Jakub Gierszał

Jakub Gierszał
Gierszał in 2017
Born	(1988-03-20) 20 March 1988 (age 36) Kraków, Poland
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2009–present

Jakub Gierszał (born 20 March 1988) is a Polish actor. His screen debut was in 2009, playing the role of Kazik in the film All That I Love. He later starred in the film Suicide Room, in which he played the character of Dominik, a high school student from a wealthy family who developed a mental health problem.

Early life

Gierszał was born in Kraków. His father, Marek, is a theatre director working mainly in Germany. When Jakub was a few months old, his parents moved to Hamburg. After 11 years he returned to Poland and settled in Toruń. He is a student at the Kraków Academy of Dramatic Arts.^[1]

Career

In 2012, he was a Polish Film Award nominee for Best Actor for his role in Suicide Room.^[2] Gierszał also received a Shooting Stars Award that year.^[3] He earned his second Polish Film Award nomination for Best Actor for Breaking the Limits (2017) and his third for Doppelgänger (2023).

Selected filmography

• All That I Love (2009) as Kazik
• Milion dolarów (2010) as Pawełek Leo
• Suicide Room (2011) as Dominik Santorski
• Yuma (2012) as Zyga
• Lasting (2013) as Michał
• Finsterworld (2013) as Maximilian Sandberg
• Hiszpanka (2013) as Krystian Ceglarski
• Dracula Untold (2014) as Acemi^[4]
• The Lure (2015)
• Morris from America (2016)
• Spoor (2017)
• Breaking the Limits (2017)
• Beyond Words (2017)
• Das Boot (2018)
• The Defence (2018–2022)
• The Getaway King (2021) as Antos
• Doppelgänger (2023) as Hans Steiner
• Simona Kossak (2024) as Lech Wilczek

References

External links

• Jakub Gierszał at IMDb