Katarzyna A. Smiechowicz is a Polish actress from Lodz, residing in Los Angeles since 2000, where she studied acting at the Beverly Hills Playhouse and at the Margie Haber Studio. Throughout her career, she has appeared in over 30 feature films and television series having worked with such directors as Steven Spielberg, Krzysztof Krauze, Jacek Bromski, Tomasz Konecki, Andrzej Saramonowicz, and Olaf Lubaszenko. Already from a young age, her passion for ballet and poetry turned to acting when a respected Polish actor, Wirgiliusz Gryn, discovered her acting talent and convinced her to pursue acting as a profession. Beyond film and television, she has portrayed many great parts on stage, including Katharina in Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew", and Roza in Juliusz Slowacki's "Lilla Weneda." Kasia's U.S. theater debut was in the leading role of Carrie in "Cafe Hollywood." With a home on both continents, but a husband in the U.S., she spends most of the time in Los Angeles, but works both in Europe and the States. Her husband Dominik J. Leconte is an executive at Sony Pictures. On July 3rd 2010 Kasia and Dominik welcomed their identical twin boys, Antoni and Fabian at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
She speaks fluent English, Polish and Russian, and moderately German.She is a Mezzo-Soprano.Smiechowicz is also the head of Kasia Films - an international film and television production company.Her maternal grandparents, Henryka and Bronislaw Puczynski were longtime members of the Cathedral Choir in the city of Czestochowa.Her paternal grandparents, Zofia and Jozef Smiechowicz were merchants in her hometown of Lodz, with her grandfather serving as mayor of Gadka Stara for several years.She lost her father Lech when she was 4 years old. He was fatally run over by the Polish Communist Police (Milicja) on a local road close to their house. Years later, her nephew Damian was killed in a bicycle accident at a tender age of 19 on the same road and less than a mile away from where her father was killed. Damian was an up and coming poet, whose talent was compared to the great Polish poet, Krzysztof Kamil Baczynski.Has an older brother Radoslaw Smiechowicz (father to Damian, Roksana and Joseph), and a younger sister Magdalena Warsinska-Kowalczyk (from her mother's second marriage to Krzysztof Warsinski). Magdalena was a child actor (I Skrzypce Przestaly Grac), but decided to become a fashion and jewelry designer, creating the jewelry line "Jantarka.pl".She is the second child of Wirginia (a teacher and a historian) and Lech (an entrepreneur).She is also actively involved in promoting the Polish Film Festival in Los Angeles.Interested in Numerology.Kasia also had her own column in the widely read Polish Weekly (Tele Tydzien) and her articles were published in the main Polish Daily (Gazeta Wyborcza).She won many poetry performance competitions as a youth in her native Poland.She loves to dance. Involved in ballet from a young age, but ballroom was always closer to her heart.Friends from the Polish Film Industry encouraged her to write scripts.Started acting as a teenager.