Maria Kowalik
Known For & Full Filmography23 Titles
Drama Series - 2004, 16 episodes • as Inez Lewiński, kochanka Orlicza
Kryminalni was a Polish crime drama television series that aired on TVN network from September 18, 2004 until May 24, 2008. It ran for 8 seasons and 101 episodes were broadcast in total. It was created by Polish director and screenwriter Piotr Wereśniak and produced by MTL Maxfilm studio. The series followed life and work of police officers from the elite Criminal Terror and Murders Division of the Warsaw Metropolitan Police; the title refers to police officers in the crime section. The three main characters were Adam Zawada, an experienced, tough cup, his younger colleague Marek Brodecki and Barbara Storosz, an ambitious female officer who in the first season joins the team just after graduating. Although none of the main actors had had star status before the series debuted, all three of them rose to prominence and popularity during the 5-year-long run. Many of Poland's best known actors guest starred, usually playing roles of people involved in just one particular investigation. The serial was one of the most popular in Poland: each week it had an audience of 4 million.
Drama Series - 2022, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
When their latest heist goes wrong, three older female burglars evade officials by hiding out in a nursing home — where they uncover a sinister secret.
Drama Series - 2020, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
A small-town policewoman is chasing a vicious serial killer; at stake is first a country girl's life, and then her own life.
Drama Series - 1976, 16 episodes • as Katarzyna Jańczakówna
The series centres around the investigations of Police Lieutenant Sławomir Borewicz. Each episode features a different case being solved by Borewicz.
Drama Series - 2021, 16 episodes • as Leokadia
In these eight tales set across Europe, singles navigate love's complexities via an online dating site, from marital games to elderly romance.
Drama Series - 1975, 16 episodes • as robotnica Marynia
1957. Excessively high production standards imposed by the authorities result in the plan not being fulfilled, and the workers cannot imagine living normally without rewards and bonuses. A rebellion breaks out. Worker democracy wins – the working class elects a director from among its own ranks. He is an old locksmith with no managerial experience. Although he believes in the socialist spirit and has a communist past, he does not hold the position for long, as he makes promises too easily that he is unable to keep.
Drama Series - 1979, 16 episodes • as Anna Roche
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Drama Series - 2023, 16 episodes • as Zofia Stępień
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Drama Series - 2023, 16 episodes • as Zofia
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Drama Series - 2024, 16 episodes • as Stroke survivor
Jacek is a foodie, gay and Warsaw bon vivant who has his own TV show, several similarly eccentric close ones around him and self-destructive tendencies. A dramedy that makes fun of the Polish artistic elite, for whom Warsaw is “the only real Polish city”, cannot be compared to other shows. It is the authorial work of playwright and screenwriter Pawel Demirski. He wrote it from the beginning with the intention of presenting a hero contrasting with the burnout syndrome often felt today - a vital madman who believes the best is yet to come.
Movie - 2021, 2h 15m • as Joanna's aunt
A stay-at-home mom and avid reader of crime stories discovers the deepest secrets of a small town's residents while investigating a woman's murder.
Movie - 2025, 2h 15m • as Neighbor
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1974, 2h 15m • as Ewa Maksymowicz
The life of engineer Maksymowicz changes dramatically when he accidentally learns that he is terminally ill.
Movie - 2020, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Janek, who has two wives, skillfully maneuvers between them. The risk that one of his loved ones will learn about a double relationship increases dramatically and every lie will have colossal effects.
Movie - 1976, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A young landowner, fascinated by billiard, falls into the trap of gambling
Movie - 2022, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A small-time thief and his best friend get hired to rob a wealthy businessman, but things start to go sideways once the job is done.
Movie - 1975, 2h 15m • as Czajka
Two years after the war, during a train trip, Henryk (20) recollects the occupation period. He passes different train stations and recollects various situations from the past: his family life, working in a garage, guerrilla warfare, the fear that accompanied him every day. He’s looking at the travellers’ faces, including the ones who have survived the war.
Movie - 2018, 2h 15m • as kuracjuszka
With financial backing from local bureaucrats, five friends relive their high-volume glory days by getting their heavy metal band back together.
Movie - 2025, 2h 15m • as Ms. Łukomska
In 1982, a group of Poles, including 11-year old Irek and his mother Hanna, travel by bus to Budapest to get away from the tense political situation back at home.
Movie - 2026, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
The history of the "multi-generational house" community and its founder. DOM WISŁA is more of a squat, an enclave of normality, values and local folklore, a lonely and wild island on the map of a hostile district of a large city. And Kuba, who runs it, is the same. This house is his whole world, his only family. He built it on secrecy and now it's all falling apart.
Movie - 1975, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1979, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
The motto for the 13-year-old narrator Bärbel Fielow, as far as school is concerned, must always be the opinion in class.
Movie - 1976, 2h 15m • as Hanka
Set at the end of the XIX-th century. Madame Dulska is the sole and absolute ruler of her house in Cracow. She is ruthless, greedy and oversensitive of the reputation of her family. To protect his son from temptations she overlooks the affair he is having with the maid. Young Dulski first wants to marry the girl, but then yields to his mother demands and turns his interest to a cousin. Everything returns to normal: his father has his habitaul visits to a brothel, his son to a cabaret and Madame Dulska safeguards her reign.