Jakub Gierszał was born in 1988 in Kraków. He comes from an artistic family. His father, Marek Gierszał, is a theater director working mainly in Germany. He grew up in Hamburg, but at the age of 11 he returned to Poland and settled in Toruń. In 2012, he graduated from the Acting Department at the Academy of Theater Arts in Krakow. He made his theater debut in 2010 as Hamlet in a staging by Jan Peszek, a graduation performance by fourth-year students of the PWST in Krakow. However, he appeared on the screen a year earlier in the role of the rebellious rockman Kazik in the film “Everything I Love” directed by Jacek Borcuch.
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A breakthrough role in the career of Jakub Gierszał. Called by many the greatest actor of his generation
The role of Dominik in the production of Jan Komasa “Suicide Room” brought Jakub Gierszał great and critical acclaim. The film about 18-year-old Dominik was awarded many statuettes. In 2011, in connection with this role, the audience awarded him the Zbyszek Cybulski, Złota Kaczka, as well as a nomination for the Eagle in the category “Best Lead Actor”. At the festival in Berlin, he was hailed as the most promising young European actor. The performance also provided him with numerous offers of interesting roles. But he rejected a lot. He didn’t want to play the role of a neurotic teenager again. In an interview, he explained his decision:
I was very identified with this role and I found out what such identification resulted in. For example, it happened that a girl in crisis gave an ultimatum that she would get out of confinement if she talked to me. I couldn’t take that responsibility. And I was afraid that I would fall into a drawer, and I wanted to test different things.
He got involved in such films as: “Yuma”, “Long”, “Córki dancingu”, “Chyłka”, “Spanish”, “Consent”, “Spoor”, and in 2017 he was again nominated for the Eagle for the best leading male role in Łukasz Palkowski’s The Best. Gierszał also played in several foreign productions, among others In: the German-language “Dark World”, “The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs”, also the American “Dracula: History Untold”. After the premiere of the last of them, in an interview with Anna Tatarska, according to the website, he said:
It was an interesting experience for me to see such a seventy-million-dollar plan – and they still complained about having a small budget. Working on such a professionally prepared, big film, even if it’s just an episode, is always an adventure, fun. But I’d be wrong if I claimed that’s the only reason. It is known that in this industry talent is not enough, you have to be lucky, make contacts, meet people.
Recently, a new film with Jakub Gierszał and directed by Jan Holoubek had its premiere. “Doppelgänger. Doppelgänger” is a story about James Bond from the People’s Republic of Poland, i.e. Jerzy Kaczmarek, whose actor was.
Jakub Gierszał is very protective of his privacy. The actor avoids being in the spotlight
The actor is not active on social media and keeps his private life private. So we will not find his official Instagram or Facebook profile. In interviews given by 35-year-old Jakub Gierszał, he usually talks about the ones he just took part in. According to the website, the actor has been in a relationship with Adela Chapońkowska for almost 10 years. The woman is several years older than him and also works in the film industry and is also Gierszał’s agent.
Source: Gazeta
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