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Krystyna Janda

1952 - Today

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Krystyna Jolanta Janda (born 18 December 1952) is a Polish film and theater actress best known internationally for playing leading roles in several films by Polish director Andrzej Wajda, including Man of Marble (Człowiek z marmuru, 1976) and Man of Iron (Człowiek z żelaza, 1981). In 1981, Janda played in the Academy Award-winning movie Mephisto. In 1982, she played the lead character in Ryszard Bugajski's film Przesłuchanie (Interrogation), which first premiered seven years later in 1989, following the collapse of communism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Krystyna Janda has received more than 191,917 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Krystyna Janda is the 2,066th most popular actor (up from 2,541st in 2019), the 593rd most popular biography from Poland (up from 664th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Polish Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 190k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.97

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Krystyna Jandas by language

Over the past year Krystyna Janda has had the most page views in the with 101,875 views, followed by English (47,691), and Russian (30,929). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Russian (347.79%), Greek (255.45%), and English (95.99%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Krystyna Janda ranks 2,066 out of 13,578. Before her are Joan Hickson, Rachel Kempson, Kristen Stewart, Song Joong-ki, Edith González, and Jim Beaver. After her are Tony Danza, Benjamin Bratt, Sonja Ziemann, Gérard Blain, Amy Irving, and Amanda Seyfried.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Krystyna Janda ranks 176. Before her are Ian Hill, Semyon Bychkov, David Knopfler, Alfre Woodard, Ulrich Seidl, and Péter Erdő. After her are Michael Cunningham, Vasco Rossi, Freddy Maertens, Harold Faltermeyer, Vinnie Vincent, and Ricardo Martinelli.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Krystyna Janda ranks 593 out of 1,694. Before her are Abraham Robinson (1918), Henryk Dembiński (1791), Mieczysław Rakowski (1926), Franceska Mann (1917), Otto Freundlich (1878), and Alfred Józef Potocki (1817). After her are Krzysztof Wielicki (1950), Leo White (1882), Karol Lipiński (1790), Andrzej Munk (1921), Zbigniew Religa (1938), and Hans Hellmut Kirst (1914).

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Among ACTORS In Poland

Among actors born in Poland, Krystyna Janda ranks 17. Before her are Paul Wegener (1874), Beata Tyszkiewicz (1938), Janusz Gajos (1939), Izabella Scorupco (1970), Peter van Eyck (1911), and Bella Darvi (1928). After her are Leo White (1882), Peter Berling (1934), Franciszek Pieczka (1928), Heinrich George (1893), Bernhard Goetzke (1884), and Helena Modjeska (1840).

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Television and Movie Roles

Mephisto
Barbara Bruckner
A German stage actor finds unexpected success and mixed blessings in the popularity of his performance in a Faustian play as the Nazis take power in pre-WWII Germany. As his associates and friends flee or are ground under by the Nazi terror, the popularity of his character supercedes his own existence until he finds that his best performance is keeping up appearances for his Nazi patrons.
Feb 11o 19817.197 / 10
Decalogue II
Dorota Geller
Dorota Geller, a married woman, faces a dilemma involving her sick husband's prognosis. Her husband's doctor, who believes in God, sweared about it in vain.
Sep 6o 19897.341 / 10
Man of Marble
Agnieszka
A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell out of favor and disappeared.
Feb 25o 19777.022 / 10