Carolina Bartczak

Carolina Bartczak (born October 5th, 1985 in Gehrden, Germany) is a Canadian/Polish actress. She is known for her role as Magda Lehnsherr,[1] the wife of Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto in X-Men: Apocalypse and as Maura Mackenzie in the CBC film An Audience of Chairs.[2]

Carolina Bartczak
Born
Carolina Anna Bartczak

(1985-08-28) 28 August 1985
Alma materUniversity of Toronto
Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre
OccupationActress
Years active2010–present

Early life

Carolina Bartczak was born in Germany after her parents escaped the Martial law in Poland. She eventually immigrated to Canada with her family and grew up in Kitchener, Ontario. She studied biochemistry at the University of Toronto[3] and worked as a travel writer/photographer in southern Croatia.[4] She turned to acting in 2009 and attended the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City.[5] Carolina Bartczak has dual citizenship between Canada and Poland and speaks French and Polish fluently.

Career

Bartczak's first role was playing the voice of Alfred Hedgehog in the cartoon The Mysteries of Alfred Hedgehog.[6] Her first on screen role was playing a high maintenance mother opposite Brendan Gleeson, and Neil Patrick Harris in The Smurfs 2. Bartczak also played Nurse Clara in the action film Brick Mansions opposite Paul Walker and as Amanda Dean in the film Business Ethics opposite Larenz Tate.[7] Her most famous role has been playing Magda Lehnsherr, the wife of Erik Lehnsherr in the Marvel comic series X-Men.[8] In X-Men: Apocalypse, Erik Lehnsherr, played by Michael Fassbender, becomes Magneto after he is enraged by Magda's murder. In 2018, she was cast as the lead in a film by the CBC, An Audience of Chairs written by Rosemary House. Carolina Bartczak plays Maura, a beautiful woman suffering from mental illness based on a novel of the same name written by Joan Clark. The film was released in Canada on March 22nd, 2019. Carolina will be playing the role of Brenda Lopez, starring opposite Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson, Charlie Plummer, and Michael Peña in the upcoming Roland Emmerich Sci-Fi action film, Moonfall. Moonfall is slated to be released in 2022 by Lionsgate.

Filmography

YEARTITLEROLENOTES
2022MoonfallBrenda LopezFeature
2020Most Dangerous GameWifeTV Series
2020HallValFeature
2019CarterAbigailTV Series
2019White Lie (film)MagdaFeature
2018The Bold TypeEdenTV Series
2018Far Cry 5Cult LeaderVideo Game
2017 Rainbow Six Siege Zofia Bosak Video Game
2017An Audience of ChairsMaura MackenzieFeature
2016Business EthicsAmanda DeanFeature
2016Cleverly DisguisedDanaShort
2015X-Men: ApocalypseMagdaFeature
2015Gray AreaNinaShort
2015The Secret Life of Marilyn MonroePhyllisTV Series
2015MaydayLauren BessetteTV Series
2014Brick MansionsNurse ClaraFeature
2014Femme BruleeColleen ZimmermanShort Film
2013Karma's a BitchKairaTV Series
2013The ListenerSarah WembleyTV Series
2013The Smurfs 2Peanut MomFeature
2013Plato's Reality MachineMaggieFeature
2012Covert AffairsDebraTV Series
2011RoomBudsCarlyShortfilm
2011ScrewedMirabelTV Series
2011Crazy PhotographerIvanka TrovovichFeature
2011WiltRed Dress GirlFeature
2010The Mysteries of Alfred HedgehogAlfred Hedgehog (voice)TV series

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