Joanna Pacula
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Joanna Pacula (born 1957 in Tomaszów Lubelski, Poland) is a Polish actress.
She started her career playing in productions of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Othello and As You Like It. She also found work in a handful of films, including Krzysztof Zanussi's Barwy Ochronne/Camouflage (1977).
In 1981, Pacula was caught in Paris when communist authorities in Poland declared martial law. She eventually emigrated to the USA where she has specialized in playing European temptresses since her feature debut opposite William Hurt in Gorky Park (1983). She acted the part of the exotic beauty in numerous American TV series and movies, including the Holocaust drama Escape From Sobibor (CBS, 1987), E.A.R.T.H. Force (CBS, 1990) and The Colony (ABC, 1996). More recently, she was featured in Tombstone (1993) as Doc Holliday's lover Kate, The Haunted Sea (1997) and Virus (1999), playing a Russian scientist.pl:Joanna Pacuła