Maja Ostaszewska

Maja Ostaszewska ( born September 3, 1972 in Kraków ) is a Polish actress.

Maja Ostaszewska is the daughter of musician Jacek Ostaszewski. She graduated in 1996 her acting training at the State Drama School PWST Krakow. Since the completion of her studies, she works primarily in the Warsaw Teatr Rozmaitości, where she collaborates with the directors Krystian Lupa, Krzysztof Warlikowski and Grzegorz Jarzyna.

During her acting training in 1993, she played a small role in Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List. Your actual film debut was in 1997 with the TV movie Przystan. For this role, she received equal the price of the best actress at the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia 1998. This success could be repeated on the life of Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski in 2000 with the role of Leonia nun on the side of Andrzej Seweryn and Zbigniew Zamachowski in Teresa Kotlarczyks film Prymas. In addition to cinema and theater work, she also acts in television series. Since 11 August 2007 she is the mother of a son. In 2007, she played the female lead role in Andrzej Wajda's oscar nominated film Katyn.