Danuta Szaflarska

Polish actress (1915–2017)

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Danuta Szaflarska ( Polish pronunciation: [daˈnuta ʂafˈlaɾska] ; 6 February 1915 – 19 February 2017) was a Polish film and stage actress.
Szaflarska participated in the Warsaw Uprising as a liaison.
Personal life Szaflarska was born in Kosarzyska, Piwniczna-Zdrój (Galicia, Austria-Hungary, now Poland).
They had one daughter, Maria.
Her second husband, Janusz Kilański, was a radio announcer.

Danuta Szaflarska (Polish pronunciation: [daˈnuta ʂafˈlaɾska]; 6 February 1915 – 19 February 2017) was a Polish film and stage actress. In 2008 she was awarded the Złota Kaczka for the best Polish actress of the century. Szaflarska participated in the Warsaw Uprising as a liaison. Szaflarska was awarded the Order of Polonia Restituta, Commander's Cross and Commander's Cross with Star, one of Poland's highest Orders and Gold Medal of Gloria Artis (2007).

Personal life

Szaflarska was born in Kosarzyska, Piwniczna-Zdrój (Galicia, Austria-Hungary, now Poland). She married her first husband, Jan Ekier, a pianist, in 1942. They had one daughter, Maria. The pair divorced. Her second husband, Janusz Kilański, was a radio announcer. He was the father of Szaflarska's second daughter, Agnieszka. Kilański and Szaflarska also divorced. Szaflarska turned 100 in February 2015. She was a regular player of Teatr Rozmaitości in Warsaw, specializing in modern and progressive drama, and in her later years (till 2016) appeared in four different plays at the theatre.