Barbara Lass

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1940-06-01 (55 years old)

Deathday

1995-03-06

Place of Birth

Partów k. Gostynina, Niemcy (obecnie Polska)

Barbara Lass

Biography

Barbara Kwiatkowska-Lass was a Polish stage and screen actress. Although she received ballet and dance education, she eventually took up an acting career. After her debut role in Tadeusz Chmielewski's comedy "Ewa chce spać" (1957) she gained wider popularity in Poland. In 1959 she left Poland for the West and soon starred in a few major films like "La millième fenêtre" ,with Jean-Louis Trintignant, and "Che gioia vivere", starring Alain Delon. She married film director Roman Polanski in 1959; they divorced in 1962.

Acting

1974

Effi Briest

as Köchin

1960

Tysiąc talarów

as Kasia Wydech

1962

Spóźnieni przechodnie

as Herself (segment 5)

1958

Ewa Wants to Sleep

as Ewa Bonecka

1959

Słoń

as uczennica

1961

The Joy of Living

as Franca Fossati

1974

How It's Done

as Vacationist

1961

Ostrożnie yeti

as Bride (uncredited)

1963

Rififi in Tokyo

as Françoise Merigne

1967

Jowita

as Agnieszka 'Jowita' (as Barbara Kwiatkowska)

1972

Doppelspiel in Paris

as Renée Borni, seine Geliebte

1970

Hauser's Memory

as Angelika

1990

1986

Rosa Luxemburg

as Rosas Mutter

1984

Blaubart

as Rosalinde

2012

Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir

as Self (archive footage)

1959

Pan Anatol szuka miliona

as Iwona Słowikowska (as Barbara Kwiatkowska)

1960

Bad Luck

as Jola

1962

Love at Twenty

as Basia (segment "Warszawa")

1958

1963

Vice and Virtue

as Prisoner (uncredited)

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