---
name: "Irena Byrska"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/irena-byrska"
fi1m_id: "irena-byrska"
imdb_id: "nm0126437"
tmdb_id: 2826
wikidata_id: "Q42529546"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "9 October 1901"
died: "28 January 1997"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T00:50:09.178248+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Irena Byrska

## Identity

Irena Byrska

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/irena-byrska
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** irena-byrska
- **IMDb ID:** nm0126437
- **TMDB ID:** 2826
- **Wikidata ID:** Q42529546
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42529546, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0126437/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2826

Actor. Born 9 October 1901 in Warszawa, Rosja (obecnie Polska). Died 28 January 1997.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 9 October 1901, Warszawa, Rosja (obecnie Polska)
- **Died:** 28 January 1997
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42529546, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0126437/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2826

## Biography

Irena Byrska (1901–1997) was a Polish actress, theatre director and pedagogue. She trained at the drama department of the Warsaw Conservatory, graduating with distinction in 1927, and began her career in Warsaw theatres before working in Riga and Vilnius. She held positions at several Polish theatres, including as director of the Juliusz Osterwa Theatre in Gorzów Wielkopolski from 1963 to 1966, and collaborated frequently with her husband, Tadeusz Byrski.

Byrska appeared in a number of films late in her career. She played matka Hulewicz in Andrzej Wajda’s *Man of Iron* (1981) and the aunt in Krzysztof Kieślowski’s *Blind Chance* (1987). She also featured in *The Contract* (1980) and *Filip z konopi* (1983). She received the Commander’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta in 1993.

*Sources: imdb.com, pl.wikipedia.org, filmweb.pl.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Man of Iron* (1981), Fi1m 78, as matka Hulewicz — [page](https://film.one/film/man-of-iron.md)

## Complete filmography (5)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Blind Chance* (1987), as Aunt (2)
- *The Contract* (1982), as Babysitter
- *Man of Iron* (1981), as matka Hulewicz — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/man-of-iron.md)
- *Filip z konopi* (1981), as matka Krystyny
- *Where Is Our Home?* (1945), Director

---
© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/irena-byrska