Julia Krynke is an actress, voiceover artist and classically trained musician from Opole, Poland.  She holds a Master’s Degree in Acting from the Ludwik Solski Academy for the Dramatic Arts in Wroclaw. She is also highly proficient in flute and piano, having studied at Opole Music School for 11 years.

Having always been fascinated by improvisation methods and the Michael Chekhov acting technique, Julia moved to the UK in 2008 to deepen her knowledge with Graham Dixon at the Michael Chekhov Studio in London. She has worked extensively in film, television and theatre in Poland, Germany, Ireland and the UK.

Lead roles in films include the Golden Bear nominated and FIPRESCI prize winning ‘Distant Lights’, directed by Hans-Christian Schmid (Germany, 2003); ‘Undocument’ (UK/Iran/Jordan, 2016), a four-part feature by Kyla Simone Bruce and Amin Bakshian; ‘Der Pfarrer und das Mädchen’ (ZDF Germany, 2015), directed by Maris Pfeiffer. Other film appearances include a supporting role in ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ (USA, 2015), a feature film directed by Joss Whedon; Natascha Karpenko in ‘Ein Starkes Team: Tödliche Botschaft’ (Germany, 2016), directed by Maris Pfeiffer and a feature film ‘Die of Love’ (Iran, 2006), directed by Bijan Birang, a role for which she learnt to speak Persian.

Television appearances include the role of Olenka in the BAFTA winning drama series ‘The Street’ (BBC, 2009), written by Jimmy McGovern and directed by David Blair; Bibi Saparova in ‘Spooks’ (BBC, 2009), directed by Alrick Riley; Mela in ‘The English Class’ (RTE, 2007); Danuta in ‘Trivia’ (RTE, 2011); Ania Green in ‘Holby City’ (BBC, 2010); Mira Ziemska in ‘Lekarze’ (TVN, 2013); Milena Kintrup in a German-Austrian-Swiss film series ‘Tatort: Das Wunder von Wolbeck’ (ZDF, 2012), directed by Matthias Tiefenbacher; Kasia in ‘Line of Duty’ (BBC, 2014), directed by Daniel Nettheim; Katrin in ‘DCI Banks’ (ITV, 2015), directed by David Richards; Maya in a mini-series ‘The A Word‘ (BBC, 2016), directed by Peter Cattaneo and Dominic Leclerc; Regina Meissner in ‘Die Kanzlei‘ (ARD, 2018), directed by Maris Pfeiffer; Dobroslawa in ‘Sick of It’ (Sky 1, 2018), directed by Richard Yee; Cristina Hagi in ‘Notruf Hafenkante’ (ZDF, 2019), directed by Lena Knauss; Krystyna Winnicka in ’Ślad’ (Polsat, 2019); Nikola Böhler in ‘Polizeiruf: Heilig Sollt Ihr Sein’(2020, ARD),directed by Rainer Kaufmann; Roza Furstenburg in ‘Ridley Road’ (BBC, 2021), directed by Lisa Mulcahy and Gita in ‘We Were the Lucky Ones’(Hulu, 2024), directed by Neasa Hardiman.

Other roles of note include Monica in ‘The Townlands of Brazil’, a critically acclaimed play written by Dermot Bolger, directed by Ray Yeates and performed at the Axis Theatre in Dublin (2006-2007), and leading roles in both Jessica Townsend’s comedy ‘Humane Resources’ (Best Short, London Film Festival) and Saschko Frey’s thriller ‘Echoes’ (Friedrich-Wilhelm Murnau Prize).

In 2026, Julia will appear in the second series of the British television drama ‘Ellis’ (Channel 5), directed by Max Myers, in which she plays Celina Pusch. ‘Little Dipper or Bust’, an independent feature film written and directed by Gavin Irvine in which she plays Pam Joy, will have its premiere in the autumn of 2026.

Julia has won several awards, including the Best Actor Award, Audience Award and Critics’ Award for the role of Gileta in the play ‘The Topsy-Turvy Princess’ by Calderon de la Barca, directed by Remigiusz Brzyk; and Second Prize in the Ogólnopolski Przegląd Piosenki Aktorskiej in Zamosc (a Polish singing contest for actors).

A keen student of the arts, Julia has also studied acting at the Academy for Theatre Practices in Gardzienice, taken courses with Andrei Malaev Babel (Demidov Association, USA) and Zygmunt Molik (The Grotowski Institute, Poland).

Julia has been working as a voiceover artist since 2010. Her delivery is extremely versatile: she is the voice of the main audio guide in the House of European History in Brussels and has worked on several very high-profile advertising campaigns (Intimissimi, Google Pixel, Philips), IVR (Expedia), ADR (Amazon Prime) as well as corporate training (Oracle).

Outside of acting, Julia’s interests include linguistics, yoga, mindfulness and meditation.