Zenia Magierówna

Biography

As a teenager, she took acting lessons from Maria Przybylko-Potocka. In the early 1930s, she began performing in Warsaw theaters under the diminutive name Zenia Magierowna. In the 1931/32 season, she played in the Hollywood revue theater. Subsequently, she played in theaters: 8.30, Summer and Polish in operettas and musical comedies. She also performed in performances for young people. In the fall of 1933, she was nominated for the title of the Queen of the Screen of the "Kino" Magazine. The following year, she appeared in Tadeusz Chrzanowski's "Awanturki jego córki". She also played minor roles in the films "Bohaterowie Sybiru" and "Wierna rzeka". During the war, she played in public theaters, e.g. at the Miniature Theatre. She fought in the Warsaw Uprising, then ended up in a camp in Oberlangen. After the war, Eugenia Magierowna found herself in Brussels, where, together with Fryderyk Járosy and Helena Grossówna, she founded the Cyrulik Warszawski revue theatre. The theater quickly gathered many popular Polish artists, including singer Zofia Terné and actress Ewa Stojowska, known from the pre-war Lviv station of the Polish Radio. Cyrulik Warszawski gave performances in Belgium, France and Germany, then moved to London. For several years, the band performed for Polish soldiers of the British Army in many places in Great Britain. Until the mid-1970s, Magierowna performed in Polish theaters in London, including in the White Eagle Club, Ognisko Polskie, Actor's Theater, Siren Theater, Polish Theater ZASP. In some productions (including Enchanted Nights or The Return of Mr. Twardowski) she played together with her husband, Wladyslaw Prus-Olszowski. In 1977, she retired from the stage, moved out of London and settled in Dorset, UK.