[2] He played leading roles in Krzysztof Krauze's political drama Street Games and the thriller The Debt, for which he received the Polish Academy Award for Best Actor.

[6] He attended the Juliusz Słowacki High School in Olesnica,[7] where he gained his first acting skills in the amateur theater and cabaret Salon Satyryczny Struś.

[8] In 1990, he made his debut in the role of Motl Kamzoil in the classic musical Fiddler on the Roof by Jerry Bock, directed by Jan Szurmiej on the stage of Wroclaw Operetta, with which he was affiliated from 1991 to 1992.

His participation in Krzysztof Krauze's comedy New York, Four o'clock in the Morning (1988) was limited to sitting on a bench at the railway station in Bystrzyca Klodzka.

For his portrayal of businessman Adam Borecki in Krzysztof Krauze's crime drama Dług (1999), he received the Polish Film Award Eagle.