Krystyna Stypulkowska

During the period when she studied Romance studies, she worked as a translator, among others René Clair, Yves Montand and other stars staying in Poland at the turn of the 1950s and 1960s. She made her debut with an episode in Antoni Bohdziewicz's "Rain Boots of Luck" (1958). She became popular thanks to the role of Pelagia in Andrzej Wajda's film entitled "Innocent Wizards" (1960). In the early 1960s, she left for Italy, where she studied acting and directing at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia for some time, and played one of the main roles in Enzo Battaglia's film "The La vita provisoria" (1962). She has had several film and television roles. In 1962, she starred in the film "A Girl from a Good Home"; then in two plays of the "Television Theater". In 1966, she appeared in the East German film directed by Frank Beyer, "Spur der Steine". After finishing her film career, she started working at the Polish Press Agency. In 1968, she emigrated to the United States, where she obtained a doctorate in comparative studies, was an Italian language teacher and taught French at one of the universities. After the divorce, she lived in Paris and also in Poland, where she worked in the theater and was a correspondent for "Dialog" magazine. After four years, she returned to the USA and lived in Washington. From 1980, she worked at the United States Department of State. She also worked at the Institute of Foreign Service, where she taught Polish to American diplomats.