Danuta Szaflarska

Danuta Szaflarska
Danuta Szaflarska
Born	(1915-02-06)6 February 1915 Kosarzyska, Piwniczna-Zdrój, Galicia, Austria-Hungary
Died	19 February 2017(2017-02-19) (aged 102) Warsaw, Poland
Occupation	actress
Years active	1939–2016
Spouse(s)	Jan Ekier (divorced) Janusz Kilański (divorced)
Children	2

Danuta Szaflarska (Polish pronunciation: [daˈnuta ʂafˈlaɾska]; 6 February 1915 – 19 February 2017) was a Polish film and stage actress. In 2008 she was awarded the Złota Kaczka for the best Polish actress of the century. Szaflarska participated in the Warsaw Uprising as a liaison. Szaflarska was awarded the Order of Polonia Restituta, Commander's Cross and Commander's Cross with Star, one of Poland's highest Orders and Gold Medal of Gloria Artis (2007).^[1][2][3]

Szaflarska was born in Kosarzyska, Piwniczna-Zdrój (Galicia, Austria-Hungary, now Poland). She married her first husband, Jan Ekier, a pianist, in 1942. They had one daughter, Maria. The pair divorced. Her second husband, Janusz Kilański, was a radio announcer. He was the father of Szaflarska's second daughter, Agnieszka. Kilański and Szaflarska also divorced.^[4] Szaflarska turned 100 in February 2015.^[5] She was a regular player of Teatr Rozmaitości in Warsaw, specializing in modern and progressive drama, and in her later years (till 2016) appeared in four different plays at the theatre.^[6]

• List of centenarians (actors, filmmakers and entertainers)

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• Danuta Szaflarska at IMDb
• Danuta Szaflarska at the Filmpolski.pl (in Polish).