Jacek Koman

Jacek Koman (born 15 August 1956) is a Polish actor and singer.

Jacek Koman
Koman in 2019
Born	(1956-08-15) 15 August 1956 (age 68) Bielsko-Biała, Poland
Alma mater	National Film School in Łódź
Occupation(s)	Actor, singer
Years active	1978–present
Spouse	Catherine McClements ​ ​ (m. 1990)​
Children	2

Early life

Koman was born in Bielsko-Biała, Poland, to actors Halina Koman (née Dobrowolska; born 3 January 1923^[1]) and Adam Koman (24 December 1922 – 1 December 2005^[1]), and came to Australia in 1982 with his brother Tomek. They landed in Perth before heading over to Melbourne, where he began acting again.^[2]

Koman attended the National Film School in Łódź, where he studied acting alongside Małgorzata Potocka, Andrzej Szczytko and Piotr Skiba (1974–78).

Career

Acting

Koman's first professional stage appearance was as Lysander in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream in Bielsko-Biała in 1978.^[3]

He has worked with partner Catherine McClements a number of times, including on films Redheads and Floodhouse, an episode of Rush in 2009, and in theatre productions Angels in America (1994), The Blind Giant is Dancing (1995), Macbeth (2003) and Cruel and Tender (2005).

In 2011, Koman was nominated for an AACTA award for his guest performance in Spirited.^[4] In 2012, he appeared as 'The Great Hypno' in the Australian television series Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries.

In 2013, he returned to the stage after an eight-year absence, in Tom Holloway's translation of Durrenmatt's Dance of Death at the Malthouse Theatre in Melbourne.

Koman was announced as part of the cast for Disney Plus series Last Days of the Space Age.^[5]

In Conclave, he appears as Archbishop Woźniak, the Prefect of the Papal Household and the late pope's confidant.

Music

Koman is also the lead singer^[6] of VulgarGrad,^[7] a Melbourne band who play Russian-style music and who formed in 2004.

Personal life

Koman met his partner, Australian actress Catherine McClements, in the late 1980s at the Anthill Theatre in Melbourne. They have two children together – Clementine Coco (born July 2001) and Quincy (born May 2007).

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref
2024	Conclave	Archbishop Woźniak
2023	Soulcatcher	Minister Jan Zaremba		[8]
	Tonight You're Sleeping With Me	Nina's Father
2022	Talk to Me	Burke Spirit
	Niebezpieczni dżentelmeni	Vladimir Lenin
	Wiarolom	Francisz
2020	The Hater	Robert Karsucki
2019	Icarus. The Legend of Mietek Kosz	Stanislaw Kosz
	Judy and Punch	Singer
2018	Krew Boga	Geowold
2017	Breath	Karl Loon
	Jungle	Moni Ghinsberg
2016	The Death and Life of Otto Bloom	Miroslaw Kotok
2015	Sucker	Riley
	Disco Polo	Katiusza
	Ziarno Prawdy	Monk
2014	Son of a Gun	Sam Lennox
2013	The Great Gatsby	Uncredited
2013	Shopping	Benny
2011	Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance	Terrokov
	The Hunter	Middleman
2010	Kołysanka	Postman
2009	Kochaj i tancz	Jan Kettler
2008	Defiance	Konstanty 'Kościk' Kozłowski
	Australia	Ivan
	The Funk	Narrator	Short film
2007	Romulus, My Father	Vacek
2006	Children of Men	Tomasz
2004	Floodhouse	Anselm	Short film
2003	Horseplay	Roman
2001	Moulin Rouge!	The Unconscious Argentinean[a]
1999	117	Man	Short film
1998	The Sound of One Hand Clapping	Picotti
1997	The Wedding Party	Raoul
1996	What I Have Written	Jeremy Fliszar
1994	Paperback Romance (aka Lucky Break)	Det Yuri Borodinoff
1992	Redheads	Lawyer
1991	Holidays on the River Yarra	Mercenary
1990	Hunting	Bergman's Butler

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref
2024	Last Days of the Space Age	Yvgeny	8 episodes	[10]
	Prosper	Eli Slowik	8 episodes	[11]
2023	Faraway Downs	Ivan	6 episodes	[12]
	The Teacher	Bogdan Zawadzki 'Captain'	5 episodes
	Szum. Kryminal analogowy	Leader	6 episodes (podcast series)
2021	Receptura	Jan Wedel	6 episodes
	Ms Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries	Alexander Kowalski	2 episodes
	Mr Inbetween	Remy	1 episode
2016-21	Jack Irish	Orton	13 episodes	[13]
2018-21	The Defence	Harry McVay	14 episodes
2020	The Woods	Dawid	4 episodes
	Maly zgon	Stanislaw	9 episodes
2017-20	Mustangs FC	Danny	37 episodes	[14]
2019	Reef Break	General Kivani	1 episode
	Ojciec Mateusz	Eryk Was	1 episode
2018	Tidelands	Gregori Stolin	6 episodes
	Wanted	Leon	1 episode
	Rake	Jakub	8 episodes	[15][16]
	Wrong Kind of Black	Rudi	4 episodes
2016-17	Doctor Doctor	Trevor	4 episodes	[17]
2017	The Warriors	Fast Freddy	3 episodes
	Seven Types of Ambiguity	Gideon	1 episode
2017	Oddlands	Animal	TV movie
2015	Prokurator	Kazimierz Proch	10 episodes
2012-14	Lekarze	Leon	60 episodes
2014	Wataha	Robert Korda	3 episodes
2013	Television Theater	Mr Philips	1 episode
	The Doctor Blake Mysteries	Miroslav Gorski	1 episode
	Top of the Lake	Wolfgang Zanic	2 episodes
2012	Hotel 52	Wiktor Prus	10 episodes
	Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries	Mr Merton	1 episode
2011	Spirited	Potter	4 episodes
	East West 101	Roman	2 episodes	[18]
	Small Time Gangster	Artie	2 episodes
2010	Ratownicy	Piotr	12 episodes
	City Homicide	Andro	1 episode
	Usta Usta	Pawel	1 episode
2009	Rush	Anton	1 episode
2008	Waking the Dead	Jovan	2 episodes
2005-07	The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant	Wanjon	2 episodes
2006	Tsunami: The Aftermath	Peer	2 episodes
	Tripping Over	Magnus	6 episodes
	HG Wells' War With the World	Maxim Gorky	TV movie
2005	Life	Franco	TV movie
2003	MDA	Dr Mikhail Varonio	1 episode
	Stingers	Daniel Tedesco	1 episode
2002	The Secret Life of Us	Dominic	14 episodes	[19]
1998	Search for Treasure Island	Don Grego	4 episodes
	Wildside	Barry	1 episode
1997	Simone de Beauvoir’s Babies	Ryko	4 episodes
1996	Twisted Tales	Taxi Driver	1 episode
1993	Snowy	Jenda	1 episode
	Phoenix	Steward	1 episode
1989	Darlings of the Gods	Company Member	TV movie
1988	The Four Minute Mile	Emil Zátopek	TV movie
1979	Bezposrednie polaczenie	Slawek	TV movie

Stage

Year	Title	Role	Venue / Co.
1978	A Midsummer Night’s Dream	Lysander	Bielsko-Biała, Poland
1987	The Emigrants		The New Dolphin Theatre for Perth Fringe Festival
1987	The Hope	Boss	Arts Centre Melbourne, Playhouse, Perth & Perth regional tour with Western Australian Theatre Company & Playbox Theatre Company
1988	Princess Ivona		Perth Festival
1988	Moliere (aka The Cabal of Hypocrites)	Prompter / Just Shoemaker	Key Studios, Melbourne with Australian Nouveau Theatre
1988	Somewhere in Here are Henry and Louisa		Organ Factory, Melbourne with La Mama
1989–90	The Imaginary Invalid	Cleante	Universal Theatre, Melbourne, Armoury Lawns, Adelaide with Anthill Theatre & New Fortune Theatre
1989	The Maids	Claire	Anthill Theatre, Melbourne
1990	The Emigrants		Anthill Theatre, Melbourne
1990	Waiting for Godot		Russell Street Theatre, Melbourne with Australian Nouveau Theatre & MTC
1990	Nothing Sacred	Sitnikov	Playhouse, Melbourne with MTC
1990	Peer Gynt		Universal Theatre, Melbourne with Australian Nouveau Theatre
1991	Endgame		Anthill Theatre for Melbourne International Comedy Festival
1991	The Taming of the Shrew		Playhouse, Melbourne with MTC
1991	The Marriage of Figaro	Figaro	Playhouse, Melbourne with MTC & Australian Nouveau Theatre
1991	The Woman in the Dunes		La Mama
1992	Gulliver’s Travels	The General	Playhouse, Melbourne, Ford Theatre, Geelong with MTC & Handspan Theatre
1993	Faust	Faust	MTC
1993	The Master and Margarita	The Master	Five Dollar Theatre Company
1994	Angels in America	Roy Cohn	Playhouse, Melbourne
1994	Blue Murder	Blue	Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney
1995	The Tempest	Trinculo	Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney with Company B, The Space, Adelaide
1995	Picasso at the Lapin Agile	Pablo Picasso	Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney Directed by Neil Armfield
1995	The Blind Giant is Dancing	Ramon Gris	Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney
1995	Hamlet	Claudius	Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney, Playhouse, Melbourne
1995	The Splendids	Jean	Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney with Company B
1997	Tartuffe	Tartuffe	Drama Theatre, Sydney with STC
1998	The Caucasian Chalk Circle	Azdac	Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney
1999	As You Like It	Jacques	Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney
1999	Waiting for Godot		Russell Street Theatre with MTC
2000	The Marriage of Figaro	Figaro	Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney
2001	Emma's Nose	Wilhelm Fliess	Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney
2003	Endgame	Hamm	Wharf Theatre with STC for Sydney Festival
2003	Macbeth	Macbeth	Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney
2004	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Nick Bottom	Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney
2005	Cruel and Tender	The General	Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney
2013	The Dance of Death	Edgar	Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne
2021	Death of a Salesman	Willy Loman	Roslyn Packer Theatre with STC

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