Jowita Budnik

Jowita Budnik

1973-11-28 Warsaw, Poland 42 Credits

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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Mama

2025

Acting

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

Graduation Heist

2025

as Zosia

5.8
Acting

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

Death Before the Wedding

2025

as Clerk Marzenka

5.1
Acting

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

Wet Monday

2024

as Sylwia

6.0
Acting

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

Justice

2024

as Bartek's Mother

6.6
Acting

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

Sucker's Death

2024

as Dawid's Mother

Acting

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

Be Somebody

2023

as Sylwia

7.0
Acting

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

Mother's Day

2023

as Diplomat

5.8
Acting

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

All Our Fears

2022

as Jadwiga Majewska / Jagoda's mother

5.7
Acting

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

Young Eagles

2022

as Rotmanowa

6.2
Acting

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

For Love

2022

as Marlena Kobara

4.7
Acting

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

The Passage

2021

as Różyłłowa

2.0
Acting

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

Songs About Love

2021

as mama Alicji

6.3
Acting

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

Songs About Love

2021

as Alicja's mother

6.3
Acting

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

In for a Murder

2021

as Ilona Czerwińska

6.2
Acting

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

Brothers

2021

as Małkowa

5.7
Acting

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

All for My Mother

2020

as Irena

5.6
Acting

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

Icarus. The Legend of Mietek Kosz

2019

as Agata Kosz

6.5
Acting

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

Playing Hard

2019

as Matka dziewczynki

6.4
Acting

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?

Who Will Write Our History?

2018

as Rachela Auerbach

7.3
Acting

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

Silent Night

2017

as Ciotka Basia

7.0
Acting

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

Birds Are Singing in Kigali

2017

as Anna Keller

5.4
Acting

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

Call Me Marianna

2015

7.3
Acting

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

Jeziorak

2014

as Podkomisarz Iza Dereń

5.5
Acting

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

The Word

2014

as Majchertowa, matka Janka

4.4
Acting

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

Sophie Seeks 7

2014

as Pielęgniarka

4.6
Acting

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

Papusza

2013

as Bronisłava 'Papusza' Wajsová

7.7
Acting

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

Glasgow

2011

as Nurse

4.0
Acting

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

3.3
Acting

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

Never Say Never

2009

5.5
Acting

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

Strike

2007

6.6
Acting

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

Retrieval

Retrieval

2006

as Gazda's Wife (as Jowita Miondlikowska)

5.9
Acting

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

Saviour Square

2006

as Beata Zielińska

6.9
Acting

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

Saviour Square

2006

Additional Dialogue

6.9

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

My Nikifor

2004

as Cleaning Lady Kowalska

5.9
Acting

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

Portret podwójny

2001

as Asystentka na castingu

Acting

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

The Debt

1999

as dziewczyna z pralni (w napisach: Jowita Miondlikowska)

7.0
Acting

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

East Wind

1993

as Liza

5.5
Acting

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

Po upadku

1990

as córka Ratajczaków

7.5
Acting

A story of high-ranking party members from the 1970s embroiled in political deception.

Masters of the Planet

N/A

Acting

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

N/A

Acting

Wszystko o moich bliskich

N/A

as Alicja

Acting