Elzbieta Czyzewska
Polish actress
Born
14 May 1938
in WarsawMasoviaPoland
Died
17 June 2010
Gained fame in Polish films playing wide range of characters from drama (Andrzej Wajda’s Everything for Sale or Wojciech Has The Saragossa Manuscript) to comedies (A Bride for the Australian, Where is the General and Giuseppe in Warsaw). After her husband, American journalist David Halberstam, was expelled from Poland by communist government she decided to move to United States with him, where she continued her career, but with limited success concentrating mostly on theatre work. She returned to Poland in 2007, shortly before her death in 2010.
