Dorota Segda is an actress in theater, film and television. She is also an academic teacher - assistant professor at the Ludwik Solski Academy for the Dramatic Arts

Ludwik Solski Academy for the Dramatic Arts

Ludwik Solski Academy for the Dramatic Arts , located in Kraków, Poland, was founded in 1946 by a well-known Polish actor, Juliusz Osterwa, who took the initial steps leading to the establishment of the Academy through the amalgamation of three local studios, the Theatre Actors' Studio at...

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She graduated from King John III Sobieski Secondary School and the Ludwik Solski Academy, both in Krakow. Since 1987, she has been an actress of Krakow's Old Theatre. She has also worked at the National Theatre in Warsaw. Her theatrical career includes Albertine's role in the Operetka by Witold Gombrowicz

Witold Gombrowicz

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, directed by Tadeusz Bradecki in the Old Theatre (1988). She was also Salome

Salome

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 in Śnie srebrnym Salomei (Starym Theater, 1993), Marguerite in Faust

Faust

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by Johann Wolfgang Goethe (Starym Theater, 1997) and Rachelę in Stanisława Wyspiańskiego's Weselu (National Theatre, 2000).

She has twice won the prize granted by the editors of the Polish theater magazine, Teatr - in the 1992/1993 season, for the role of Salome and in the 1996/1997 season, for the role of Margaret in Faust.

Her popularity gained her film and television roles, including title role in the films Faustyna as well as roles in film, Tato and the show, Na dobre i na złe (For Better And For Worse). In the Polish dub of the films Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

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, Segda voiced the character of Bellatrix Lestrange, played by Helena Bonham Carter. In 2009, she starred in the TV series Naznaczony (Appointed) as a fencing coach Eve (Episode 8).

She is the granddaughter of Wladyslaw Segda, double Olympic bronze medalist in fencing. Since 2001 she is married to the composer Stanislaw Radwan.