Joanna Kanska
Joanna Kanska is a Polish-British actress who has worked in film, television, theatre and radio. She emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1984.
Career
Born in Nowy Sącz, she attended the National Film School in Łódź from 1976 to 1980.Kanska's best known roles on television were as a Polish academic, Grete Gretowska, in the second series of the BBC's A Very Peculiar Practice, as Ludmilla in The New Statesman, as Finnish bank trading floor dealer Sirkka Nieminen in Capital City and as KGB Major Nina Grishina in the BBC's mini-series Sleepers. Kanska starred as lawyer Magda Ostrowska in the BBC series Madson. She also played the part of Greta Beaumont, a Sudeten German woman, in the first episode of Foyle's War.