości in Warsaw, working with well-known Polish directors such as Krystian Lupa, Krzysztof Warlikowski and Grzegorz Jarzyna.
In 1993, during her acting training, she played a small role in Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List. Although her actual real film debut was in 1997, with the TV movie Przystań. For this role, she received the Best Actress Award at the Polish Film Festival held in Gdynia in 1998.
Ostaszewska recently played one of the main characters in Academy Award nominated Andrzej Wajda's Katyń.
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Frequent co-stars
Career timeline
Full filmography
- Schindler's List (1993) as Frantic Woman
- Proud (2026) as Neighbor
- The Pianist (2002) as Woman with Child
- Colors of Evil: Red (2024) as Helena Bogucka
- The Office PL (2021) as Arleta Mosór
- Days of Honor (2008) as Wanda Ryszkowska
- Diagnosis (2017) as Anna Nowak
- Second chance (2016) as Lidia Rak
- Klangor (2021) as Magda Wejman
- Recipe for Life (2011) as Beata Darmięta
- Project UFO (2025) as Wera Wierusz
- Katyn (2007) as Anna
- The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler (2009) as Jadwiga
- Chopin, a Sonata in Paris (2025) as Justyna Krzyżanowska
- Removals (2001)
- Jack Strong (2014) as Hania
- Pitbull: Tough Women (2016) as Olka
- 7 Emotions (2018) as Mama Adasia i Mikiego
- Green Border (2023) as Julia
- Entanglement (2011) as Prokurator Agata Szacka
- The In-Laws (2021) as Małgorzata Wilk
- Where Eskimos Live (2002)
- Broad Peak (2022) as Ewa Dyakowska-Berbeka
- Never Gonna Snow Again (2021) as Maria