Krystyna Zachwatowicz

Krystyna Zachwatowicz ( born May 16, 1930 in Warsaw) is a Polish designer and actress. She is the wife of director Andrzej Wajda and daughter of the architect Jan Zachwatowicz and Maria Zachwatowicz.

Krystyna Zachwatowicz first studied art history at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. This study she completed in 1952. She then joined a stage studies at the Art Academy Krakow, which she completed in 1958. The same year she made ​​her stage debut as a stage designer in Sosnowiec. Since the 1960s, she worked for the most important theater in Krakow, Poland, since the 1970s, almost exclusively for productions of her husband Andrzej Wajda. In 1958 she also began her acting career on the stage cabaret Piwnica pod Baranami in Krakow. Her first film appearance was in 1961 in Andrzej Wajda's Samson. In 1976 she returned to Man of Marble to the film set back as an actress. In 1979, she played also directed by Andrzej Wajda one of the lead roles in The Young Girls of Wilko. Since then, she regularly plays smaller roles in Wajda's films. For Wajda's films The Wedding, One Love in Germany and the revenge she also designed the costumes. She is a member of the Polish Film Academy and professor at the Art Academy of Krakow. She was awarded the Knight 's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta 1999.