Marcin Dorociński

Marcin Grzegorz Dorociński Polish ˈmartɕin dɔrɔˈtɕiɲskʲi born 22 June 1973 is a Polish film television and stage actor He is known for playing roles in such films as Pitbull2005 Reverse 2009 Rose 2011 Jack Strong 2014 Hurricane 2018 and Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One 2023 as well as internationally produced TV series Spies of Warsaw 2013 and The Queens Gambit 2020 Dorociński was born in Milanówek and grew up in a small village Kłudzienko His father is a blacksmith and his mother is a housewife He has three brothers all of whom are police officers He dreamt of becoming a professional football player However he was forced to give up the plan after sustaining a significant leg injury He attended the vocational school in Grodzisk Mazowiecki and obtained a machinist certificate The first person to notice his talent for acting was his history teacher who encouraged him to become an actor In 1993 he enrolled at the Aleksander Zelwerowicz State Theatre Academy In his second year at the State Theatre Academy he was cast as Don Rodrigue in a television adaptation of Le Cid directed by Krystyna Janda After graduating from the Academy in 1997 he struggled to find acting jobs He worked as a waiter and a bouncer He took other casual jobs until he was offered a post at the Dramatic Theatre in Warsaw He has also appeared in several plays at the Ateneum Theatre in Warsaw where he is currently employed He played minor roles in multiple television series before his breakthrough came with the role in Patryk Vegas 2005 film Pitbull which brought him the Zbyszek Cybulski Award He is a twotime Polish Film Festival award winner for his  Reverse 2009 and Rose 2011 roles  The latter also earned him the IFFI Best Actor Award at Indias 43rd International Film Festival In 2012 he appeared in Magdalena Łazarkiewiczs critically acclaimed TV series The Deep End Głęboka woda which earned him a nomination for Best Actor Award at the Monte Carlo Television Festival Between 2012 and 2013 Dorociński appeared in a miniseries called Spies of Warsaw coproduced by the and Telewizja Polska In 2020 he joined the cast of the Netflix drama miniseries The Queens Gambit starring Anya TaylorJoy Based on the 1983 novel by Walter Tevis of the same name the show explores the life of an orphan chess prodigy named Beth Harmon from the age of eight to twentytwo as she struggles with addiction in a quest to become a grandmaster in chess Dorociński plays Soviet world chess champion Vasily Borgov He is married to scenic designer Monika Sudół The couple has a son Stanisław born 2006 and a daughter Janina born 2008 They also brought up Sudółs son from a previous relationship Jakub Description above from the Wikipedia article about Marcin Dorociński licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia