Barbara Lass
Birthday
1940/06/01
Day of death
1995/03/06 (54 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Partów k. Gostynina, Niemcy (obecnie Polska)
Also know as
Barbara Kwiatkowska , Barbara Kwiatkowska-Lass, Barbara Kwiatkowski
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
(1970) Der Pfarrer von St. Pauli
as Dagmar
(1960) The Thousandth Window
as Ania
(1959) Obrazki z podróży
as ---
(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
(1959) When Angels Fall
as ---
(1961) The Joy of Living
as Franca Fossati
(1973) How It's Done
as Holiday-Maker
(1961) Ostrożnie yeti
as Bride (uncredited)
(1963) Rififi in Tokyo
as Françoise Merigne
(1967) Jowita
as Agnieszka 'Jowita' (as Barbara Kwiatkowska)
(1981) Sting in the Flesh
as Ines
(1972) Doppelspiel in Paris
as Renée Borni, seine Geliebte
(1965) Serenade for Two Spies
as Tamara
(1970) Hauser's Memory
as Angelika
(1990) Eine Wahnsinnsehe
as Herta
(1958) Two Men and a Wardrobe
as ---
(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)
(1961) Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory
as Priscilla
(1960) Bad Luck
as Jola
(1962) Love at Twenty
as Basia (segment "Warszawa")
(2010) Cracow by Polanski
as ---
(1958) Żołnierz królowej Madagaskaru
as Sabina Lemięcka
(1963) Vice and Virtue
as Prisoner (uncredited)
(1964) Gut gefragt ist halb gewonnen
as Self