Agnieszka Holland (born 28 November 1948) is a Polish film and
television director and screenwriter, best known for her political
contributions to Polish cinema. She began her career as assistant to
directors Krzysztof Zanussi and Andrzej Wajda, and emigrated to France
shortly before the 1981 imposition of the martial law in
Poland.Holland is best known for her films Europa Europa (1991) and
her 2011 drama In Darkness, which was nominated for Best Foreign
Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards. In 2017 she received Alfred
Bauer Prize (Silver Bear) for her film Spoor at the Berlin
International Film Festival.Holland was born in Warsaw, Poland in
1948. She is the daughter of journalists Irena (née Rybczyńska) and
Henryk Holland, who was a prominent Communist activist since 1935 and
a captain of the Polish Army. Holland's mother was Catholic and her
father Jewish, but she was not brought up in any religious faith. Her
father, Henryk Holland, lost his parents in a ghetto during the
Holocaust, and spent most of his adult life denying his own
Jewishness. Holland's mother participated in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising
as a member of the Polish resistance movement. Holland's Catholic
mother aided several Jews during the Holocaust and received the
Righteous Among the Nations medal from the Yad Vashem Institute in
Israel. Agnieszka Holland Biography, Weight & Height, Age, Nationality & Ethnicity
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