Barbara Lass
Actor
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.
Filmography
Rosa Luxemburg
as Rosas Mutter 1986
Love at Twenty
as Basia (segment "Warszawa") 1962
Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory
as Priscilla 1961
Effi Briest
as Köchin 1974
Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir
as Self (archive footage) 2012
When Angels Fall
as Jeune femme 1959
Ewa Wants to Sleep
as Ewa Bonecka 1958
Bad Luck
as Jola 1960
The Joy of Living
as Franca Fossati 1961
Vice and Virtue
as Prisoner (uncredited) 1963
Jowita
as Agnieszka 'Jowita' (as Barbara Kwiatkowska) 1967
Rififi in Tokyo
as Françoise Merigne 1963
How It's Done
as Vacationist 1974
Ostrożnie yeti
as Bride (uncredited) 1961
Pan Anatol szuka miliona
as Iwona Słowikowska 1959
Der Pfarrer von St. Pauli
as Dagmar 1970