Joanna Kulig-Bochniak (born June 24, 1982) is a Polish actress and singer. Noted for performing in different languages, she has worked in film, television and radio as well as on stage. She is the recipient of a European Film Award and two Polish Film Awards, and her work has been recognised at various film festivals. In 2018, Polish magazine Wprost included her among the 50 most influential Poles for her contributions to the cinema of Poland. After an unsuccessful attempt at a career as a jazz singer, Kulig enrolled at the AST National Academy of Theatre Arts in Kraków, graduating in 2007. She began performing on stage while still in drama school, debuting in the play A Midsummer Night's Dream. Her first starring film role in the 2007 drama Wednesday, Thursday Morning won her the award for Best Debut at the Gdynia Film Festival. She received further acclaim for her performance in the 2011 film Elles, which earned her Best Supporting Actress at the Polish Film Awards and Gdynia Film Festival. Kulig was born on 24 June 1982 in Krynica, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland. Her mother worked as a cook at a local kindergarten and her father was a folk poet. She was raised in a musical family along with four siblings—two older brothers and two younger sisters—in Muszynka. One of her sisters, Justyna Schneider, is also an actress and adopted their great-grandmother's surname to avoid confusion as their first names are similar

Filmography

• 2026Fatherland — Singer in a jazz band
• Lead Children — Jolanta Wadowska-Król
• 2026Wild Wild East
• 2025Island — Joanna
• 2024Knox Goes Away — Annie
• Masters of the Air — Paulina
• 2024Woman of... — Iza
• 2023She Came to Me — Magdalena Szyskowski
• 2022Everyone Knows Better — Ania
• 2022Kompromat — Svetlana
• The Office PL — Michalina Biegun
• The Spider's Web — Kornelia Titko
• The Eddy — Maja
• Hanna — Johanna
• 2019I Am Lying Now — Agentka
• 2019Safe Inside — Sylvia
• 20187 Emotions — Mama Gosi
• 2018Clergy — Hanka Tomala
• 2018Cold War — Zuzanna 'Zula' Lichoń
• 2018Love Is Everything — Magda Rodzińska
• 2018Play — Mother
• The Trap — Justyna Mateja
• 2016Pitbull: Tough Women — 'Zuza'
• 2016The Innocents — Nun Irena
• 2015Disco Polo — Anka "Gensonina"
• 2015Warsaw by Night — Marek's Ex-Lover (segment "Iga")
• O mnie się nie martw — Iga Małecka
• 2014Sophie Seeks 7 — Patrycja
• The Crime — Posterunkowa Monika Krajewska
• 2013Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters — Red Haired Witch
• 2013Ida — Singer
• 2013Lasting — Marta, koleżanka Kariny
• On the Edge — Sylwia Zawada, żona Edwarda
• Spies of Warsaw
• 2013Way Back Home — Yalka
• 2011Dance Marathon — Agnieszka
• 2011Elles — Alicja
• 2011Los numeros — Sylwia, siostra Ani
• 2011Million Dollars — Zuzanna
• 2011Remembrance — Magdalena Limonowska
• 2011The Woman in the Fifth — Ania
• Szpilki na Giewoncie — Wika Bura
• 2009Janosik — Girl
• Days of Honor — Mucha
• Teraz albo nigdy! — Zyta
• Trzeci oficer — Halina
• 2008Wednesday, Thursday Morning — Teresa
• Ekipa — Magdalena Nowasz, Magdalena Nowasz, córka Henryka
• Trivial Of My Life — Katarzyna Zielińska

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 2021Talking Heads 2021 — Self