Kasia Smutniak

Kasia Smutniak — Biography

Born Katarzyna Anna Smutniak on 13 August 1979 in the Polish city of Piła, she is a Polish-Italian actress, model and occasional film director. Fluent in Polish, Russian, English and Italian, she started out modeling in the mid-1990s before building an acting career based mainly in Italy, and now holds both Polish and Italian citizenship. Her breakout international success came with the 2016 comedy Perfetti Sconosciuti (Perfect Strangers), a hit that was later remade in numerous countries around the world. She has also appeared in Paolo Sorrentino's Loro and played Livia Drusilla in the television series Domina, and in 2024 starred in Ferzan Özpetek's Diamanti (Diamonds). In 2014 she received an Italian film-industry best actress award.