Maja Komorowska (Maria Tyszkiewicz, 1937), thanks to her exceptional personality and perfection in acting, gained early recognition not only as an outstanding actress, but also as a moral authority among professional actors.

Krzysztof Zanussi’s favourite actress, she played many great roles in the director’s films, including Emilia in “A Year of the Quiet Sun”, the first Polish picture to win a Golden Lion in Venice. Her acting relies on communication – emotions, touch, intonation – between two grown-up characters marked by fate whose only common code, the only language is everything non-verbal.

Maja Komorowska is a theatre and film actress, pedagogue and professor. Has been working with The Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw since 1983. Graduate of PWST in Cracow (1960). Made her debut in 1960 in theatre Groteska in Cracow. Performed in theatres in Opole and Wrocław, and plays in Teatr Współczesny in Warsaw since 1972. Works with many prominent theatre and film directors. Played in a number of Polish and foreign films, and aside from her continued work with the theatre, she performed more than 30 significant roles in TV plays. For many years, she has greatly valued meetings with audiences both in Poland and abroad, during which she reads poems by prominent poets. Engaged in social matters; under the martial law, worked in the Primatial Social Council and in the Committee on Helping Internees and Their Families, later in the S.O.S. social help foundation with Jacek Kuroń. Currently a member of the Council of Oncology Hospice. Protagonist and co-author of four books.