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Joanna Pacula

Dec 30, 1957 (67 years old) in Tomaszów Lubelski, Lubelskie, Poland

Joanna Pacula (born January 2, 1957) is a Polish actress. Pacula joined Warsaw Dramatic Theatre where she acted until 1981. She started her career playing in productions of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Othello and As You Like It. She also found work in a handful of films, including Krzysztof Zanussi's Barwy ochronne/Camouflage (1977). In 1981, Pacula was caught in Paris when communist authorities in Poland declared martial law. In 1982 she eventually emigrated to the U.S. where she has specialized in playing European temptresses since her feature debut opposite William Hurt in Gorky Park (1983). She played the part of the exotic beauty in numerous American TV series and movies, including the Holocaust drama Escape From Sobibor (CBS, 1987), The Kiss (1988), E.A.R.T.H. Force (CBS, 1990), and the TV series, The Colony (ABC, 1996). She was featured in Marked for Death (1990) as an expert on Jamaican voodoo and gangs; in the Italian erotic thriller Husbands And Lovers (1992) as a free spirited adultress (which featured a rather controversial bare-bottom spanking scene, a first in a mainstream film); Tombstone (1993) as Doc Holliday's lover, Kate (also known as Big Nose Kate and Mary Catherine Haroney, born November 7, 1850); in The Haunted Sea (1997); and in the movie Virus (1999), playing a Russian scientist. She currently resides in Southern California.

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Bones
Drina Mirga
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Monk
Leyla Zlatavich
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Tombstone
Kate
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Calling 07
prostytutka pracująca dla Walaska
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Dom
Ewa Szymosiuk
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Night Visions
Head Immigrant (segment "Cargo")
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Virus
Nadia Vinogradova
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El padrino: The Latin Godfather
Jessica Lancaster
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Gorky Park
Irina Asanova
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Warlock: The Armageddon
Paula Dare

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