Maja Ostaszewska

Maja Ostaszewska

Born: September 3, 1972
in Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland
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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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Colors of Evil: Red
Title: Colors of Evil: Red
Character: Helena Bogucka
Released: May 29, 2024
Type: Movie
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Green Border
Title: Green Border
Character: Julia
Released: September 22, 2023
Type: Movie
In the treacherous and swampy forests that make up the so called “green border” between Belarus and Poland, refugees from the Middle East and Africa trying to reach the European Union are trapped in a geopolitical crisis cynically engineered by Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko. In an attempt to provoke Europe, refugees are lured to the border by propaganda promising easy passage to the EU. Pawns in this hidden war, the lives of Julia, a newly minted activist who has given up her comfortable life, Jan, a young border guard, and a Syrian family intertwine.
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The In-Laws 2
Title: The In-Laws 2
Character: Małgorzata
Released: September 15, 2023
Type: Movie
Weronika and Łukasz – a would-be bride and groom from the first film – decide to give themselves a second chance and invite their family to the wedding and the reception, which will take place in a seaside town. Among the invited guests, the viewers will recognise well-known characters, including: Wanda and Tadeusz with their dog, Mirelka, and also a divorcee, Małgorzata, accompanied by… her much younger partner, Jan , and her mother. The sea, drinks and nude sunbathers make the family members of the bride and groom more open and ready to shed their masks.
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Shielding the Flame
Title: Shielding the Flame
Character: Hanna Krall (voice)
Released: April 19, 2023
Type: Movie
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Broad Peak
Title: Broad Peak
Character: Ewa Dyakowska-Berbeka
Released: September 9, 2022
Type: Movie
After climbing Broad Peak mountain, Maciej Berbeka learns his journey to the summit is incomplete. 25 years later, he sets out to finish what he started.
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Title: The Office PL
Character: activist Arleta
Released: October 22, 2021
Type: TV
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The In-Laws
Title: The In-Laws
Character: Małgorzata Wilk
Released: September 10, 2021
Type: Movie
Is a party after a canceled wedding a recipe for disaster? It is. And what a disaster it is! Two families differ in everything - origin, status, wallet content, taste. The parents of the groom and bride are initially shocked. What did such a thing happen? Who was at fault? What about the wedding party? Should they welcome the guests? Play music? Pour the vodka? Who will cut the cake? From word to word, polite smiles turn into public washing of dirt. And finally a real bomb goes off... And in the meantime, the wedding party turns into a wild party. And no one is bothered by the absence of the newlyweds.
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Title: Klangor
Character: Magda Wejman
Released: March 26, 2021
Type: TV
A desperate father looks for his missing daughter.
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Never Gonna Snow Again
Title: Never Gonna Snow Again
Character: Maria
Released: March 18, 2021
Type: Movie
Zenia is an industrious Ukrainian migrant worker in Poland who makes house calls as a masseur to the needy and aspirational residents of a middle-class gated community near Warsaw. He is privy to all of their problems, anxieties and secrets – and something of an unwitting guru figure. Zenia’s grounded spirituality, apparent healing powers and broad shoulders make him an object of lust for many of the lost souls in the community.
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Kill It and Leave This Town
Title: Kill It and Leave This Town
Character: Janek (voice)
Released: March 2, 2021
Type: Movie
Fleeing from despair after losing those dearest to him, the hero hides in a safe land of memories, where time stands still and all those dear to him are alive.
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Magnesium
Title: Magnesium
Character: Róża Lewenfisz
Released: October 2, 2020
Type: Movie
A western, inspired by the likes of Tarantino and Leone, set in the 1920s in the borderland between Poland and the USSR: Twin brothers plan to rob a rival Mafia style family, an instance of female empowerment in that it is run by sisters.
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Nightwalk
Title: Nightwalk
Character: Girl's Mother
Released: February 11, 2020
Type: Movie
It is night in Warsaw. Two very different homes. In one, a father watches sports lying on the sofa, expecting the son to do the same. In another apartment, a wealthy-looking mother sits at the table to dine with her daughter, completely different from her. At the same time, the boy and the girl embark on a nocturnal adventure of transformation, during which they strip off the various stratifications of gender that they have inherited. The streets of the city are transformed into a liberating walkway. When by chance they meet – face to face, body to body – they mirror each other in silence, offering comfort, safety.
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(Nie)znajomi
Title: (Nie)znajomi
Character: Anna
Released: September 27, 2019
Type: Movie
A group of seven friends come together for dinner. What starts out as a normal evening, evolves into something else when they decide to play a game and read all text messages aloud and answer all phone calls on speakerphone...
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I Am Lying Now
Title: I Am Lying Now
Character: Celia
Released: June 28, 2019
Type: Movie
Metaphysical thriller, which takes place in a retro-futuristic world. His characters get caught up in an intricate, dark intrigue in which nothing is as it seems, and a series of dramatic events leads to a completely surprising final.
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7 Emotions
Title: 7 Emotions
Character: Mama Adasia i Mikiego
Released: October 12, 2018
Type: Movie
Fear, anger, sadness, joy, disgust, envy, shame. Adaś Miauczyński goes back to his childhood days when, like most of us, he used to find it problematic to name the emotions that accompanied him. To improve the quality of his adult life, he decides to return to that time – which proves not so carefree after all – to learn how to experience the seven basic emotions. This extremely unpredictable journey into the past features an abundance of hilarious, even comical, situations but is also filled with lots of touching moments and food for thought.
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Title: Diagnosis
Character: Anna Nowak
Released: September 5, 2017
Type: TV
Sometimes, a single unexpected event can irreversibly alter one's life. What would happen, if one day you were to wake up and discover, that you don't know who you are, who you love or care about? Is fate cruel enough to take everything, including your identity and memories? How can you piece together your new life, when you're missing the building elements of who you are?
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Pitbull: Tough Women
Title: Pitbull: Tough Women
Character: Olka
Released: November 11, 2016
Type: Movie
Two new female police officers struggle to survive a force filled with corrupt superiors and the brutal world of the criminal mafia.
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Title: Second chance
Character: Lidia Rak
Released: February 15, 2016
Type: TV
The main character is Monika Borecka, TV producer and manager. She is a modern woman of success - strong, attractive, hard-working and self-confident. Seemingly, she's leading a perfect life: she's on the peak of her career, makes money, and has a handsome partner. She loves living in a big city, she is always updated with news. Monika is ambitious and creative. In the world of show-business, she feels like a duck in water. She's going to celebrate her 40th birthday with beloved ones. Suddenly...she loses everything. Without job, friends, rejected by the world of show-biz which was her entire world. Arrested and convicted to social services in hospital. Monika, for the first time in her life is left on the own. Betrayed, humiliated, disillusioned and without hope. Monika faces many problems to find the answer for a question: what is the most important thing in life? Is she able to struggle with hardships of life? How to use a second chance, which is given us by lock to find our true destiny? The series also shows scenes of show business and reveals to the audience the mechanisms governing the world.
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Pitbull: New Orders
Title: Pitbull: New Orders
Character: Olka
Released: January 22, 2016
Type: Movie
Policemen from two precincts are joining forces to fight the Mokotowska Group.
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Damaged
Title: Damaged
Character: Melania Dulska
Released: October 2, 2015
Type: Movie
Rainer Dulsky, a professor of psychiatry from Switzerland, comes to Melania, the granddaughter of Mrs. Dulska. He feels he’s got something in common with the tenement house in which the Dulski family live... Melania, a film director, intrigued by her family history joins Rainer in his research. Their discoveries will take them back to the past full of secrets that were meant to stay hidden forever. The Dulski family have much on their conscience...
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Rybka Canero
Title: Rybka Canero
Character: nadkomisarz Kaja Zaremba
Released: September 7, 2015
Type: Movie
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Body
Title: Body
Character: Terapeutka Anna
Released: January 20, 2015
Type: Movie
A busy attorney, worried that his anorexic daughter Olga, who is still grieving her recently deceased mother, might try to harm herself, sends her to see a psychiatrist who's dealing with her own loss in an unusual way.
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A Grain of Truth
Title: A Grain of Truth
Character: Weronika Szacka (głos)
Released: January 9, 2015
Type: Movie
A big shot prosecutor Teodor Szacki divorces his wife and leaves Warsaw to “start a new life” in picturesque town in south­east Poland ­ Sandomierz. After a short while he is called in to investigate a strange and mysterious murder case. Alienated in provincial reality he struggles to find a killer, when he stumbles upon more victims. While the investigation continues he realizes that all murders are connected to alleged historical Jewish ritual killings. Those murders prompt a wave of anti­Semitic hysteria in the town. In his investigation Szacki must wrestle with the painful tangle of Polish­Jewish relations and real findings of his work ­ that roots of some legends arefantasy, not a grain of truth…
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Jack Strong
Title: Jack Strong
Character: Hania
Released: February 7, 2014
Type: Movie
Poland, 1970. Firmly determined to fight against Soviet tyranny and prevent the destruction of the world, the high-ranking officer of the Polish army Ryszard Kukliński makes a serious decision that will put his life, his family and the fate of an entire nation at risk.
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Dom na końcu drogi
Title: Dom na końcu drogi
Character: Marta
Released: September 10, 2013
Type: Movie
A lonely woman is walking a path in the woods. Soon she arrives at a house where she is warmly welcomed. The woman observes that her arrival caused a storm in family's life.
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In the Name of...
Title: In the Name of...
Character: Ewa
Released: September 6, 2013
Type: Movie
The contemporary story of a priest who launches a centre for troubled youth in a small parish. He is a good priest and is well-liked by his congregation, which remains unaware of his complicated past.
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Entanglement
Title: Entanglement
Character: Prokurator Agata Szacka
Released: June 3, 2011
Type: Movie
A member of a therapy group is found dead. A prosecutor and a police officer try to solve the mystery of his death.
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Title: Recipe for Life
Character: Beata Darmieta
Released: March 6, 2011
Type: TV
Przepis na życie is a Polish Comedy drama television series produced by Akson Studio for the TVN network. The series was created and written by Polish actress Agnieszka Pilaszewska. The main character is a middle-aged woman whose life changes when her husband leaves her and she loses her job. The only activity that can make her feel better is cooking. This is her passion. The storyline follows her fate, as well as her daughter's and ex-husband's who is now with another woman.
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Title: Recipe for Life
Character: Beata Darmięta
Released: March 6, 2011
Type: TV
Przepis na życie is a Polish Comedy drama television series produced by Akson Studio for the TVN network. The series was created and written by Polish actress Agnieszka Pilaszewska. The main character is a middle-aged woman whose life changes when her husband leaves her and she loses her job. The only activity that can make her feel better is cooking. This is her passion. The storyline follows her fate, as well as her daughter's and ex-husband's who is now with another woman.
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The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
Title: The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
Character: Jadwiga
Released: April 19, 2009
Type: Movie
Irena Sendler is a Catholic social worker who has sympathized with the Jews since her childhood, when her physician father died of typhus contracted while treating poor Jewish patients. When she initially proposes saving Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto, her idea is met with skepticism by fellow workers, her parish priest, and even her own mother Janina.
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Title: Days of Honor
Character: Wanda Ryszkowska
Released: September 7, 2008
Type: TV
Days of honor is a Polish World War II television drama series, broadcast on TVP2 since September 7, 2008.
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Katyn
Title: Katyn
Character: Anna
Released: September 21, 2007
Type: Movie
On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the Soviet Red Army crosses the border. The Polish army, unable to fight on two fronts, is defeated. Thousands of Polish men, both military and government officials, are captured by the invaders. Their fate will only be known several years later.
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Solidarność, Solidarność...
Title: Solidarność, Solidarność...
Character: Adult Maja
Released: August 31, 2005
Type: Movie
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Changes
Title: Changes
Character: Marta Mycinska
Released: October 10, 2003
Type: Movie
Adrian plans to marry Wanda and, with that intention, visits his fiancee's family house by the lake. Tensions rise when he is faced not only with Wanda's sisters but also with their mother's expectations.
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The Pianist
Title: The Pianist
Character: Woman with Child
Released: September 17, 2002
Type: Movie
The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.
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Title: Removals
Released: September 2, 2001
Type: TV
The series follows the story of the Szczygłów family's removal firm, starting from New Year's Eve 1899. It seems that every time they do a removal, an object gets lost. Each episode is centred around this object. The series was intended to follow the Szczygłów family right up to the year 2000. Series 1 gets as far as 1941.
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Egoiści
Title: Egoiści
Character: Klientka w agencji reklamowej
Released: November 20, 2000
Type: Movie
A look at the 1990s generation of cynical and selfish young Varsovians who managed to achieve financial success. But at what cost?
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Prymas - trzy lata z tysiąca
Title: Prymas - trzy lata z tysiąca
Character: Siostra Leonia
Released: September 22, 2000
Type: Movie
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I'm Looking at You, Mary
Title: I'm Looking at You, Mary
Character: Marysia Orzechowska
Released: May 30, 2000
Type: Movie
Two young people share their lives and homes for two years.
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Przystań
Title: Przystań
Character: Karolina Dobrzyńska
Released: November 30, 1997
Type: Movie
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Schindler's List
Title: Schindler's List
Character: Frantic Woman
Released: December 15, 1993
Type: Movie
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
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Title: Project UFO
Character: Wera
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV