Jerzy Radziwiłowicz, one of Poland’s most prominent actors, is sixty years old.

A graduate of the State Higher School of Drama in Warsaw in 1972, he started his career in Krakow and rose to prominence as one of the stars of the Stary Theatre there.

He also taught at the city’s Drama Academy, serving as its deputy rector in the early 1980s. He has been a member of the National Theatre company in Warsaw since 1998.

His successes include the roles of Raskolnikov in the stage adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment and Don Juan. Radziwiłowicz skyrocketed to stardom for his leads in Andrzej Wajda’s films Man of Marble and Man of Iron. He had appeared in about forty films.  In recent years, he also tried his hand, with much success, as the translator of plays by Moliere and Pierre de Marivaux.

His distinctions include the French Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

He is married, with two chidren, and has a grandson. (mk)