Joanna Kanska (born 1 April 1957) is a Polish-British actress who has worked in film, television, theatre and radio.
Born in Nowy Sącz, she attended the National Film School in Łódź from 1976 to 1980.
[2] 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 (1988) (and a sequel, A Very Polish Practice in 1992), as Ludmilla in The New Statesman, as Sirkka Nieminen in Capital City (1990)[3] and as KGB Major Nina Grishna in the BBC's mini-series Sleepers (1991).
She also played the part of Greta Beaumont, a Sudeten German woman, in the first episode of Foyle's War.
Shortly after her arrival in the UK, Kanska married Polish artist Kaz Kanski after a romance of a few weeks.