Katarzyna Figura

Acting

Katarzyna Figura

Born 1962-03-22 · Warsaw, Poland

Katarzyna Figura is a Polish film, theatre and television actress. She is sometimes billed as "Kasia Figura". Figura was born in Warsaw, Poland. She graduated from the National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw and continued her studies at the Parisian Conservatoire d'Art Dramatique. She is one of the most recognized and popular actresses in the contemporary Polish film industry. She often played blond bombshells, prostitutes, and wives of rich men. Recently, she has changed her image radically in favor of more mature characters, very often sorrowful and embittered.

Acting credits

The Pianist poster
8.4

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.

The Pianist

2002

The Player poster
7.2

A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?

The Player

1992

Girls to Buy poster
5.9

Based on a true story, Emi — a young, ambitious girl, dreams about life outside her small town. When an opportunity arises to become an exclusive escort, she jumps in without hesitation. Soon she climbs the ranks and starts her own VIP escort service; recruiting Polish celebrities, actors, singers, and models. However, the luxurious and enticing world eventually shows its dark side.

Girls to Buy

2021

Prêt-à-Porter poster
5.2

During Paris Fashion Week, models, designers and industry hot shots gather to work, mingle, argue and try to seduce one another.

Prêt-à-Porter

1994

Komediantka poster
6.3

A young woman runs away from her home to the big city, gets a job in theatre and gets involved with shady characters.

Komediantka

1987

Porno poster
6.9

Michał, a mature man and father, is full of bitterness, regret, and longing for unfulfilled youthful dreams of true love. He reminisces about all his past lovers. With his first, Asia, he went on a seaside camping trip. He was 19 at the time, and she was two years younger. Despite his unambiguous advances, the girl resisted for a long time. Eventually, however, she gave in. For Michał, it was the proverbial pebble that caused an avalanche.

Porno

1990

Killer poster
7.6

An innocent cab driver is mistaken for a contract killer and imprisoned. Soon, he is sprung by a mob boss who needs a "killer" for a few more jobs.

Killer

1997

Quebonafide: Północ, Południe poster
8.0

A hybrid film story, combining the form of a musical with elements of a music film and a personal documentary. The central character and narrator of the story is Quebo – a renowned artist who disappeared from the scene and now returns to speak about his struggle with bipolar disorder.

Quebonafide: Północ, Południe

2025

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Podróż sentymentalna

2026

Kleks Academy 2 poster
5.6

Ada returns to the magical Kleks Academy to solve the mystery of her robot friend's origins, while Professor Kleks seeks answers in the real world.

Kleks Academy 2

2025

Red Shoe Diaries poster
4.9

A man grieving the loss of his fiancée discovers a diary she kept that details a side of her he never knew. In an effort to understand, he reaches out in an unusual way by placing an ad asking for women’s diaries and hearing their stories.

Red Shoe Diaries

1992

No artwork available
6.0

One of the classes of the Warsaw high school boycotts the test in chemistry lessons. A schoolgirl who has not succumbed to pressure from her peers becomes the target of their revenge.

Mysz

1980

How to Deal with a Hangover poster
2.5

The Tiger - a forty-year-old film director - uses life by sprinkling it generously with alcohol and cocaine. The problem is that when hangover is left as the only companion in life.

How to Deal with a Hangover

2014

Diablo: The Utimate Race poster
5.0

Kuba's sister falls seriously ill. In order to gather the required money for treatment he starts taking part in illegal car races.

Diablo: The Utimate Race

2019

Central Station poster
7.0

Alex, a sought-after professional photographer, is involved in a mysterious series of murders that are always carried out in the same circumstances.

Central Station

1990

Balladyna poster
NR

Desires, obsessions and unfulfilled love - the psychedelic formula of the play pushes the previous boundaries of communication with the audience.

Balladyna

2020

No End poster
7.0

1982, Poland. A translator loses her husband and becomes a victim of her own sorrow. She looks to sex, to her son, to law, and to hypnotism when she has nothing else in this time of martial law when Solidarity was banned.

No End

1985

Never Gonna Snow Again poster
6.2

Zenia is an industrious Ukrainian migrant worker in Poland who makes house calls as a masseur to the needy and aspirational residents of a middle-class gated community near Warsaw. He is privy to all of their problems, anxieties and secrets – and something of an unwitting guru figure. Zenia’s grounded spirituality, apparent healing powers and broad shoulders make him an object of lust for many of the lost souls in the community.

Never Gonna Snow Again

2021

In Love poster
6.3

Beauty Zosia is a “hunter” by nature: she very professionally captivates rich men, draws money from them, and then throws deceived fans and plans a new victim. Once at the opening day, Zosya meets an irresistible macho, photo artist Mateusz, and, contrary to her own principles, falls in love with him. But after a while she begins to realize that Mateusz is also a “hunter” and that they are colleagues ...

In Love

2000

The Sundial Clock poster
4.5

The story of a married couple, actress and director, who live in the bosom of nature, in a stream hut, and realize a story about their own lives, thoughts and fantasies. Working on a film is a naive attempt to search for meaning in life.

The Sundial Clock

1997

Damaged poster
5.1

Rainer Dulsky, a professor of psychiatry from Switzerland, comes to Melania, the granddaughter of Mrs. Dulska. He feels he’s got something in common with the tenement house in which the Dulski family live... Melania, a film director, intrigued by her family history joins Rainer in his research. Their discoveries will take them back to the past full of secrets that were meant to stay hidden forever. The Dulski family have much on their conscience...

Damaged

2015

Nerd poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

Nerd

2019

Germans poster
6.3

A story about a German family during World War II with every family member having a different approach to Jews, raging from hatred to compassion.

Germans

1997

Ga-ga: Glory to the Heroes poster
6.4

Scope is a prisoner on a behemoth space station and is chosen, like all his fellow prisoners, to 'volunteer' for the exploration of far-away planets. Landing on planet Australia 458, he is given a hero's welcome with all the sex, booze, and violence that any one man can stomach. But as his new caretakers push him towards even more heinous and deplorable acts, Scope finds that his freedom comes with a high price; his own violent demise, broadcast live for the viewing pleasure of Australia 458's inhabitants.

Ga-ga: Glory to the Heroes

1986