Famous People with Name Krystyna

Krystyna Skarbek,            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Krystyna Skarbek,: (1 May 1908 - 15 June 1952) was a Polish-born World War II British SOE agent also known by the nom de guerre, Christine Granville. She became celebrated especially for her exploits in Nazi-occupied Poland and France.

Krystyna Holuj-Radzikowska            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Krystyna Holuj-Radzikowska: (5 February 1931, Lvov – 29 November 2006) was a Polish chess Woman Grandmaster.She was nine times Polish Champion (1951, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1966, and 1969)

Krystyna Skarbek            Origin/Culture/Country: British

Krystyna Skarbek: was a Polish-born World War II British SOE agent also known by the nom de guerre, Christine Granville. She was especially celebrated for her exploits in Nazi-occupied Poland and France.She became a British agent months before the Special Operations Executive was founded in July 1940 and was the longest-serving of all SOE's women agents.

Krystyna Feldman            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Krystyna Feldman: was a Polish actress.a Catholic mother, Katarzyna Sawicka-Feldman, an opera singer and a Jewish father, Ferdynand Feldman, an actor, Krystyna Feldman starred in theatre productions there until 1944, and later in Lódz, Szczecin, Opole, and Kraków. Since 1983, she performed at the Teatr Nowy in Poznan.Feldman made her film debut in Celuloza (1953), directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz. Her career continued with various supporting roles. She was best known for a male role of an elderly disabled painter Nikifor in Mój Nikifor, for which she won the award for best actress in 2004 at the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia and numerous awards at other festivals in the world. She also appeared as the grandmother in the TV sitcom, Swiat wedlug Kiepskich.

Krystyna Janda            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Krystyna Janda: is a Polish film and theater actress best known in the West for playing leading roles in several films by Polish director Andrzej Wajda, including Man of Marble (Czlowiek z marmuru, 1976) and Man of Iron (Czlowiek z zelaza, 1981).In 1982, she played the lead character in Ryszard Bugajski's film Przesluchanie (Interrogation), which only first premiered 7 years later in 1989. Despite the film's late release, she garnered international acclaim for her performance, including winning Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival[1] and Polish Film Festival in 1990.