Alicia Bachleda is a Polish actress. She is known to TV viewers for her roles in the films "Bondage" and "Summer Storm". Bakhleda also starred in the comedy melodrama Tom and White Do America.
Biography and personal life
Alicia Bachleda was born on May 12, 1983 in the city and administrative center of Tampico in Mexico. Alicia's father worked in those places as a geologist. Then the family moved to Poland. The future actress was educated at a secondary school in Krakow. Then she left for the USA. Bakhleda entered the Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute in New York.
In 2008, Alicia received the title of honorary citizen of the Mexican city, where she was born and lived for her first 3 months. At one of the annual Polish film festivals, Bachled was invited to the jury.
Bakhleda is not only an actress, but also a singer. She has been fond of vocals since childhood. As a girl, Bachleda took part in a Polish music competition for children in Poland. She later represented Polish national television at various international festivals. In this capacity, she visited Croatia, Germany, Bulgaria, Latvia and Italy. Alicia performed at a UNICEF concert in Warsaw. Bakhled was commissioned to perform a song on the 80th anniversary of Pope John Paul II. In 2001, Bachled's solo album Klimat was released.
In 2009 and 2010, Alicia dated famous actor Colin Farrell. In the fall of 2009, the couple had a son, Henry. Unfortunately, a year later, Farrell initiated a break with the actress and singer. In 2010, the head of the Krakow administration handed Alicia the keys to the city. The actress became the face of his advertising campaign in Europe.
Career
Alicia's debut role in cinema was Alina in the German production series "Sperling", which ran from 1996 to 2007. Dieter Pfaff, Hans-Joachim Grubel, Anna Bettcher from The Powerpuff Girls, Benno Fuhrmann from The North Wall and Petra Kleinert starred in this detective drama. The series was directed by Markus Rosenmüller, Dominic Graf, Guido Peters.
In 1996, Alicia got a role in the short film Vis a vis by Polish director and screenwriter Boris Lankos. Petr Zirvus and Krzysztof Goretsky became her partners on the set. Then she played Zosia in the military historical melodrama of the joint production of Poland and France "Pan Tadeusz". The drama was directed and written by Andrzej Wajda. The main roles in the film were played by Bohuslav Linda from A Guard for Daughter, Daniel Olbrychsky from The Flood, Grazyna Szapolowska from A Short Film about Love, Andrzej Severin from The French Revolution, Michal Zhebrowski from The Witcher, Marek Kondrat from Day of the Psycho”, Krzysztof Kohlberger from The Conjuring of the Valley of the Snakes. The film is set in Europe at the beginning of the 19th century.
Filmography
She played Anna in the melodramatic series Good and Evil. Then she got the lead role in Jerzy Wujczyk's war drama "The Gate of Europe". Her partners on the set were Kinga Preis, Agnieszka Sitek, Andrey Egorov, Magda Teresa Vuychik and Henrik Bukolovsky. Later, Alicia was invited to play the role of one of the central characters in the drama "Labor of Sisyphus". The film was directed by Pavel Komorovsky. The action takes place in the 90s of the 19th century. The main character is a schoolboy who has a strong feeling for the schoolgirl. However, at the end of the registration, his chosen one leaves with her family to Russia.
In 2001, the actress could be seen as Wanda in the German melodrama Breaking Your Head. Her partner was the male lead actor Tom Schilling. The plot tells about the romance of a guy with a servant. The film was presented at the Zlín Film Festival, the Kinofest Lünen Film Festival and the Internationale Hofer Filmtage Film Festival.
Together with such actors as Robert Stadlober, Kostya Ullmann, Jurgen Tonkel, Miriam Morgenstern, Alicia starred in the 2004 film Summer Storm. She got the role of Anke. This German sports melodrama with comedy elements follows the friendship of the captains of rowing teams who have been friends for a long time. However, one of them eventually realizes that he has real deep feelings for a friend.
Then she played Stella in the science fiction adventure film Legacy of the Knights Templar. The main roles in the film are played by Mirko Lang, Harald Krassnitser, Catherine Flemming and Oliver Mazucci. In the center of the plot is the heir to the Grand Master of the ancient Order of the Templars. Alicia landed the role of Eva in the Swiss comedy Family Secret. The film was directed and written by Lionel Bayer. The film is about a gay guy from Switzerland. When he finds out that he has Polish roots, he decides to visit his historical homeland. In Poland, he meets a new boyfriend and finds real happiness.
In 2007, Alicia starred in the crime thriller Slavery opposite Kevin Kline and Cesar Ramos. The picture tells about a guy and a policeman who decided to save his sister and daughter from sex slavery. The film has been featured at many events, including the Sundance Film Festival, Santa Barbara Film Festival, Portland International Film Festival, San Diego Latin American Film Festival, AFI Dallas Film Festival, Hawaii International Film Festival, Munich International Film Festival, Film by the Sea Film Festival, Morelia Film Festival, International Berlin Film Festival, German Film Festival.
Then she got the lead role in the co-production drama "Decapitated Rooster" by Austria, Germany, Hungary, Romania. The day the kingdom of Romania parted with Nazi Germany radically changes the life of the central character. In 2009, a detective melodrama co-produced by Ireland and the United States was released with Colin Farrell and Alicia Bachleda in the lead roles "Ondine". She then played Zoe in the comedy Tom and White Do America. The film tells the story of the American adventures of 2 friends who gained freedom of travel after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
