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One of several well-known Polish actors who has worked with American dialog coach and actor TG Boleyn to improve their accent or English in preparation for English speaking films, in this case for 'Summer Love' which also starred Val Kilmer.

One of the highest paid actor in Polish film history.

His wife, Lidia Popiel, is an accomplished and successful model, photographer and actress.

Has one daughter Aleksandra (1992) with wife Lidia Popiel and 2 twin boys - Mikolaj and Michal (1979) - from a previous relationship.

His current popularity started when director Wladyslaw Pasikowski gave him a role in his debut movie "Kroll", which became a big hit. Since then he was permanently labeled as a "tough guy" of the Polish cinema.

The most popular and highest paid Polish actor of 1990s-2000s.

Several of the movies he starred in between 1981 and 1982 were held by the communist censorship bureau, and were shown only after 1987.

In the years 1977-1981 he taught at the Wroclaw branch of the Krakow's PWST.

A graduate of the National Higher School of Theater (PWST) in Krakow, where he debuted in December 1975 on the stage of the Stary Theater in the play "Biale ogrody".