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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
December 30, 1957
Place of Birth
Tomaszów Lubelski, Lubelskie, Poland
Also Known As
- Joanna Pacuła
- Ioana Pacula
- J. Pacula
- Dzhoanna Pakula
- یوانا پاچولا
Joanna Pacula
1.8 Popularity
Biography
Joanna Pacula (born January 2, 1957) is a Polish actress. Pacula joined Warsaw Dramatic Theatre where she acted until 1981. She started her career playing in productions of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Othello and As You Like It. She also found work in a handful of films, including Krzysztof Zanussi's Barwy ochronne/Camouflage (1977). In 1981, Pacula was caught in Paris when communist authorities in Poland declared martial law. In 1982 she eventually emigrated to the U.S. where she has specialized in playing European temptresses since her feature debut opposite William Hurt in Gorky Park (1983). She played the part of the exotic beauty in numerous American TV series and movies, including the Holocaust drama Escape From Sobibor (CBS, 1987), The Kiss (1988), E.A.R.T.H. Force (CBS, 1990), and the TV series, The Colony (ABC, 1996). She was featured in Marked for Death (1990) as an expert on Jamaican voodoo and gangs; in the Italian erotic thriller Husbands And Lovers (1992) as a free spirited adultress (which featured a rather controversial bare-bottom spanking scene, a first in a mainstream film); Tombstone (1993) as Doc Holliday's lover, Kate (also known as Big Nose Kate and Mary Catherine Haroney, born November 7, 1850); in The Haunted Sea (1997); and in the movie Virus (1999), playing a Russian scientist. She currently resides in Southern California. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joanna Pacula, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
2.0
Evelyn Elger
Buckle Up
2023
5.4
Agent Crowe
Break Even
2020
0.0
Judith
Kill Her, Not Me
2013
3.8
Sheila Hayman
ICE Agent
2013
🎬
4.7
Ruth Madoff
Madoff: Made Off with America
2013
5.1
Tatiana
Stolen Child
2012
0.0
Olivia
Black Widow
2010
6.0
Emily Blair
Amazing Racer
2009
2.0
The Judge
Chicano Blood
2008
6.2
Mathilda
When Nietzsche Wept
2007
Credits
Buckle Up
as Evelyn Elger
2023
2.0
Break Even
as Agent Crowe
2020
5.4
Kill Her, Not Me
as Judith
2013
0.0
ICE Agent
as Sheila Hayman
2013
3.8
🎬
Madoff: Made Off with America
as Ruth Madoff
2013
4.7
Stolen Child
as Tatiana
2012
5.1
Black Widow
as Olivia
2010
0.0
Amazing Racer
as Emily Blair
2009
6.0
Chicano Blood
as The Judge
2008
2.0
When Nietzsche Wept
as Mathilda
2007
6.2
Forget About It
as Talia Nitti
2006
4.9
Honor
as Rose Tyrell
2006
3.8
The Cutter
as Elizabeth Teller
2005
5.6
Bones
as Drina Mirga
2005
8.2
Dead Easy
as Theresa
2004
3.5
Moscow Heat
as Sasha
2004
2.6
El padrino: The Latin Godfather
as Jessica Lancaster
2004
6.9
Dinocroc
as Paula Kennedy
2004
3.9
Lightning: Bolts of Destruction
as Valery Landis
2003
4.5
No Place Like Home
as Gretchen Klein
2002
4.0
Warrior Angels
as Elizabeth
2002
3.8
Monk
as Leyla Zlatavich
2002
8.0
Cupid's Prey
as Iris Wetherton
2002
4.0
The Hit
as Sonia
2001
0.0
Crash and Byrnes
as Lissette
2000
6.3
Brutally Normal
as Gogi
2000
0.0
The Art of Murder
as Elizabeth Sheridan
1999
2.8
Error in Judgment
as Liz
1999
2.7
Virus
as Nadia Vinogradova
1999
5.4
The White Raven
as Julia Konneman
1998
3.2
Sweet Deception
as Risa Gallagher
1998
6.0
My Giant
as Lilliana Rotaru
1998
5.3
The Haunted Sea
as 1st Mate Bergren
1997
2.2
Business for Pleasure
as Anna
1997
1.0
In Praise of Older Women
as Marta
1997
5.4
Heaven Before I Die
as Selma
1997
4.0
The Colony
as Noelle Simms
1996
6.0
Captain Nuke and the Bomber Boys
as Brenda Franelli
1995
7.4
Last Gasp
as Nora Weeks
1995
4.8
Not Like Us
as Anita Clark
1995
3.4
Timemaster
as Evelyn
1995
3.9
Every Breath
as Lauren
1994
3.0
Deep Red
as Monica Quik
1994
4.0
The Silence of the Hams
as Lily Wine
1994
4.9
Kim Novak Is on the Phone
as Emilia
1994
0.0
Normandy: The Great Crusade
as Ursula von Kardoff (voice)
1994
10.0
Tombstone
as Kate
1993
7.6
Under Investigation
as Abbey Jane Strong
1993
1.2
Warlock: The Armageddon
as Paula Dare
1993
5.3
Private Lessons II
as Sophie Morgan
1993
2.6
Condition: Critical
as Dr. Lena Poole
1992
1.0
Black Ice
as Vanessa
1992
4.4
Body Puzzle
as Tracy Grant
1992
5.1
Eyes of the Beholder
as Diana Carlyle
1992
5.3
Husbands and Lovers
as Alina
1991
6.5
The Good Policeman
1991
0.0
Marked for Death
as Leslie
1990
6.1
E.A.R.T.H. Force
as Diana Randall
1990
6.0
Commando Earth Force
as Diana Randall
1990
0.0
Breaking Point
as Anna / Diana
1989
4.7
Options
as Princess Nicole
1989
2.0
The Kiss
as Felice Dunbar
1988
5.7
Sweet Lies
as Joëlle
1987
4.8
Escape from Sobibor
as Luka
1987
7.2
Death Before Dishonor
as Elli
1987
4.6
Crossings
as Marissa Freilich
1986
4.2
Not Quite Paradise
as Gila
1985
4.8
Gorky Park
as Irina
1983
6.3
Życie Kamila Kuranta
as Elwira
1983
0.0
🎬
Yokohama
1982
0.0
Jan Serce
as Gabriela 'Gabi' Metelska
1982
6.0
Tender Spots
as Pielęgniarka
1981
7.2
Przyjaciele
as Krystyna
1981
7.0
Dom
as Ewa Szymosiuk
1980
7.0
Last Night of Love
as Lena Gheorghiu
1980
5.3
Puppy Love
as Jola Morawiecka "Sarna"
1980
0.0
🎬
Córka albo syn
as Irena
1979
0.0
You Will Not Have Peace
as Bożena Kaczmarek
1978
7.0
Camouflage
as Student
1977
6.6
Akcja pod Arsenałem
as Duska Bytnar
1977
6.6
Calling 07
as prostytutka pracująca dla Walaska
1976
7.4