Jacek Chmielnik

Jacek Chmielnik strikes me as the complete theater animal: actor, playwright, and writer who worked both stage and screen, trained at the storied Łódź Film School. There's a poignancy I can't shake in his timeline. In 2007 his country honored him with the Order of Polonia Restituta, and that same year he died. Recognition and farewell arriving together feels almost unbearably theatrical for a man of the stage. I have a real weakness for stage actors, people who give everything to a single irreproducible night. He lives on now in the recordings and texts he left, and I find that quiet permanence genuinely moving.

Name (English)

Jacek Chmielnik

Name (Japanese)

ジャック・チェミルニク

Reading

じゃっく・ちぇみるにく

Born

January 31, 1953 – August 22, 2007

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Snake

Origin

Łódź, Łódź Voivodeship, Poland

Occupation

actor / writer / playwright / stage actor / film actor

Awards & achievements

• 2007 Knight of the Order of Polonia Restituta

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%81%E3%82%A7%E3%83%9F%E3%83%AB%E3%83%8B%E3%82%AF

Tags

• Łódź Voivodeship
• actor
• writer
• playwright

Last updated

2026-06-02

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