Julia Krynke


Julia Krynke is a multilingual Polish actress, voice over artist and trained classical musician based in London, UK. She is known in the UK for her roles in TV series Spooks, Holby City and The Street, and has had a successful career in cinema, theatre and TV in Germany, Poland and Ireland. She is fluent in Polish, English and German.

Education

Krynke is a graduate of the Ludwik Solski Academy for the Dramatic Arts in Wroclaw, Poland and the Centre for Theatre Practices Gardzienice, Poland and has attended the Michael Chekhov Studio London, UK. She studied Grand Piano and Flute at the State Music School in Opole, Poland.

Career

Julia Krynke has worked extensively in film, television and theatre in Poland, Germany, Ireland, and the UK.
Soon after the completion of her studies, Krynke made her big-screen debut playing one of the lead roles in the much-acclaimed Distant Lights, directed by Hans-Christian Schmid. The film received many awards – including the FIPRESCI prize and the German Critics' Association Award – and was nominated for the Golden Bear at The Berlin Film Festival.
From 2003 to 2008, Krynke went on to appear in a number of popular Polish television series whilst performing full-time in the Teatr Polski, Teatr Nowy, Teatr Nowy and Scena in Vitro.
In 2006, Krynke made a well-received debut on the Irish stage as Monica in Dermot Bolger's The Townlands of Brazil.
In 2007, Krynke appeared regularly as Mela in the Irish television series The English Class.
In 2008, Krynke moved to London to take classes at the Michael Chekhov Studio. She has been based in London since.
From 2009 onwards, Krynke took a series of further English-speaking parts, most notable of which was that of Olenka in the Bafta award-winning BBC drama series The Street. She also played Bibi Saparova in season eight of Spooks.
During the same period, Krynke also featured in televised roles in Germany, including that of Olga Sarpei in the ZDF series Leipzig Homicide.
In 2012, Krynke took a lead televised role – Milena Kintrup – in the German-Austrian-Swiss series :de:Matthias_Tiefenbacher|Tatort: Das Wunder von Wolbeck.
In 2013, Polish audiences could watch her as Mira Ziemska in the television series Medics and she also appeared in a BBC TV series Casualty as Ania.
In 2014, Krynke featured in season 2 of Line of Duty as Kasia.
2015 saw Krynke portray Julia Katrin Vesik in the British TV series DCI Banks and Agnieszka in the German television movie Der Pfarrer und das Mädchen. In the same year she also appeared in The Avengers: .
In 2016, Krynke joined BBC series The A Word as Maya Petrenko in season 1, starred with Nabil Elouahabi in the independent British-Jordanian-Iranian feature film Undocument and featured as Natascha Karpenko in a German crime TV series Ein starkes Team: Tödliche Botschaft.
Krynke works regularly with European independent film-makers. She starred in German director's Saschko Frey's Echos, winner of the Friedrich-Wilhelm Murnau Kurzfilmpreis. She made the experimental noir Muse with Italian film-maker Massimo Salvato and has collaborated with British directors Jessica Townsend, Esther Richardson and Nick Cohen and Kyla Simone Bruce.
Krynke has won theatrical prizes in her native Poland. She was the first contestant ever to receive all three major awards in one year at 20th Festival of Theatre Schools in 2002: the Best Actor Award, Audience Award and Critics' Award for the role of Gileta in the play The Topsy-Turvy Princess. Krynke was also given Second Prize in the Ogolnopolski Przeglad Piosenki Aktorskiej in Zamosc.

Filmography

Awards and honours