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Helena Modjeska, an actress who specialized in Shakespearean roles. Pola Negri, stage and film actress. John Krasinski, TV and film actor (The Office) Nick Adams (1931–1968), film actor; mother was of Polish descent [1] Grant Aleksander (born 1960), film and daytime actor, Guiding Light. Pico Alexander (born 1991), actor; parents are Polish ...
Pawel B. Szajda (Polish: Paweł Szajda [ˈpavɛw ˈʂajda]; born January 13, 1982) is an American screen and stage actor. [1] He is best known for his roles in Under the Tuscan Sun, Generation Kill, Tatarak, and as Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Poletov in the third season of the Apple TV+ original science fiction space drama series For All Mankind.
Martha Helen Stewart (née Kostyra, Polish: [kɔˈstɨra]; born August 3, 1941) is an American retail businesswoman, writer, and television personality.As the founder of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, focusing on home and hospitality, [1] she gained success through a variety of business ventures, encompassing publishing, broadcasting, merchandising and e-commerce.
Karolina Wydra. Karolina Wydra (Polish pronunciation: [karɔˈlina vɨdra]; born March 5, 1981) [1] is a Polish-American actress and model. She played Dominika Petrova on the Fox medical drama series House, and vampire Violet Mazurski on the HBO dark fantasy series True Blood. Wydra has starred in the fantasy thriller After (2012), and the ...
Polish emigrants to the United States. American families of Polish ancestry. American politicians of Polish descent. Guamanian people of Polish descent. American people of Polish-Jewish descent. American people of Kashubian descent. American trade unionists of Polish descent. Northern Mariana Islands people of Polish descent.
The history of Polish immigration to the United States can be divided into three stages, beginning with the first stage in the colonial era down to 1870, small numbers of Poles and Polish subjects came to America as individuals or in small family groups, and they quickly assimilated and did not form separate communities, with the exception of Panna Maria, Texas founded in the 1850s.
Bobby Vinton. Stanley Robert Vinton (born April 16, 1935) is an American singer and actor, who hosted his own self-titled TV show in the late 1970s. As a teen idol, he became known as "The Polish Prince", as his music paid tribute to his Polish heritage.
175 cm (5 ft 9 in) Joanna Pacuła (Polish: [jɔˈanːa paˈt͡suwa]; born 30 December 1957) [1] is a Polish actress and model. Born in Tomaszów Lubelski and immigrating to the United States in the early 1980s, she first gained prominence through her modeling work for Vogue. Her breakthrough performance in the 1983 film Gorky Park earned her a ...