Jacek Koman

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Jacek Koman
Koman in 2019
Born	(1956-08-15) 15 August 1956 (age 68) Bielsko-Biała, Poland
Alma mater	National Film School in Łódź
Occupation(s)	Actor, singer
Years active	1978–present
Spouse	Catherine McClements ​ ​ (m. 1990)​
Children	2

Jacek Koman (born 15 August 1956) is a Polish actor and singer.

Koman was born in Bielsko-Biała, Poland, to actors Halina Koman (née Dobrowolska; born 3 January 1923^[1]) and Adam Koman (24 December 1922 – 1 December 2005^[1]), and came to Australia in 1982 with his brother Tomek. They landed in Perth before heading over to Melbourne, where he began acting again.^[2]

Koman attended the National Film School in Łódź, where he studied acting alongside Małgorzata Potocka, Andrzej Szczytko and Piotr Skiba (1974–78).

Koman's first professional stage appearance was as Lysander in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream in Bielsko-Biała in 1978.^[3]

He has worked with partner Catherine McClements a number of times, including on films Redheads and Floodhouse, an episode of Rush in 2009, and in theatre productions Angels in America (1994), The Blind Giant is Dancing (1995), Macbeth (2003) and Cruel and Tender (2005).

In 2011, Koman was nominated for an AACTA award for his guest performance in Spirited.^[4] In 2012, he appeared as 'The Great Hypno' in the Australian television series Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries.

In 2013, he returned to the stage after an eight-year absence, in Tom Holloway's translation of Durrenmatt's Dance of Death at the Malthouse Theatre in Melbourne.

Koman was announced as part of the cast for Disney Plus series Last Days of the Space Age.^[5]

In Conclave, he appears as Archbishop Woźniak, the Prefect of the Papal Household and the late pope's confidant.

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Koman is also the lead singer^[6] of VulgarGrad,^[7] a Melbourne band who play Russian-style music and who formed in 2004.

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Koman met his partner, Australian actress Catherine McClements, in the late 1980s at the Anthill Theatre in Melbourne. They have two children together – Clementine Coco (born July 2001) and Quincy (born May 2007).

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