Witold Sadowy

Witold Sadowy (7 January 1920 – 15 November 2020) was a Polish film and theatre actor as well as publicist and columnist of the Gazeta Wyborcza daily and Życie na gorąco magazine.

[1] He made his theatre debut in 1945 by performing the role of Florian in Maurice Maeterlinck's play Le Bourgmestre de Stilmonde directed by Ryszard Wasilewski.

[4] The Polish Union of Stage Actors (ZASP), awarded him the title of distinguished member as a recognition of his work.

[5] In January 2020, at the age of 100, he publicly came out as homosexual in a television reportage by TVP Kultura channel devoted to the celebration of the centenary of his birth.

[6] In March 2020, his coming out received a considerable national and international attention.