Agnieszka Wlodarczyk

Early life

Włodarczyk was born on 13 December 1980 in Sławno. Her parents divorced when she was two years old. After her mother, Anna Stasiukiewicz, remarried, the family moved from town to town, including Ciechanów, Poznań and Warsaw. She attended four primary schools.

Career

In March 1996, Włodarczyk appeared in Janusz Józefowicz's play Tyle miłości at Studio Buffo theatre in Warsaw. She subsequently took part in the musical Metro, another play directed by Józefowicz, and the music video for the song "Reklama" by Polish singer K.A.S.A.. Her first big success came in 1997 when she appeared in Maciej Ślesicki's movie Sara alongside such stars of Polish cinema as Marek Perepeczko, Bogusław Linda and Cezary Pazura.

Włodarczyk played the role of Agnieszka Cezary in a Polish comedy sitcom 13 posterunek. The first series ran from 1997 to 1998 and turned out to be a massive hit in Poland. In 1999, she starred in a TV series entitled Pierwszy milion and one year after, in its film version. In 2000, she also took part in the second series of 13 posterunek and did several guest appearances in the soap opera Na dobre i na złe and the comedy series Świat według Kiepskich. In 2001 and 2003, she starred in the series Zostać miss. Also in 2001, she accepted the part of Wiktoria Potoczny in a Polish soap opera Plebania. She followed that by acting in a number of top-grossing Polish movies, such as E=mc² (2002) or Nigdy w życiu! (2004).

In 2005, Włodarczyk was one of the contestants of Taniec z gwiazdami, the first season of the Polish edition of Dancing with the Stars, where she took the seventh place. From March to June 2007, she participated in a Polsat TV show Jak oni śpiewają, which was the Polish version of Soapstar Superstar. She won the show, garnering over 60% of all votes, and on 30 November 2007, her debut album was released, entitled Nie dla oka.... Although the first single "Zawsze byłam" became a hit in Poland, the album received unfavourable reviews. In the same year, Włodarczyk hosted the Miss Polonia 2007 competition. In 2008, she recorded a brand new dance song "To on" which was released on a compilation by Radio Eska. She also took part in the third season of the TV show Gwiazdy tańczą na lodzie, the Polish version of Dancing on Ice.

Between 2009 and 2012, Włodarczyk appeared in the TV series Pierwsza miłość. 2011 saw the release of her second, Christmas album Najpiękniejsze polskie kolędy, and in 2012, she took part in the film Kac Wawa. In spring 2014, she took part in the Polish version of Your Face Sounds Familiar, called Twoja twarz brzmi znajomo, where she came second.