Biography
Jowita Budnik (née Miondlikowska; born 28 November 1973) is a Polish actress. Budnik was born in Warsaw and studied at the University of Warsaw. She made her film debut in 1985 at the age of 11 in Radosław Piwowarski's Kochankowie mojej mamy ("My Mom's Lovers"). She has appeared in such films as Papusza, Plac Zbawiciela and Jeziorak as well as the television series M jak miłość and W labiryncie. In 2017, she received Best Actress Award at the Chicago International Film Festival for her role in t...
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Complete Filmography
Mama
2025
After many years working far from home, Mila is forced to temporarily leave her seaside mansion—and her secret romance—to return to her family in a re...

Graduation Heist
2025
as Zosia
Kapsel is a high school senior party animal who values his close friends more than his final exams. When he realizes that finishing high school also...

Death Before the Wedding
2025
as Clerk Marzenka
When Maja brings her fiancé home, her traditional parents must overcome their cultural biases amidst a crisis at their dairy farm. Can love find a way...

Wet Monday
2024
as Sylwia
Fifteen-year-old Klara is raped by a masked boy during Wet Monday. A year later, just before the first anniversary of the incident, she becomes paraly...

Justice
2024
as Bartek's Mother
A young detective seeks the help of a discharged police officer, giving him the chance to reclaim his old life in exchange for solving a bank raid cas...

Sucker's Death
2024
as Dawid's Mother
A small town somewhere in Poland. "Małolat", a member of a nationalist militia, is blackmailed into planting a bomb at an LGBT rally in Warsaw. Howeve...

Be Somebody
2023
as Sylwia
Together with his family, Wiktor moves into a recently bought flat, which turns out to have belonged to Lech Wałęsa, a symbol of freedom and a legend ...

Mother's Day
2023
as Diplomat
Nina, a former NATO special operations agent living in hiding, has to use all her deadly skills to rescue her son who has been kidnapped by ruthless g...

All Our Fears
2022
as Jadwiga Majewska / Jagoda's mother
Daniel is respected by his village community as long as he bravely supports the fight for their affairs. He is in love with the boy next door, Olek, w...

Young Eagles
2022
as Rotmanowa
Grodno, the eastern border of pre-war Poland. On September 1, 1939, German planes bomb the city. One of the bombs hits the school of Leoś, Ewelina and...

For Love
2022
as Marlena Kobara
Marlena struggles with a serious marital crisis due to the alcohol addiction of her husband, Zbigniew. Via the Internet she meets Bruno, a Senegalese,...

The Passage
2021
as Różyłłowa
A storm causes damage to a bridge that connects the world of the living with the world of the dead. For this reason, the information about Maria’s own...

Songs About Love
2021
as mama Alicji
Robert, a young musician living in the shadow of his successful father, rebels against his father’s authority. On meeting a novice small-town vocalist...

Songs About Love
2021
as Alicja's mother
Robert, a young musician living in the shadow of his successful father, rebels against his father’s authority. On meeting a novice small-town vocalist...

In for a Murder
2021
as Ilona Czerwińska
A stay-at-home mom and avid reader of crime stories discovers the deepest secrets of a small town's residents while investigating a woman's murder.

Brothers
2021
as Małkowa
A village in Mazowsze, 1943. Two teenage boys, Janek and Staszek, find two young Jews hiding on a farm. They soon realize that the boys, Abram and Cha...

All for My Mother
2020
as Irena
Olka is seventeen years old. For years, she had been looking for her mother. Her constant escapes from the orphanage landed her in a reformatory. She ...

Icarus. The Legend of Mietek Kosz
2019
as Agata Kosz
Inspired by true events, a story of a blind grand piano genius. As a child Mietek loses his sight. His mother places him in the care of the nuns in La...

Playing Hard
2019
as Matka dziewczynki
Stories of three women struggling with alcohol. Dorota is a great prosecutor. Using her immunity, she tries to avoid responsibility for her offenses c...

Who Will Write Our History?
2018
as Rachela Auerbach
Documentary about a group of Jews, who collected and hid a lot of stories and documents about everyday jewish life in the Warsaw Getto.

Silent Night
2017
as Ciotka Basia
Adam unexpectedly visits his family house at Christmas after a few years of working abroad. No family member knows about his secret plans and the real...

Birds Are Singing in Kigali
2017
as Anna Keller
We meet ornithologist Anna in 1994 just as genocide is raging in Rwanda, perpetrated by the majority Hutus against the Tutsis. Anna manages to save th...

Call Me Marianna
2015
Her ex-wife won’t meet her. Her daughter rejects her. Her mother still calls her “son.” As Marianna transitions from male to female, she is abandoned ...

Jeziorak
2014
as Podkomisarz Iza Dereń
A provincial police unit raids a forest moonshine operation but is ambushed, leaving one officer wounded and the bootlegger at large, while simultaneo...

The Word
2014
as Majchertowa, matka Janka
Days before the end of the school year, Liliana gives Janek an ultimatum, giving him 24 hours to either prove his love for her or forget about her alt...

Sophie Seeks 7
2014
as Pielęgniarka
After breaking up with her cheating boyfriend, a 30-year-old woman reconnects with six of her exes while trying to find the love of her life.

Papusza
2013
as Bronisłava 'Papusza' Wajsová
The rise and fall of the most distinguished Polish-Gypsy poetess Bronislawa Wajs, widely known as Papusza, and her relationship with her discoverer, w...

Glasgow
2011
as Nurse
Damian, a young boy raised by a single mother, believes that his father is a famous footballer playing for Glasgow Celtic F.C. His dream is to visit h...
7 Minutes
2010
as Laboratory Worker
Seven minutes - sweet moment that can change lives forever. History of several autumn, although extremely hot days in the life of Piotr Winkler, who i...

Never Say Never
2009
Thirty-year-old Ama is a brilliant, ice-cold headhunter for global corporations whose polished single life in Warsaw conceals her deep longing to beco...

Strike
2007
A nearly illiterate woman becomes one of the founders of Poland's Solidarity union.

Retrieval
2006
as Gazda's Wife (as Jowita Miondlikowska)
19 year old Wojtek lives in a poverty stricken Polish town. He is in love with an older woman, an illegal emigrant from Ukraine. He boxes in illegal m...

Saviour Square
2006
as Beata Zielińska
A story of a married couple with two children, whose housing problems, the man's infidelity and the woman's fragility lead the family to destruction.

Saviour Square
2006
Additional Dialogue
A story of a married couple with two children, whose housing problems, the man's infidelity and the woman's fragility lead the family to destruction.

My Nikifor
2004
as Cleaning Lady Kowalska
In 1960s Krynica, veteran artist Włosiński’s orderly life is disrupted when local outsider Nikifor - deaf, mute, and dismissed as a harmless eccentric...

Portret podwójny
2001
as Asystentka na castingu
A picture of the broken world at the end of the century. A couple of contemporary young Polish intellectuals, artistic souls. They are sensitive beyon...

The Debt
1999
as dziewczyna z pralni (w napisach: Jowita Miondlikowska)
Based on true events, the movie tells the story of two men who want to start a scooter business but don't have the required collateral for a bank loan...

East Wind
1993
as Liza
The true story of General Smyslovsky and the anti-Communist 1st Russian National Army receiving shelter in Liechtenstein in 1945 and successfully resi...

Po upadku
1990
as córka Ratajczaków
A story of high-ranking party members from the 1970s embroiled in political deception.
Masters of the Planet
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On the day before the wedding, the groom's parents visit the bride's parents. They all quickly discover that their spouses are not their soulmates. As...
Przez ścianę
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Wszystko o moich bliskich
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as Alicja