Edward Linde-Lubaszenko

Edward Linde-Lubaszenko (born 23 August 1939) is a Polish actor.

Edward Linde-Lubaszenko
Edward Linde-Lubaszenko, 2017
Born	(1939-08-23) August 23, 1939 (age 86) Białystok, Poland
Alma mater	AST National Academy of Theatre Arts in Kraków
Occupation	actor

Biography

His father, Julian Linde, was a German of Swedish descent, who escaped from Białystok in 1939.^[1] Edward's mother, who was an ethnic Pole, refused to follow him to Germany. She met Mikołaj Lubaszenko, a Soviet officer with whom she moved to Arkhangelsk, where they got married. The young actor was raised as Edward Lubaszenko by his mother and her husband. He found that he was Linde's son when he was about 18 years old.^[1] He changed his name to Edward Linde-Lubaszenko in 1991.

Linde-Lubaszenko had his debut in 1964 at the Polish Theatre in Wrocław. In the 1960s he studied medicine but eventually graduated from Ludwik Solski Academy for the Dramatic Arts in Kraków in 1977.

Edward Linde-Lubaszenko was married four times.^[2] He is the father of the Polish actor Olaf Lubaszenko and Beata Linde-Lubaszenko.