Maja Wampuszyc is an American actress of stage and screen living in
New York City. She was born and raised in metropolitan
Detroit.Wampuszyc made her Broadway debut as Ida Haller in in Irena's
Vow at the Walter Kerr Theater. Her Off-Broadway credits include
Geraldine Connelly in Paul Green's The House of Connelly at the
ReGroup Theatre, the first person to play that role since Stella Adler
in ; Ida Haller in Irena's Vow; Marina Petrova in James Armstrong's
Foggy Bottom at The Abingdon Theater Company; and appearances at The
Pearl Theatre Company. She also played a radio host in Zhu Yi's I am
the Moon (partially based on the story of the Japanese pornographic
star Ai Iijima), as part of the th annual New York International
Fringe Festival. Other New York City theater credits include: a Father
in The Obie Award-winning play An Oak Tree by and with Tim Crouch at
the Barrow Street Theatre (other fathers included F. Murray Abraham,
Joan Allen, and Frances McDormand) and Rewriting Her Life, by Barbara
Masry, directed by Tony Award winner Trazana Beverley. She has
appeared in runs at HB Playwrights Foundation, MCC, Carnegie Hall,
Metropolitan Museum, Theater for the New City, NYDIA and the Looking
Glass Theater. She has also performed regionally. During the fall of ,
she co-starred in a five-person ensemble in a revival of Mark
Ravenhill's "Pool (no water)" Off-Broadway, once again at the Barrow
Street Theater.Wampuszyc's film credits include Mike Newell's Mona
Lisa Smile () and Henry Jaglom's Going Shopping (). In James Gray's
film The Immigrant she plays Edyta, Ewa Cybulska's aunt, opposite
Marion Cotillard. Wampuszyc was called upon by the feature's director,
James Gray to advise upon her Oscar-winning French cast-mate's
handling of the linguistic challenges presented in taking on the
titular ethnic Polish role of the movie.In Wampuszyc appeared in
Steven Soderbergh's Cinemax television series "The Knick" as Mrs.
Zygmund in the episode "Where's the Dignity".,
New York City. She was born and raised in metropolitan
Detroit.Wampuszyc made her Broadway debut as Ida Haller in in Irena's
Vow at the Walter Kerr Theater. Her Off-Broadway credits include
Geraldine Connelly in Paul Green's The House of Connelly at the
ReGroup Theatre, the first person to play that role since Stella Adler
in ; Ida Haller in Irena's Vow; Marina Petrova in James Armstrong's
Foggy Bottom at The Abingdon Theater Company; and appearances at The
Pearl Theatre Company. She also played a radio host in Zhu Yi's I am
the Moon (partially based on the story of the Japanese pornographic
star Ai Iijima), as part of the th annual New York International
Fringe Festival. Other New York City theater credits include: a Father
in The Obie Award-winning play An Oak Tree by and with Tim Crouch at
the Barrow Street Theatre (other fathers included F. Murray Abraham,
Joan Allen, and Frances McDormand) and Rewriting Her Life, by Barbara
Masry, directed by Tony Award winner Trazana Beverley. She has
appeared in runs at HB Playwrights Foundation, MCC, Carnegie Hall,
Metropolitan Museum, Theater for the New City, NYDIA and the Looking
Glass Theater. She has also performed regionally. During the fall of ,
she co-starred in a five-person ensemble in a revival of Mark
Ravenhill's "Pool (no water)" Off-Broadway, once again at the Barrow
Street Theater.Wampuszyc's film credits include Mike Newell's Mona
Lisa Smile () and Henry Jaglom's Going Shopping (). In James Gray's
film The Immigrant she plays Edyta, Ewa Cybulska's aunt, opposite
Marion Cotillard. Wampuszyc was called upon by the feature's director,
James Gray to advise upon her Oscar-winning French cast-mate's
handling of the linguistic challenges presented in taking on the
titular ethnic Polish role of the movie.In Wampuszyc appeared in
Steven Soderbergh's Cinemax television series "The Knick" as Mrs.
Zygmund in the episode "Where's the Dignity".,
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