Barbara Lass

Biography

Barbara Kwiatkowska-Lass was a Polish stage and screen actress. Although she received ballet and dance education, she eventually took up an acting career. After her debut role in Tadeusz Chmielewski's comedy "Ewa chce spać" (1957) she gained wider popularity in Poland. In 1959 she left Poland for the West and soon starred in a few major films like "La millième fenêtre" ,with Jean-Louis Trintignant, and "Che gioia vivere", starring Alain Delon. She married film director Roman Polanski in 1959; they divorced in 1962.

Movies & TV Shows

1. Two Men and a Wardrobe (1958)
2. Rosa Luxemburg (1986) — Rosas Mutter
3. Love at Twenty (1962) — Basia (segment "Warszawa")
4. Effi Briest (1974) — Köchin
5. Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory (1961) — Priscilla
6. Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir (2012) — Self (archive footage)
7. When Angels Fall (1959) — Young Woman
8. Bad Luck (1960) — Jola
9. Ewa Wants to Sleep (1958) — Ewa Bonecka
10. The Joy of Living (1961) — Franca Fossati
11. Jowita (1967) — Agnieszka 'Jowita' (as Barbara Kwiatkowska)
12. Vice and Virtue (1963) — Prisoner (uncredited)
13. Rififi in Tokyo (1963) — Françoise Merigne
14. How It's Done (1974) — Vacationist
15. Ostrożnie yeti (1961) — Bride (uncredited)
16. Pan Anatol szuka miliona (1959) — Iwona Słowikowska
17. Der Pfarrer von St. Pauli (1970) — Dagmar
18. Hauser's Memory (1970) — Angelika
19. Serenade for Two Spies (1965) — Tamara
20. Blaubart (1984) — Rosalinde
21. Tysiąc talarów (1960) — Kasia Wydech
22. Spóźnieni przechodnie (1962) — Herself (segment 5)
23. Żołnierz królowej Madagaskaru (1958) — Sabina Lemięcka
24. The Thousandth Window (1960) — Ania
25. Sting in the Flesh (1981) — Ines
26. Doppelspiel in Paris (1972) — Renée Borni, seine Geliebte
27. Eine Wahnsinnsehe (1990) — Herta
28. Gut gefragt ist halb gewonnen (1964) — Self
29. Obrazki z podróży (1959)
30. Słoń (1959) — uczennica
31. Cracow by Polanski (2010)