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The Polish Academy Award for Best Actress is an annual award given to the best lead actress in Polish picture. [1]
The Polish Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress is an annual award given to the best supporting actress in Polish movie. [1]
YearActressMovie TitleRole2023ŚubukSchool principal2023Broad PeakEwa Dyakowska-Berbeka2023Inni ludzieAneta2023ApokawixaRobsonicaThere were fifteen Academy Awards given to Polish filmmakers for their work, including one Honorary Academy Award, one Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, and one Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. The cinematographer Janusz Kamiński is the most awarded Polish filmmaker.
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Duke was born at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan as the youngest of three children of Frances Margaret (née McMahon), a cashier, and John Patrick Duke, a handyman and cab driver of Irish descent. She was raised Roman Catholic. Duke spent her early life in the Elmhurst neighborhood of Queens, where her brother Raymond, her sister Carol, and she exper...
Singing
Like many teen stars of the era, and bolstered somewhat by her appearance in the musical Billie, Duke had a successful singing career, including two top-40 hits in 1965, "Don't Just Stand There" (number eight) and "Say Something Funny" (number 22). She also performed on TV shows such as The Ed Sullivan Show.
Mental health advocacy
In 1987, Duke revealed in her autobiography that she had been diagnosed with manic depression (now called bipolar disorder) in 1982, becoming one of the first public figures to speak out about her personal experience of mental illness. She also suffered from anorexia nervosa and during her teenaged years, weighed as little as 76 pounds. She attempted suicide in 1967 and was again hospitalized for mental health problems in 1969, eventually being diagnosed as manic depressive in 1982. Her treat...
Memoirs
Duke wrote three books. Her autobiography, Call Me Anna (ISBN 0-553-27205-5) was published in 1987 and Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness (ISBN 0-553-56072-7) was published in 1992.The third, In The Presence of Greatness—My Sixty Year Journey as an Actress (ISBN 9781629332352) (with William J. Jankowski), published posthumously in February 2018, is a collection of essays about her experiences with other artists and celebrities.
Over the course of her career, Duke received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, three Emmy Awards in 10 nominations, and two Golden Globe Awards amongst four nominations.In 1963, when she won her Academy Award, Duke became the youngest person to ever win an Academy Award in a competitive category. On August 17, 2004, Duke received a star...
Duke was married four times and had three children. A Catholic, Duke had dreams of becoming a nun in her youth. In her later life, she studied a number of different religions, commenting in 1995: "To suggest that one must spout Moses or Jesus or Buddha or chant like Tibetan monks in order to be religious, I believe, is not to walk in the path of Ch...
Duke died on the morning of March 29, 2016, in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, of sepsis from a ruptured intestine at the age of 69. Her son Sean Astin invited the public to contribute to a mental health foundation in his mother's name, the Patty Duke Mental Health Initiative.She was cremated and her ashes were interred at Forest Cemetery in Coeur d'Alene.
Duke, Patty; Kennen Turan (1987). Call Me Anna: The Autobiography of Patty Duke. Bantam Books. p. 231. ISBN 0-553-27205-5.
Patty Duke at IMDbPatty Duke at the TCM Movie DatabasePatty Duke at The Interviews: An Oral History of TelevisionPatty Duke at the Internet Broadway DatabaseWeronika Anna Rosati (Polish pronunciation: [vɛrɔˈɲika ˈrɔsatʲi]; born 9 January 1984) is a Polish actress. She made her acting debut in 2000, and first gained recognition playing Ania in the Polish soap opera M jak miłość (2002–2005, 2018–2020).
In 2016, Buzek starred alongside Lou de Laâge and Agata Kulesza in the drama film The Innocents receiving Polish Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She received another Best Supporting Actress nomination for performance in A Coach's Daughter (2018).
The most recent winner is Emma Stone for her role in Poor Things (2023); she had previously won the award for her role in La La Land (2016). The record for most wins is four, held by Katharine Hepburn. Frances McDormand has won three times, and thirteen other actresses have won the award twice.
