Alicja Bachleda

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Birth Name: Alicja Bachleda-Curuś

Age: 43, born 12 May 1983

Country of origin: Mexico

Currently Residing In: Poland

Height: 5' 6"

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ALICJA BACHLEDA ANS ONDINE INTERVIEW

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Description: Alicja Bachleda-Curuś (pron. [aˈlit͡sʲja baˈxlɛda ˈt͡suruɕ]; born 12 May 1983) is a Polish actress and singer who has appeared in films including Trade, Ondine and Pan Tadeusz. Early life Bachleda-Curuś was born in Tampico, Mexico. She is the daughter of Lidia and Tadeusz Bachleda-Curuś, a geologist who was working in Mexico at that time. She has a brother, Tadeusz Bachleda-Curuś and half-sister, Urszula Welenc. Her uncle, Adam Bachleda-Curuś, is the former mayor of Zakopane, Poland, the city where she was raised. While growing up in Poland, Bachleda studied at the Elżbieta Armatys's Theater, Music and Dan
Alicja Bachleda-Curuś (pron. [aˈlit͡sʲja baˈxlɛda ˈt͡suruɕ]; born 12 May 1983) is a Polish actress and singer who has appeared in films including Trade, Ondine and Pan Tadeusz.

Early life
Bachleda-Curuś was born in Tampico, Mexico. She is the daughter of Lidia and Tadeusz Bachleda-Curuś, a geologist who was working in Mexico at that time. She has a brother, Tadeusz Bachleda-Curuś and half-sister, Urszula Welenc. Her uncle, Adam Bachleda-Curuś, is the former mayor of Zakopane, Poland, the city where she was raised.

While growing up in Poland, Bachleda studied at the Elżbieta Armatys's Theater, Music and Dance Studio with an additional profile with extended learning of Spanish and English. She studied Iberian studies and cultural studies at the Jagiellonian University, but suspended her studies due to professional reasons[1][2] She studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York City, as well as psychology at the University of California where she graduated with a degree in art history.

Acting career

Alicja Bachleda, Colin Farrell and director Neil Jordan at the Ondine premiere, 2010 Tribeca Film Festival in New York.
At age 15, Bachleda landed a lead role in the 1999 film Pan Tadeusz, directed by Academy Award-winning Polish director Andrzej Wajda.[citation needed] Four years later, she won a role in Polish soap opera Na dobre i na złe.[citation needed] Bachleda then began crossing over into mainstream films outside Poland, appearing in the German film Sommersturm, a coming of age story, in 2004. Bachleda-Curuś returned to Mexico to film the 2007 thriller Trade, starring Kevin Kline, an unflinching look at the world of human trafficking. Bachleda then returned to Europe to play a Jewish girl in the historical drama The Beheaded Rooster [de], which took place during World War II in Transylvania, Romania. Her next film was 2009's Ondine, a film about an Irish fisherman who thinks he catches a selkie, a mythological seal/human.

In 2012 Bachleda-Curuś starred as Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Poland in September Eleven 1683, and appeared in a lead role in The Girl Is in Trouble.

Personal life
On 7 October 2009 in Los Angeles, Bachleda-Curuś gave birth to her son Henry with Irish actor Colin Farrell.[3] He was baptized on 29 December 2009 in the Roman Catholic Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Kraków. It was reported on 15 October 2010 that Farrell and Bachleda-Curuś had separated.

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