Joanna Pacula
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.
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Movies (47)
Buckle Up
as Evelyn Elger
2023
Break Even
as Agent Crowe
2020
Kill Her, Not Me
as Judith
2013
ICE Agent
as Sheila Hayman
2013
Madoff: Made Off with America
as Ruth Madoff
2013
Stolen Child
as Tatiana
2012
Black Widow
as Olivia
2010
Amazing Racer
as Emily Blair
2009
Chicano Blood
as The Judge
2008
When Nietzsche Wept
as Mathilda
2007
Forget About It
as Talia Nitti
2006
Honor
as Rose Tyrell
2006
The Cutter
as Elizabeth Teller
2005
Dead Easy
as Theresa
2004
Moscow Heat
as Sasha
2004
El padrino: The Latin Godfather
as Jessica Lancaster
2004
Dinocroc
as Paula Kennedy
2004
Lightning: Bolts of Destruction
as Valery Landis
2003
No Place Like Home
as Gretchen Klein
2002
Warrior Angels
as Elizabeth
2002
Cupid's Prey
as Iris Wetherton
2002
The Hit
as Sonia
2001
Crash and Byrnes
as Lissette
2000
The Art of Murder
as Elizabeth Sheridan
1999
Error in Judgment
as Liz
1999
Virus
as Nadia Vinogradova
1999
The White Raven
as Julia Konneman
1998
Sweet Deception
as Risa Gallagher
1998
My Giant
as Lilliana Rotaru
1998
The Haunted Sea
as 1st Mate Bergren
1997
Business for Pleasure
as Anna
1997
In Praise of Older Women
as Marta
1997
Heaven Before I Die
as Selma
1997
The Colony
as Noelle Simms
1996
Captain Nuke and the Bomber Boys
as Brenda Franelli
1995
Last Gasp
as Nora Weeks
1995
Not Like Us
as Anita Clark
1995
Timemaster
as Evelyn
1995
Every Breath
as Lauren
1994
Deep Red
as Monica Quik
1994
The Silence of the Hams
as Lily Wine
1994
Kim Novak Is on the Phone
as Emilia
1994
Normandy: The Great Crusade
as Ursula von Kardoff (voice)
1994
Tombstone
as Kate
1993
Under Investigation
as Abbey Jane Strong
1993
Warlock: The Armageddon
as Paula Dare
1993
Private Lessons II
as Sophie Morgan
1993
