Graduate of National Film School in Łódź (1978), where he studied alongside Jacek Koman.

[3] He made his first professional stage appearance in 1977 as a Lentulus in a production of Androcles and the Lion directed by the reformer of Polish mime theatre, Henryk Tomaszewski.

Among them were Krystian Lupa (as Mandelabum in Witkacy's Dainty Shapes and Hairy Apes, or The Green Pill), Alina Obidniak (as Orestes in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Iphigenia in Tauris), Wanda Laskowska (as Doctor in James Joyce's Ulysses), Lech Raczak (as Titorelli in Franz Kafka's The Trial), Jerzy Kreczmar (as German in August Strindberg's Master Olof), Roman Kłosowski (as Joe in William Saroyan's The Time of Your Life) and Krzysztof Babicki (as Gottlieb Biedermann in Max Frisch's The Fire Raisers).

[4] He continued to act in theatre for most of his career, and became noted for his portrayal of Bruce Niles in Larry Kramer's play The Normal Heart, but became better known once he started to work with movie directors Zbigniew Kuźmiński, Andrzej Konic and Adek Drabiński.

He later acted, with acclaim, in their movies and miniseries, including Republic of Hope (1988) opposite Barbara Brylska and Leon Niemczyk, The Burning Border (1988–1991), Sensations of the 20th Century (2001–2005), and Mystery of the Codes Stronghold (2007).