Gabriela Kownacka

Gabriela Anna Kownacka (née Kwasz) (25 May 1952, Wrocław – 30 November 2010, Warsaw) was a Polish film and stage actress, best known for playing in the Polish TV series Rodzina zastępcza. Kownacka was a Lutheran. She has starred in over 60 television theater roles and starred in over 40 theater productions across the country. By the decision of the President of the Republic of Poland of August 22, 2005, she was awarded the Cross of Merit. Kownacka died on 30 November 2010, aged 58, after a long battle with breast cancer that began in 2004. On 7 December 2010, she was interred at the Evangelical Cemetery of the Augsburg Confession in Warsaw.