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Jacek Koman has built an extensive career across film, television and theater, both in Australia and in Europe. Koman recently completed production on the Stan series “Prosper” and will next be seen in a pair of series, “The Teacher” (Canal+) and “Last Days of the Space Age” (Disney+).

With his unforgettable rendition of “Roxanne” Koman is well known for playing the “Narcoleptic Argentinean” in Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge! Subsequently he appeared in Jungle, with Daniel Radcliffe; Sucker, with Timothy Spall; and Son of a Gun, with Ewan McGregor. Koman was also seen in Mark Albiston and Louis Sutherland’s Shopping, Baz Luhrmann’s Australia, Edward Zwick’s Defiance, Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men, Simon Baker’s debut feature Breath and Cris Jones’ The Death and Life of Otto Bloom. His other film credits include Romulus My Father, Floodhouse, Horseplay, The Sound of One Hand Clapping, Thank God He Met Lizzie, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance and The Hunter.

Koman appeared in the second season of Foxtel’s hit series “Spirited,” for which he received an AACTA Award nomination for Best Guest or Supporting Actor in a Television Drama. His other television credits include the Seven Network series “Wanted” and “Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries,” the FX series “Mr Inbetween,” Nine Network’s “Doctor Doctor,” Back to Back Theatre and Matchbox Pictures co-production “Oddlands,” Jane Campion’s “Top of the Lake,” “Reef Break,” the Netflix series “Tidelands” and “The Woods,” the HBO/BBC miniseries “Tsunami – The Aftermath,” BBC’s “Waking the Dead” and a number of Australian Broadcasting Corporation series: “Jack Irish,” “Mustangs FC,” “Rake, “The Wrong Kind of Black,” “The Doctor Blake Mysteries,” “Seven Types of Ambiguity” and “The Warriors.”

Koman’s other small-screen work includes “Small Time Gangster,” “Tripping Over,” “Mary Bryant,” “Simone De Beauvoir’s Babies,” “East West 101,” “Stingers,” “MDA,” “The Secret Life of Us” and “Wildside.”

Koman has starred in many Polish feature films including Maciej Kawalski’s Dangerous Gentlemen, Jan Komasa’s The Hater (winner of Best Narrative Feature at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2020) and Bartosz Konopka’s The Mute.

Koman received a Green Room Award nomination (Best Male Actor) for his performance in the Malthouse Theatre Company production of “Dance of Death.” He has worked with many of Australia’s leading theater companies and his credits for Sydney Theatre Company include “Death of a Salesman,” “King Lear,” “Endgame,” “Tartuffe” and “Fred.” Koman’s Melbourne Theatre Company credits include “Cruel & Tender,” “Angels in America” (Age Performing Arts and Green Room Award), “Gulliver’s Travels,” “The Taming of the Shrew,” “Nothing Sacred,” “The Marriage of Figaro” and “Waiting for Godot.” Belvoir Theatre credits include “The Threepenny Opera,” “Macbeth,” “Emma’s Nose,” “The Marriage of Figaro,” “As You Like It,” “Picasso at the Lapin Agile,” “The Caucasian Chalk Circle,” “Lulu,” “The Blind Giant Is Dancing,” “Splendids,” “The Tempest,” “Hamlet” and “Blue Murder.” For Anthill Theatre his credits include “The Emigrants,” “The Maids,” “Imaginary Invalid” and “Moliere.”

Jacek Koman is also the lead singer of the Melbourne band VulgarGrad, who play “blatnyak,” Russian criminal music.

Press release from Fosforo Press.

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