Jowita Budnik

Jowita Budnik

Born: November 28, 1973
in Warsaw, Poland
Jowita Budnik (née Miondlikowska; born 28 November 1973) is a Polish actress. Budnik was born in Warsaw and studied at the University of Warsaw. She made her film debut in 1985 at the age of 11 in Radosław Piwowarski's Kochankowie mojej mamy ("My Mom's Lovers"). She has appeared in such films as Papusza, Plac Zbawiciela and Jeziorak as well as the television series M jak miłość and W labiryncie. In 2017, she received Best Actress Award at the Chicago International Film Festival for her role in the film Birds Are Singing in Kigali (2017).

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Sucker's Death
Title: Sucker's Death
Character: Dawid's mother
Released: April 13, 2024
Type: Movie
A small town somewhere in Poland. "Małolat", a member of a nationalist militia, is blackmailed into planting a bomb at an LGBT rally in Warsaw. However, he does not know that his gay brother will be at the demonstration. The mother of both characters will get involved in the whole situation. The young man faces a dramatic choice.
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Title: Grzechy sąsiadów
Character: Liliana Głowińska
Released: December 15, 2023
Type: TV
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Be Somebody
Title: Be Somebody
Character: Sylwia
Released: May 31, 2023
Type: Movie
Together with his family, Wiktor moves into a recently bought flat, which turns out to have belonged to Lech Wałęsa, a symbol of freedom and a legend as a simple electrician who became Poland’s president many years ago.
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Mother's Day
Title: Mother's Day
Character: Diplomat
Released: May 24, 2023
Type: Movie
Nina, a former NATO special operations agent living in hiding, has to use all her deadly skills to rescue her son who has been kidnapped by ruthless gangsters. Finding Max is a double opportunity for her. A chance to feel the adrenaline rush again, and an opportunity to get back into the life of the son she had to abandon years ago.
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Title: #BringBackAlice
Released: April 14, 2023
Type: TV
After missing social media influencer Alicja Stec returns with no memory of the past year, the drug-dealing brother of another missing teen sets out to prove the cases are connected… and unravel the truth behind his sister’s disappearance.
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All Our Fears
Title: All Our Fears
Character: Jadwiga Majewska / Jagoda's mother
Released: November 24, 2022
Type: Movie
Daniel is respected by his village community as long as he bravely supports the fight for their affairs. He is in love with the boy next door, Olek, who is not ready to reveal his sexual identity. Their relationship develops in secret. When a teenage friend can no longer take homophobic attacks and commits a suicide, Daniel tries to convince the villagers to organise a service of the Stations of the Cross together for the intention of the victim.
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Young Eagles
Title: Young Eagles
Character: Rotmanowa
Released: September 9, 2022
Type: Movie
Grodno, the eastern border of pre-war Poland. On September 1, 1939, German planes bomb the city. One of the bombs hits the school of Leoś, Ewelina and Tadek. Literally and symbolically, the world of a carefree childhood, fun and first crushes ends.
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For Love
Title: For Love
Character: Marlena Kobara
Released: June 10, 2022
Type: Movie
Marlena struggles with a serious marital crisis due to the alcohol addiction of her husband, Zbigniew. Via the Internet she meets Bruno, a Senegalese, who brings back Marlena’s self-confidence and sense of womanhood. However, it turns out that the man plans something rather different for her than building a relationship with her…
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The Passage
Title: The Passage
Character: Różyłłowa
Released: September 21, 2021
Type: Movie
A storm causes damage to a bridge that connects the world of the living with the world of the dead. For this reason, the information about Maria’s own death reaches her with delay.
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Songs About Love
Title: Songs About Love
Character: mama Alicji
Released: September 20, 2021
Type: Movie
Robert, a young musician living in the shadow of his successful father, rebels against his father’s authority. On meeting a novice small-town vocalist, he is confronted with the nature of his inner struggle. In the face of a conflict between feeling and ambition, their joint musical project is left hanging in the air.
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Songs About Love
Title: Songs About Love
Character: Alicja's mother
Released: September 20, 2021
Type: Movie
Robert, a young musician living in the shadow of his successful father, rebels against his father’s authority. On meeting a novice small-town vocalist, he is confronted with the nature of his inner struggle. In the face of a conflict between feeling and ambition, their joint musical project is left hanging in the air.
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In for a Murder
Title: In for a Murder
Character: Ilona Czerwińska
Released: June 18, 2021
Type: Movie
A stay-at-home mom and avid reader of crime stories discovers the deepest secrets of a small town's residents while investigating a woman's murder.
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In for a Murder
Title: In for a Murder
Released: June 18, 2021
Type: Movie
A stay-at-home mom and avid reader of crime stories discovers the deepest secrets of a small town's residents while investigating a woman's murder.
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Brothers
Title: Brothers
Character: Małkowa
Released: May 5, 2021
Type: Movie
A village in Mazowsze, 1943. Two teenage boys, Janek and Staszek, find two young Jews hiding on a farm. They soon realize that the boys, Abram and Chaim, are their age and are the sons of a respected pharmacist who lived in a nearby town before the war. They were the only survivors of the anti-Jewish pogrom led by the Germans in the nearby forest. In spite of the deadly threat, Janek and Staszek decide to hide the boys and keep it a secret.
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Icarus. The Legend of Mietek Kosz
Title: Icarus. The Legend of Mietek Kosz
Character: matka Mietka
Released: December 4, 2020
Type: Movie
Inspired by true events, a story of a blind grand piano genius. As a child Mietek loses his sight. His mother places him in the care of the nuns in Laski. At the centre for the blind the boy discovers that music may be his way of seeing the world again and of describing it. Mietek goes on to become a brilliant classical pianist. Once he discovers jazz music, though, he has only one goal left: to become the best jazz pianist in Poland. He is more and more successful, not only in Poland but around the world. He wins the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival. Unexpectedly, a charismatic vocalist, Zuza, walks into his life. This meeting will change it forever.
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Playing Hard
Title: Playing Hard
Character: Matka dziewczynki
Released: January 4, 2019
Type: Movie
Stories of three women struggling with alcohol. Dorota is a great prosecutor. Using her immunity, she tries to avoid responsibility for her offenses committed under the influence of alcohol. Her husband, a famous politician, helps her keep the problem secret and rescues her from many troubles but he slowly loses patience. A respected children surgeon Teresa has lost her family due to drinking problem, all she is left with is her job at the hospital where she is the main doctor. The situation goes out of control when the woman comes drunk to the hospital. A student, Magda, likes to party hard and because she is a good student and has a great job, no-one opposes that. At one moment, the girl loses control. A tragedy happens.
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Title: 1983
Character: Joanna Marcinkiewicz, żona Tobiasza
Released: November 30, 2018
Type: TV
Twenty years after a devastating terrorist attack in 1983 that halted the course of Poland's liberation and the subsequent downfall of the Soviet Union, an idealistic law student Kajetan and a disgraced police investigator Anatol stumble upon a conspiracy that has kept the Iron Curtain standing and Poland living under a repressive police state.
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Who Will Write Our History?
Title: Who Will Write Our History?
Character: Rachela Auerbach
Released: July 21, 2018
Type: Movie
Documentary about a group of Jews, who collected and hid a lot of stories and documents about everyday jewish life in the Warsaw Getto.
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Silent Night
Title: Silent Night
Character: Ciotka Basia
Released: November 24, 2017
Type: Movie
Adam unexpectedly visits his family house at Christmas after a few years of working abroad. No family member knows about his secret plans and the real reasons of his visit.
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Birds Are Singing in Kigali
Title: Birds Are Singing in Kigali
Character: Anna Keller
Released: September 22, 2017
Type: Movie
We meet ornithologist Anna in 1994 just as genocide is raging in Rwanda, perpetrated by the majority Hutus against the Tutsis. Anna manages to save the daughter of a colleague whose family has been murdered, and she takes her to Poland. But the woman returns to Rwanda to visit the graves of her loved ones. The director originally worked on the movie with her husband Krzysztof Krauze (My Nikifor – Crystal Globe, KVIFF 2005), but after his death in 2014 she eventually finished this challenging picture alone.
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Title: The Chairman's Ear
Character: Katarzyna from Modern
Released: January 9, 2017
Type: TV
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Call Me Marianna
Title: Call Me Marianna
Released: June 2, 2015
Type: Movie
Her ex-wife won’t meet her. Her daughter rejects her. Her mother still calls her “son.” As Marianna transitions from male to female, she is abandoned by her loved ones, alone in a world unwilling to accept her true self. This multi-award-winning documentary is an intensely sympathetic and powerful account of one individual’s struggle to gain acceptance—even in the midst of profound physical hardship.
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Jeziorak
Title: Jeziorak
Character: Podkomisarz Iza Dereń
Released: October 17, 2014
Type: Movie
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The Word
Title: The Word
Character: Majchertowa, matka Janka
Released: March 14, 2014
Type: Movie
Days before the end of the school year, Liliana gives Janek an ultimatum, giving him 24 hours to either prove his love for her or forget about her altogether.
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Sophie Seeks 7
Title: Sophie Seeks 7
Character: Pielęgniarka
Released: February 14, 2014
Type: Movie
After breaking up with her cheating boyfriend, a 30-year-old woman reconnects with six of her exes while trying to find the love of her life.
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Doll
Title: Doll
Character: Bronisłava 'Papusza' Wajsová
Released: November 15, 2013
Type: Movie
The rise and fall of the most distinguished Polish-Gypsy poetess Bronislawa Wajs, widely known as Papusza, and her relationship with her discoverer, writer Jerzy Ficowski.
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Title: Komisarz Alex
Character: Maks's mother
Released: March 3, 2012
Type: TV
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Glasgow
Title: Glasgow
Character: Nurse
Released: November 1, 2011
Type: Movie
Damian, a young boy raised by a single mother, believes that his father is a famous footballer playing for Glasgow Celtic F.C. His dream is to visit him. In his everyday life he has difficulty finding a common language with his mother who is trying to make a new life for herself with a younger man.
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Title: Into Deep Water
Character: Marlena Turska
Released: June 14, 2011
Type: TV
A group of social welfare workers led by their new director tries to provide necessary aid to people struggling with various problems.
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7 Minutes
Title: 7 Minutes
Character: Laboratory Worker
Released: October 18, 2010
Type: Movie
Seven minutes - sweet moment that can change lives forever. History of several autumn, although extremely hot days in the life of Piotr Winkler, who in an unexpected way loses control over his stable and secure life. 37-year-old designer, happy husband of Marta and Agnieszka's father, goes to conference as a substitute for a colleague. There he meets an attractive brunette, which will soon topple the peaceful, happy world upside down.
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Never Say Never
Title: Never Say Never
Released: November 6, 2009
Type: Movie
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Strike
Title: Strike
Released: February 23, 2007
Type: Movie
A nearly illiterate woman becomes one of the founders of Poland's Solidarity union.
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Retrieval
Title: Retrieval
Character: Gazda's Wife (as Jowita Miondlikowska)
Released: November 17, 2006
Type: Movie
19 year old Wojtek lives in a poverty stricken Polish town. He is in love with an older woman, an illegal emigrant from Ukraine. He boxes in illegal matches to get money and is spotted by a man running a security business. Accepting this man's offer means becoming a gangster, but this could allow him to a residence permit for his girlfriend Katya.
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Saviour Square
Title: Saviour Square
Character: Beata Zielińska
Released: September 7, 2006
Type: Movie
A story of a married couple with two children, whose housing problems, the man's infidelity and the woman's fragility lead the family to destruction.
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My Nikifor
Title: My Nikifor
Character: Cleaning Lady Kowalska
Released: July 29, 2004
Type: Movie
From his birth in 1895 through his death in 1968, the gifted Polish naïve artist Nikifor Krynicki (AKA Epifan Drowniak) lived his life and eked out a career cloaked in obscurity - a casualty of both his extreme speech impediment (his tongue was attached to the roof of his mouth, which prompted others to errantly tag him as mentally incapacitated) and his self-effacing decision to sell the majority of his work for meager amounts. Krzysztof Krauze's biopic My Nikifor travels to the tail end of Krynicki's (Krystyna Feldman) life journey, dramatizing the period that surrounded his interaction with the well-established artist Marian Wlosinski (Roman Gancarczyk).
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Portret podwójny
Title: Portret podwójny
Character: Asystentka na castingu
Released: November 9, 2001
Type: Movie
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The Debt
Title: The Debt
Character: dziewczyna z pralni (w napisach: Jowita Miondlikowska)
Released: November 19, 1999
Type: Movie
Based on true events, the movie tells the story of two men who want to start a scooter business but don't have the required collateral for a bank loan. Then one of them runs into a former flat neighbour who offers to lend them the money. The guy turns out to be a thug and starts to extort them. Their life goes downhill from there.
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East Wind
Title: East Wind
Character: Liza
Released: January 20, 1993
Type: Movie
The true story of General Smyslovsky and the anti-Communist 1st Russian National Army receiving shelter in Liechtenstein in 1945 and successfully resisting Soviet pressure to be returned for execution in the USSR.
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Po upadku
Title: Po upadku
Character: córka Ratajczaków
Released: December 7, 1990
Type: Movie
A story of high-ranking party members from the 1970s embroiled in political deception.
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Lany poniedziałek
Title: Lany poniedziałek
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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Masters of the Planet
Title: Masters of the Planet
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
On a sunny summer morning, a day before the wedding, the groom's parents visit the bride's parents. They all quickly discover that it is not their spouses who are their soul mates. As a result of the meeting, the couples reshuffle and two new relationships are formed. They start to drift away from each other, especially after their children's text message saying that the wedding is called off, as the bride and groom got in an argument and broke up. One of the couples starts behaving as if it took over the bride and groom's place. They practice their dance, taste wedding dishes, and finally, begin to interfere with the wedding decoration. The other couple tries to restore everything to its original state, to eventually respond with aggression, giving rise to a rapidly escalating conflict.
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Title: Proliferka
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV