Bartosz Bielenia (born 15 May 1992) is a Polish film and stage actor.
Education
In 2016, Bielenia graduated from AST National Academy of Theatre Arts in Kraków.
Career
He made his debut in 1999 at the Aleksander Wegierko Dramatic Theater in Białystok as the title character in the play The Little Prince.
From 2013 he played in Bagatela Theatre in Krakow, where he debuted with the role of the consumptive seventeen-year-old Ippolit Terentyev in Dostoyevsky's The Idiot. In the years 2014–2017 he performed at the Helena Modrzejewska National Stary Theater in Kraków. Since 2018 he has been performing in the New Theater in Warsaw.
In 2019, Bielenia took on the starring role in Corpus Christi, earning wide acclaim for his performance. He received a Polish Academy Award for Best Actor as well as Best Actor awards at festivals including the El Gouna Film Festival, the Chicago International Film Festival and the Stockholm International Film Festival. In December, he was awarded the Zbigniew Cybulski Award. In 2020, he received the Shooting Star Award for best young European actor, and the European Film Award for best actor.
In 2021, he played Sebastian in the Netflix crime-thriller Prime Time.
Filmography
Film
Television
Awards
2016: Międzynarodowy Festiwal Kina Niezależnego „Off Camera” in Krakowie – Special Mention for an actor in the Polish Feature Film Competition for the film Na granicy 2016: Koszaliński Festiwal Debiutów Filmowych „Młodzi i Film” – nagroda za odkrycie aktorskie za „wyjątkową obecność w filmie, bogate środki wyrazu. Za moc i wiarygodność” za film Na granicy 2019: Zbigniew Cybulski Award 2020: Forbes 30 under 30 recognition 2020: Shooting Star Award
References
External links
Biography @ Culture.PL
Biography - European Film Promotion
Corpus Christi actor Bartosz Bielenia joins thespian A-list after being awarded European Shooting Stars 2020 Biography - Nowy Teatr DAS IMPERIUM TALENT AGENCY ‘Corpus Christi’s Mateusz Pacewicz And Bartosz Bielenia Talk How A Polish Film About Fake Priesthood Became A Universal Story Bartosz Bielenia Bartosz Bielenia named European Shooting Star 2020 Bartosz Bielenia - Polish Film festival LA Bartosz Bielenia - Actor "When you scratch a bit under the surface of the Oscars you find something else…" cineuropa Bartosz Bielenia e-TALENTA AFI Fest ’19 Interview: Bartosz Bielenia and Jan Komasa on Finding the Faith Within Themselves to Make “Corpus Christi”