Barbara Dominika Kurdej-Szatan (born 22 August 1985) in a Polish stage, film, and television actress, singer, and television presenter.
Biography
Barbara Kurdej-Szatan was born on 22 August 1985 in Opole, Poland.[1][2] She is daughter of Janusz Kurdej and Eliza Wyszomirska-Kurdej, ans has sister Katarzyna Kurdej, who is also an actress. Her maternal grandfather was writer and poet Bogumił Wyszomirski.[1]
As a child she sung for seven years in choir Cantores Opolienses "Legenda", with which, she performed in numerous national and international contests. She also attended Andrzej Głowacki's acting classes, as well as musical school for two years, where she played on violin. Later she performed in the Opelskien Studio Piosenki (Opole Song Studio) and in the Opole Gospel Choir, with which she took part in concets such as Opole National Festival of Polish Song.[3] In 2009, she graduated acting from the National Academy of Theatre Arts in Kraków. While studying, she sung in the music group Marsels.[4][2]
She achieved a nation-wide recognizability, though her appearances in series of commercials of Play cellular network company, aired from 2013 to 2022. There she portrayed a store salesperson together with Maciej Łagodziński.[9][10]
On 4 November 2021, during the border crisis on Belarus–Poland border, she has posted a few-minutes-long recording of uniformed officers, most likely of the Polish Border Guard, wrestling with mothers holding children in their arms. In the background could be heard screams and children crying. Kurdej-Szatan has left an emotion-fueled comment, which included vulgar language, criticising the officers. Her comments, such as calling the officers the "machines without hearts and brains" or "murderes", has stirred a controversy. On 6 November 2021, she has posted an apology for her "voulgar and inapropriate language" used in her statesments.[32][33][34] On 9 November 2021, Jacek Kurski, chairperson of the Polish Television, has informed of her firing from the network.[35] The public prosecutor's office have begun an investigation, charging her with insulting the officers of the Border Guard in May 2022.[32][36] In December 2022, the regional court in Pruszków, had dismissed the case due to the lack of elements of a criminal offence.[37] Following this, the public prosecutor's office had filed a complain regardings the court processings, and in February 2023, the district court in Warsaw had dismissed the case.[38]
In 2022, she participated in a Polsat talent show Mask Singer, and co-hosted TTV show Project Cupid, and Zoom TV show Poranny rogal.[39][40][41] She also took part in advertising campaign of onnline newspaper Wyborcza.pl, and played one of main roles in Polsat television series Domek na szczęście.[42][43]
In 2011, she married actor and singer Rafał Szatan.[49] Together they have two children, Hanna (born 2012), and Henryk (born 2020).[50][51] She has a lyme disease.[52]
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^Barbara Kurdej-Szatan, Magdalena Bober: Jak to się stało? …i ile było w tym przypadku. Basia Kurdej-Szatan w rozmowie z Magdaleną Bober. Warsaw: Magdalena Tacik, 2021, pp. 46–57, ISBN 978-83-96-1010-2-0. (in Polish)
^Barbara Kurdej-Szatan, Magdalena Bober: Jak to się stało? …i ile było w tym przypadku. Basia Kurdej-Szatan w rozmowie z Magdaleną Bober. Warsaw: Magdalena Tacik, 2021, pp. 69–79, ISBN 978-83-96-1010-2-0. (in Polish)
^Barbara Kurdej-Szatan, Magdalena Bober: Jak to się stało? …i ile było w tym przypadku. Basia Kurdej-Szatan w rozmowie z Magdaleną Bober. Warsaw: Magdalena Tacik, 2021, pp. 78, 85. ISBN 978-83-96-1010-2-0. (in Polish)
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^Barbara Kurdej-Szatan, Magdalena Bober: Jak to się stało? …i ile było w tym przypadku. Basia Kurdej-Szatan w rozmowie z Magdaleną Bober. Warsaw: Magdalena Tacik, 2021, pp. 91. ISBN 978-83-96-1010-2-0. (in Polish)
^Barbara Kurdej-Szatan, Magdalena Bober: Jak to się stało? …i ile było w tym przypadku. Basia Kurdej-Szatan w rozmowie z Magdaleną Bober. Warsaw: Magdalena Tacik, 2021, p. 143. ISBN 978-83-96-1010-2-0. (in Polish)
^Barbara Kurdej-Szatan, Magdalena Bober: Jak to się stało? …i ile było w tym przypadku. Basia Kurdej-Szatan w rozmowie z Magdaleną Bober. Warsaw: Magdalena Tacik, 2021, pp. 153–154. ISBN 978-83-96-1010-2-0. (in Polish)
^Barbara Kurdej-Szatan, Magdalena Bober: Jak to się stało? …i ile było w tym przypadku. Basia Kurdej-Szatan w rozmowie z Magdaleną Bober. Warsaw: Magdalena Tacik, 2021, pp. 150, 173. ISBN 978-83-96-1010-2-0. (in Polish)
^Barbara Kurdej-Szatan, Magdalena Bober: Jak to się stało? …i ile było w tym przypadku. Basia Kurdej-Szatan w rozmowie z Magdaleną Bober. Warsaw: Magdalena Tacik, 2021, pp. 201–202. ISBN 978-83-96-1010-2-0. (in Polish)
^Barbara Kurdej-Szatan, Magdalena Bober: Jak to się stało? …i ile było w tym przypadku. Basia Kurdej-Szatan w rozmowie z Magdaleną Bober. Warsaw: Magdalena Tacik, 2021, p. 199. ISBN 978-83-96-1010-2-0. (in Polish)
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