Pola Raksa

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Full Name Apolonia Raksa Role Movie star Occupation Actress Parents Edward Raksa		Years active 1960–1993 Children Marcin Kostenko Name Pola Raksa

Born April 14, 1941 (age 83) ( 1941-04-14 ) Lida, Hrodna Region, Soviet Union Spouse Andrzej Kostenko (m. 1964–1970) Education National Film School in Lodz Movies and TV shows Czterej pancerni i pies, The Ashes, Przygoda z piosenka, Hijacking of Agatha, Snowfall Similar People Andrzej Kostenko, Janusz Gajos, Franciszek Pieczka, Barbara Brylska, Roman Wilhelmi

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Apolonia "Pola" Raksa (born April 14, 1941) is a Polish movie star, singer, and model who was especially popular in Poland and abroad in the 1960s and 1970s.

Pola Raksa with a sad face, blonde hair, and wearing a black hat while leaning on the wall.

Born to Edward Raksa, Pola was born in Lida. Her parents left Nazi-occupied territory in 1943 and after the World War II settled in Wrocław (western Lesnica neighborhood).

Pola Raksa with a serious face, wearing an army hat and uniform.

Her career started in the 1950s, when she was spotted by a reporter of the Dookoła Świata magazine in a bar mleczny (Polish cafeteria). He took some shots of her and Raksa appeared in the magazine as Girl of the Week. Soon afterwards, she was offered her first cameos in movies. After graduating from the Liceum ogólnokształcące No.1 in Wrocław, she studied in the Wroclaw University, Department of Philologie (Polish Language). Raksa participated in the student theater Kalambur. Later she changed her major and moved to Łódź, to the National Film School in Łódź. She graduated in 1964 and in the same year debuted on stage. Between 1964 and 1968, she played in Teatr Powszechny in Łódź, then moved to Warsaw, to play in Teatr Wspolczesny (at Śródmieście, Warsaw). In 2003 readers of the Super Express daily chose her the best of all Polish blonde actresses. Raksa was awarded several prizes. Have a son, Marcin Kostenko, with her first husband, Andrzej Kostenko.

Pola Raksa with long blonde hair, wearing a dirty jacket while holding bullets.

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Selected filmography

Pola Raksa with a serious face, short blonde hair, and wearing a polo shirt while sitting on a chair.

Szatan z siódmej klasy (Satan from the seventh grade), as Wanda (debut, 1960) along with Maria Kaniewska

Panienka z okienka (Lady in a window), as Hedwiga (1964)

Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie (The Saragossa Manuscript), Inezilia, Camila's sister (1964)

Popioły, as Helena de With, Olbromski's love (1965)

Bicz bozy, as Hania, Pawel's crush (1966)

Czterej pancerni i pies as the nurse Marusia nicknamed Ogoniok (in one of the episodes she sings a song in Russian Four tank-men, one bride on YouTube),

Przygoda z piosenka (Adventure with a song), as Mariola Bronska (1968).

Uprowadzenie Agaty (Agata's Abduction), as Agata's mother (1993, latest)