She made her debut on television in 1975 by appearing in episode 1 of the cult 1970s TV series Czterdziestolatek (The Forty-Year-Old).

Wolność jest w nas and Juliusz Machulski's 2017 film Volta.

[2] In 2010, she was elected President of the Union of Polish Stage Actors (ZASP), the first woman to hold this post.

[4] On 28 October 1989, during a live interview on the main state-run evening news programme Dziennik Telewizyjny (Television Journal), she made a historic statement in which she publicly announced the end of communism in Poland: Proszę Państwa, 4 czerwca 1989 roku skończył się w Polsce komunizm.

[5] She is the daughter of actor Andrzej Szczepkowski, and Roma née Parandowska, and the granddaughter of Jan Parandowski.