---
name: "Piotr Cieślak"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/piotr-cieslak"
fi1m_id: "piotr-cieslak"
imdb_id: "nm0162161"
tmdb_id: 2815
wikidata_id: "Q11817384"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "1 November 1948"
died: "12 September 2015"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T00:23:06.296121+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."
---

# Piotr Cieślak

## Identity

Piotr Cieślak

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/piotr-cieslak
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** piotr-cieslak
- **IMDb ID:** nm0162161
- **TMDB ID:** 2815
- **Wikidata ID:** Q11817384
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11817384, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0162161/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2815

Actor. Born 1 November 1948 in Toruń, Polska. Died 12 September 2015.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 1 November 1948, Toruń, Polska
- **Died:** 12 September 2015
- **Also known as:** Piotr Cieslak
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11817384, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0162161/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2815

## Biography

Piotr Cieślak was a Polish actor and theatre director. Born on 1 November 1948 in Toruń, he graduated from the acting department of the State Higher Theatre School (PWST) in Warsaw in 1970 and later completed studies in directing there.

He began his career in theatre, co-founding the Puławy Studio Theatre and later working at Warsaw's Studio Theatre and Teatr Powszechny, where he acted and directed under Zygmunt Hübner. From 1993 to 2007 he served as artistic director of Warsaw's Teatr Dramatyczny. Cieślak also taught at PWST, holding positions including pro-rector.

His film roles include Michalak in Andrzej Wajda's *Man of Marble* (1977) and appearances in *I Hate Mondays* (1971, uncredited), *Pokój z widokiem na morze* (1978) and *Kung-fu* (1979). He was married to actress Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak from 1971 until his death on 12 September 2015 in Warsaw.

*Sources: imdb.com, culture.pl, pl.wikipedia.org, watch.plex.tv.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Man of Marble* (1977), Fi1m 86, as Michalak — [page](https://film.one/film/man-of-marble.md)

## Complete filmography (12)

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

- *Gintrowski* (2015), Thanks
- *Warsaw: Year 5703* (1992), as Vicaire
- *Game Is Over* (1992), as Kawski
- *Daze* (1989), Actor
- *Kung-fu* (1980), as Wacek Bendkowski, członek rady zakładowej
- *The Card Index* (1979), as Second Guest
- *A Room with a Sea View* (1978), as Priest
- *Układ krążenia* (1977), series, as Dr Marek Daniel
- *Man of Marble* (1977), as Michalak — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/man-of-marble.md)
- *The Shadow-Line* (1976), as Officer
- *The Leaves Have Fallen* (1975), as Wysoki
- *I Hate Mondays* (1971), as Worker (uncredited)

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