Małgorzata Dobrowolska (born 2 June 1958, in Kamienna Góra), known as Gosia Dobrowolska, is a Polish-born Australian actress.

Gosia Dobrowolska
Born
Malgorzata Dobrowlska

(1958-06-02) June 2, 1958 (age 66)
OccupationActress

Biography

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She has one brother, Janusz Dobrowolski, who also made a minor appearance in the 1984 film, Silver City.

After moving to Australia in the 1980s, Dobrowolska's first Australian film was Silver City, where she played a Polish immigrant.[1]

Paul Cox specifically wrote the 1991 film A Woman's Tale for Sheila Florance. Directed by Cox, Dobrowolska plays a nurse who befriends an elderly woman (Florance) dying of cancer.

Filmography

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Film

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Year Film Role Type
1981 Dreszcze (aka Shivers) Malgosia Feature film
1984 Silver City Nina Feature film
1986 The Surfer Gina Feature film
1987 Around the World in 80 Ways Nurse Ophelia Cox Feature film
1988 Phobia Renata Simmons Feature film
1990 Golden Braid Terese Feature film
1991 A Woman's Tale Anna Feature film
1992 The Nun and the Bandit Zenaida Feature film
1992 Careful Zenaida Feature film
1992 Resistance Mrs. Wilson Feature film
1993 The Custodian Josie Feature film
1993 Touch Me Sarah Film short
1994 Exile Midwife Feature film
1996 Lust and Revenge Cecilia Applebaum Feature film
1999 A Week in the Life of a Man (aka Tydzien z zycia mezcyzny) Anna Borowski Feature film
2005 Doskonale popoludine Maria Mielczarek Feature film
2009 Defect Marie Film short
2011 On Borrowed Time Herself Feature film documentary
2014 Obywatel Younger Jan's Mother Feature film

Television

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Year Film Role Type
1984 City West Nada Stankovic TV series, 7 episodes
1984 The Mike Walsh Show Guest - Herself TV series, 1 episode
1984 Special Squad TV series, 1 episode
1987 Rafferty's Rules Maz TV series, 1 episode
1987 I've Come About the Suicide Genevieve Lawson TV film
1987 Willing and Abel TV series, 1 episode
1988 Fields of Fire II Basia TV miniseries, 2 episodes
1988; 1994 The Midday Show Herself (with John Dingwall) TV series, 1 episode
1988-89 A Country Practice Marianna Kubik TV series, 5 episodes
1989 Fields of Fire III Basia TV miniseries, 2 episodes
1990 Mission: Impossible Alina TV series, Season 2, episode 7: "Target Earth"
1990 Sunday Guest TV series, 1 episode
1991 The Great Air Race (aka Half A World Away) Thea Rasche TV miniseries, 2 episodes
1991 Tonight Live with Steve Vizard Guest TV series, 1 episode
1992 G.P. Eve Walenska TV series, 1 episode
1992 Kevin Rampenbacker and the Electric Kettle TV film
1992 Big Ideas Anna Novak TV film
1993 Seven Deadly Sins TV series, episode: Greed
1994 Midday with Derryn Hinch Guest TV series, 1 episode
1994 Review Guest Presenter TV series, 1 episode
1995 English at Work Herself TV series, 1 episode: "Continence"
1995 Banjo Paterson's The Man from Snowy River (aka Snowy River: The McGregor Saga) Svetlana Koromanskaya TV series, 1 episode
1995 Spellbinder TV series, 1 episode
1996 Erotic Tales TV series, 1 episode
1997 The Hidden Dimension Claire Short film documentary
1997 Murder Call Vida Kristov TV series, 1 episode
1998 Never Tell Me Never Nurse Anne TV film
1999; 2006 All Saints Greta Patterson / Vera / Lillian Gehler TV series, 3 episodes
1999 The Movie Show Guest TV series, 1 episode
2011 East West 101 Yelena TV series, 1 episode
2020 The End Mrs. Bogdanowicz TV series, 3 episodes
2020 The Secrets She Keeps Anna Nowak TV series, 1 episode

Stage

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Year Title Role Company
1986 Hamlet Space Theatre, Adelaide, Sydney Opera House
1986 The Marriage Space Theatre, Adelaide, Sydney Opera House
1987 The Poet Assassinated The Performance Space, Sydney
1989 Karamazov Crossroads Theatre, Sydney
1995 Tongue of Stone
1996 Pentecost Wharf Theatre, Sydney
1997 The Stronger / Grushenka Director Belvoir Street Theatre
1997 The Promised Land : Tinsel and Ashes / Feast Bondi Pavilion
2004 Stone Sleeper Lennox Theatre, Parramatta

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Sources

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  • Stratton, D. (1990) The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan: Sydney.

References

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  1. ^ Stratton, pp. 49–53.
  2. ^ "AusStage". ausstage.edu.au. Retrieved 29 October 2024.
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