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Alicja Bachleda-Curus Bio

Alicja Bachleda-Curus was born on May 12, 1983. Alicja was born in Mexico and is a Polish actress and singer.

Alicja was born in the Mexican city of Tampico, the daughter of Lidia and Tadeusz Bachleda-Curuś. Alicja spent the first three months of her childhood growing up in Mexico, where her father worked as a geologist. Alicja has an older brother, Tadeusz, who is a pilot. Her uncle is Adam Bachleda-Curuś, former mayor of Zakopane. Her last name "Bachleda" indicates that she is part of one of the biggest and most famous families of Polish highlanders, Gorals in Polish.

Alicja graduated 5th High School in Kraków in the class of general studies with extensive teaching in Spanish and English. She also speaks German fluently. Alicja studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York City and the world-famous film and television school in Los Angeles, the UCLA campus.

As of May 16th 2007 Alicja is a member of the European Film Academy. Alicja is also a member of the Screen Actors Guild. On May 12, 2008, she became an honorable citizen of the city of Tampico, Mexico.

It was announced on September 14, 2009, that Bachleda-Curuś and her partner, Irish actor Colin Farrell, were expecting their first child together. On October 7, 2009, their son, Henry Tadeusz Farrell was born to the couple. The boy was baptized on December 29, 2009 in the Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Roman Catholic Church) in Kraków.

As a 15 year old, Alicja landed a lead role for the legendary Polish director Andrzej Wajda, in his 1999 film Pan Tadeusz. Four years later, she won a role in Na dobre i na złe, Poland's answer to Grey's Anatomy. Alicja then began crossing over into mainstream films outside of Poland, appearing in the German film Sommersturm in 2004. She returned to her birthplace of Mexico to film the 2007 thriller Trade, starring Kevin Kline. The film gave an unflinching look at the world of human trafficking. Critics disparaged the film, but all noticed the charismatic girl who played the kidnapped victim. Alicja then returned to Europe to play a Jewish girl in the historical drama Der geköpfte Hahn, which took place during World War II in Transylvania, Romania. Alicja's next film was 2009's Ondine, a film about an Irish fisherman who thinks he catches a mermaid, where she acts alongside her partner Colin Farrell.

Alicja took part in the Irish Talk Show "Xpose", 19 Feburary 2010 (Season 4, Episode 111) along with Jon Voight, Brendan Gleeson and director Neil Jordan. From May 24th to May 29th, 2010 Alicja will take part as the only woman juror at the 35th Polish Film Festival in Gdynia, Poland.

Alicja is scheduled to star in an upcoming John Jopson movie, The Absinthe Drinkers, set in 19th century Europe. She was cast as Artemisia, a talented young woman painter, who desperately struggles to succeed in the male-dominated art world of 19th century Paris and Florence. The cast includes John Hurt, Tim Roth, Keith Carradine, Peter Facinelli and Jurgen Prochnow. The Absinthe Drinkers is set for principal photography in spring 2010 in Paris, Tuscany, and Poland.