Biography
Anna Próchniak (born 22 December 1988) is a Polish actress who initially trained as a dancer until deciding to switch to acting, graduating from the National Film School in Łódź. Próchniak's first major international film role was in The Innocents (Sundance Film Festival 2016) directed by Anne Fontaine. Her credits include Polish Warsaw 44 (2014), Northern Irish Bad Day for the Cut (Sundance Film Festival 2017), Latvian Oleg (Directors’ Fortnight section of the Festival de Cannes 2019) and Bapti...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Pojedynek
2026
as Anna Grabowska
The year is 1939. The world is falling into chaos. Thousands of Poles, held by the Russians in a former monastery, are subjected to brutal indoctrinat...
The Tattooist’s Son: Journey to Auschwitz
2025
as Self
Filmed in Melbourne, Slovakia, and Poland, this poignant and intimate one-off documentary will follow Gary Sokolov, the only son of Gita and Lali Soko...
Unmoored
2024
as Magdalena
A Swedish TV presenter's well-ordered life unravels when she finally confronts her domineering husband about an accusation against him. Her subsequent...
Making 'The Tattooist of Auschwitz
2024
as Self
Cast and crew discuss the making of Sky Studios' The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Negatyw
2022
as Karol's mother
Karol Weber, born in the mid-1970s, settled with his parents in a small town as a boy of several years. His passion was photography. We meet him at th...
Heart Parade
2022
as Magda
A careerist from Warsaw, who does not like dogs, has to go to Kraków for professional reasons, where she meets a charming widower, his son and their f...
1800 Grams
2019
as Kasia
A touching story about the most important human matters: love, loneliness, sacrifice and courage, around the life of Ewa, a woman who works looking fo...
Oleg
2019
as Malgosia
Oleg, a young Latvian butcher, arrives in Brussels in the hope of getting a better salary in a meat factory. His experience turns short after being be...
Vultures
2018
as Sofia
In an attempt to fix his financial problems, Erik recruits his brother, Atli, to help him import a shipment of cocaine into Iceland. Erik thinks he's...
Breaking the Limits
2017
as Grażyna
Based on true events. In 1980s Poland, Jerzy Górski is a young man who finds the determination to struggle against his drug addiction through athletic...
Bad Day for the Cut
2017
as Kaja
A middle-aged Irish farmer, who still lives at home with his mother, sets off on a mission of revenge when the old lady is murdered.
Bodo
2017
as Nora Ney
The story of Eugeniusz Bodo, a famous Polish actor and singer, who was at the peak of his career in 1930s.
The Innocents
2016
as Zofia
Poland, 1945. Mathilde, a young French Red Cross doctor, is on a mission to help the war survivors. When a nun seeks for her help, she is brought to a...
The Only Way
2014
as Aga
An absurd comedy inspired by George Perec’s novel “A Man Asleep” and “Bartleby, the Scrivener”, a short story by Herman Melville. Adam, a young man li...
Warsaw 44
2014
as Kama
City of Warsaw, Poland, August 1st, 1944. Citizens have experienced inhuman acts of terror and violence during five long years of Nazi occupation. As ...
Lasting
2013
as Karina's Friend
Lasting is an emotional love story about Michał and Karina, a pair of Polish students who meet and fall in love with each other while working summer j...
Shameless
2012
as Irmina
In an incendiary story of love, desire, and betrayal between siblings, the rebellious young Tadek returns to his half-sister Anka’s home in search of ...
Kojot
2012
as girl on the roof
To impress his beloved, Adam forms a punk rock band.
Des rayons et des ombres
N/A
as Lydia Rogers
Jean and Otto, a French press man and a young German Francophile, fight for peace in Europe. Jean's daughter, Corinne, begins a brilliant career as a ...