Tomasz Borkowy

Acting

Tomasz Borkowy

Born 1952-09-17 · Warsaw, Poland

Tomasz Borkowy is a Polish actor, often credited as Tomek Bork. He graduated from Theatre college in Kraków in 1977 and first came to the UK the following year, unable to speak English. He moved to the UK full time in 1980 and appeared in a number of film and television productions. He has also continued to work in Poland, where he is most well known for playing the lead role in the TV drama series, Dom (House) which ran for 7 series over 20 years (1980–2000). Borkowy has also starred in and produced a number of plays at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for the past 18 years. Borkowy now lives in Edinburgh, Scotland and southern Spain. He runs Universal Arts – an international agency and production company for performing arts, while still working as an actor.

Acting credits

The Unbearable Lightness of Being poster
6.8

Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named Tereza, and brings her back with him. Tereza is surprised to learn that Tomas is already having an affair with the bohemian Sabina, but when the Soviet invasion occurs, all three flee to Switzerland. Sabina begins an affair, Tom continues womanizing, and Tereza, disgusted, returns to Czechoslovakia. Realizing his mistake, Tomas decides to chase after her.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

1988

Doctor Who: The Curse of Fenric poster
8.4

The Doctor and Ace arrive at a secret military base during World War II, where an ancient evil from the Doctor's past prepares to make his final deadly move. As hideous vampires rise from the sea and Russian commandoes begin to close in, they are confronted not only with a mystery from the distant past but also a terrifying vision of mankind's future...

Doctor Who: The Curse of Fenric

1989

Murder on the Moon poster
3.8

After a nuclear war on Earth, the Soviet Union and the U.S. both establish outposts on the moon. When a murder occurs on the outpost, both U.S. and Soviet investigators are forced to work on the case together.

Murder on the Moon

1989

Sleepers poster
NR

Amidst the thaw of glasnost, the Kremlin discovers that two Soviet agents, sent to England under deep cover in 1965, have been “lost.” A beautiful and ambitious Russian agent, sent to London to track them down, becomes embroiled in a tangle of CIA, KGB and MI-5 plots and counterplots as the two lost agents, now utterly assimilated, try to avoid detection.

Sleepers

1991

Journey's End poster
8.0

A British Company in the WWI trenches await an inevitable German attack in this 1988 adaptation of R.C. Sherriff's play.

Journey's End

1988

A Bear Named Wojtek poster
8.0

Displaced by the Second World War, a troop of Polish soldiers form an inseparable bond through an orphaned bear they name Wojtek.

A Bear Named Wojtek

2023

A Question of Identity poster
7.0

Erwin van Haarlem is a man of mystery. Living in London in 1986 and ostensibly a Dutch art dealer, he is in fact spying for Czechoslovakia with a mission to track down supporters of the dissident group, Chapter 77.

A Question of Identity

1992

No artwork available
NR

At the Cultural Center, a young scientist gives a lecture that evokes spontaneous reactions from the audience.

Seans

1978

Border poster
7.0

Czechoslovakia, 1952. For some, life under the post-war Stalinist regime is hardly worth living and although the escape route to the West is almost suicide, the rewards - prosperity, political freedom, even luxury - make it a risk worth taking.

Border

1988

You Will Not Have Peace poster
7.0

After leaving prison, Tolek plans to get revenge on his former girlfriend.

You Will Not Have Peace

1978

How Deep Is the Ocean? poster
10.0

Marek wakes up in the belly of a whale, where he meets his deceased loved ones.

How Deep Is the Ocean?

2013

No artwork available
NR

Unconventional pedagogical methods of a new teacher raise concerns of the provincial school's principal.

The Beard

1974

Tylko Beatrycze poster
7.0

Raised by the monks, Stanisław gets involved in a scheme to murder the king.

Tylko Beatrycze

1976