Anecdotes

In preparation for her portrayal of Marina Oswald in Oliver Stone's award-winning film JFK (1991), she studied the 26 volumes of Warren Commission Report, read every single Time and Newsweek magazine article about her character, and then lived with Marina Oswald, wife of the alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy.

She passed her entrance exam to the National Film School =with the highest score in the country, and received a Masters Degree with High Honors at age 22.

Her very first film role was as an extra in the Academy Award winning film The Tin Drum which happened to be filming near her home.

Beginning in the late 1980s, soon after her arrival in America, Pozniak began a campaign to get the US Government to recognize International Women's Day. She was very successful, and she accomplished the introduction of the first bill in the history of the U.S. Congress for national recognition of the holiday (H.J. Res. 316) designating March 8 as International Women's Day occurred on March 8, 1994.

Launched a campaign which resulted in the very first bill passed by the US Congress and Senate in the history of United States officially recognizing historic International Women's Day - H.J .Resolution 316.

Pozniak is also an accomplished painter, and continues to work in film, often appearing in experimental and independent productions, several of which she has also directed. In her directorial debut which was a short film "Mnemosyne" she used several art pieces made by her.

Also an artist, Pozniak's more recent paintings and sculptures explore the collision of ancient myths and the modern world. By combining imagery reminiscent of surrealist dreamscapes with found objects these works challenge our notions of continuity between past and present.

Known for her athletic figure, she was selected as the calendar girl for the Polish National Soccer Team.

Name is pronounced Be-ah-ta Posh-nyak.

Celebrity Presenter along with Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Sofia Coppola, Johnny Depp for the 7th Annual IFP (Independent Feature Project West) "Independent Spirit Awards". Beata Pozniak was presenting Best Foreign Film. That year the Master of Ceremonies was: Buck Henry. Keynote speakers: Jodie Foster, Francis Ford Coppola.

Pozniak lives in Beverly Hills, California in a home once owned by Errol Flynn.

She is the first female narrator, a non-native for whom English is a second language to narrate an audiobook in English and win Earphones Awards, Voice Arts Awards, an Audie and the Washington Post Best Audiobook of the Year.

Owns a house in Beverly Hills that belonged to Mrs. Errol Flynn.

Has a Master of Arts in theater and film studies - (PWSFTViT) Film School in Lódz, Poland Krzysztof Kieslowski, Roman Polanski, Andrzej Wajda alma mater).

Having begun her career in a range of award winning "artsy" European productions, Beata was discovered by Oliver Stone who cast her in her first American feature, JFK (1991).

She founded Theater Discordia creating performance-art pieces that have been part of the L.A. Theatre Festival, and the L.A. Poetry Festival, she directed and wrote "Poeticus Umbilicus", "Poetry Discordia", "Return of Umbilicus", "We & They" and "Changing Flags." Her Theater Discordia evolved, with the participation of Peter Sellars, into a celebrated venue for experimental theater works.