Biography
Halina Gryglaszewska was a Polish actress and theatre director. She was born on 13 June 1917 in Kharkiv, then part of the Russian Empire, and died on 18 June 2010 in Kraków.
She trained at the State Higher School of Theatre in Kraków and made her stage debut in 1946. Gryglaszewska was long associated with Kraków theatres, including the Stary Teatr, and later taught at the Kraków drama school. Her film roles include Malinowska in Andrzej Wajda’s The Promised Land (1975) and the aunt in Krzysztof Kieślowski’s The Double Life of Véronique (1991).
