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Acting
June 22, 1973
Milanówek, Poland
Marcin Grzegorz Dorociński (Polish: [ˈmart͡ɕin dɔrɔˈt͡ɕiɲskʲi]; born 22 June 1973) is a Polish film, television and stage actor. He is known for playing roles in such films as Pitbull(2005), Reverse (2009), Rose (2011), Jack Strong (2014), Hurricane (2018) and Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023), as well as internationally produced TV series Spies of Warsaw (2013) and The Queen's Gambit (2020). Dorociński was born in Milanówek and grew up in a small village, Kłudzienko. His father is a blacksmith, and his mother is a housewife. He has three brothers, all of whom are police officers. He dreamt of becoming a professional football player. However, he was forced to give up the plan after sustaining a significant leg injury. He attended the vocational school in Grodzisk Mazowiecki and obtained a machinist certificate. The first person to notice his talent for acting was his history teacher, who encouraged him to become an actor. In 1993, he enrolled at the Aleksander Zelwerowicz State Theatre Academy. In his second year at the State Theatre Academy, he was cast as Don Rodrigue in a television adaptation of Le Cid directed by Krystyna Janda. After graduating from the Academy in 1997, he struggled to find acting jobs. He worked as a waiter and a bouncer. He took other casual jobs until he was offered a post at the Dramatic Theatre in Warsaw. He has also appeared in several plays at the Ateneum Theatre in Warsaw, where he is currently employed. He played minor roles in multiple television series before his breakthrough came with the role in Patryk Vega's 2005 film Pitbull, which brought him the Zbyszek Cybulski Award. He is a two-time Polish Film Festival award winner for his Reverse (2009) and Rose (2011) roles. The latter also earned him the IFFI Best Actor Award at India's 43rd International Film Festival. In 2012, he appeared in Magdalena Łazarkiewicz's critically acclaimed TV series The Deep End ("Głęboka woda"), which earned him a nomination for Best Actor Award at the Monte Carlo Television Festival. Between 2012 and 2013, Dorociński appeared in a miniseries called Spies of Warsaw, co-produced by the and Telewizja Polska. In 2020, he joined the cast of the Netflix drama miniseries The Queen's Gambit, starring Anya Taylor-Joy. Based on the 1983 novel by Walter Tevis of the same name, the show explores the life of an orphan chess prodigy named Beth Harmon from the age of eight to twenty-two as she struggles with addiction in a quest to become a grandmaster in chess. Dorociński plays Soviet world chess champion Vasily Borgov. He is married to scenic designer Monika Sudół. The couple has a son, Stanisław (born 2006), and a daughter, Janina (born 2008). They also brought up Sudół's son from a previous relationship, Jakub. Description above from the Wikipedia article about Marcin Dorociński, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Stanisław Wokulski
2026

Andrzej Wilk
2025

Łukasz Wilk
2025

Sevastopol - Captain
2025

Jurek
2024

Hayes
2023

Captain
2023

Stanisław 'Witkacy' Witkiewicz
2023

Edward Popielski
2022

Yaroslav the Wise
2022

as Stanisław Wokulski

as Andrzej Wilk

as Łukasz Wilk

as Sevastopol - Captain

as Jurek

as Hayes

as Captain

as Stanisław 'Witkacy' Witkiewicz

as Edward Popielski

as Yaroslav the Wise

as Karl Klingert (voice)

as Andrzej Wilk

as Michał

as Vasily Borgov

as Andrzej

as Voytek

as Wit

as Marcin Schwartz

as Andrzej Piórko

as Jerzy

as Aldek Sałacki

as Cobra
as Narrator

as Sławomir 'Despero' Desperski

as Mirek Dzięcioł

as Igor Ladpolny

as Ladislav Vanék

as Christian Coolidge

as Konrad

as Grzegorz

as Piotr Grodecki

as Mirek

as Jack Strong

as Borys

as Lisowski

as Antoni Pakulski

as Corporal 'Wydra'

as Tomek Niedzielski

as Concert Manager

as Tadeusz
as lektor

as Szymon Kowalczyk

as Wiktor Okulicki

as Tomasz Janicki

as Maciej Kockhański

as 'Terrarium'

as Bronisław

as Kacper

as Kostek

as Jacek Mróz

as Policjant Władysław

as Dominik

as Fabian Sawicki "Fabio"

as Bartek
as teacher Jan

as Krzysztof Tobiasz

as Robert
as Sierżant Rafalski

as oficer UOP

as Angel of Evil

as Mateusz

as Sławomir Desperski "Despero"
as Jakub Skowerski
as Filip

as Sławomir 'Despero' Desperski

as biały rycerz

as Aleksander Buchacz

as Łukasz Wilk

as Julian

as General Niehyd-Ochluj

as Michał Wagner

as Roman

as Arek Bilski

as oficer UOP

as oficer UOP

as Antoni Lulek


as Antoni Lulek

as Kierowca bohatera
as Marek

as "Kukuś"

as Miro

as Student on the street (uncredited)

as Student (uncredited)

as student

as pan młody wychodzący z USC na Starym Mieście
as Viktor

as Zbigniew Cybulski
as Marek Lisowski
