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Joanna Kanska

Joanna Kanska

Acting

Biography

Joanna Kanska is a Polish-British actress who has worked in films, television, theatre and radio. She immigrated to the United Kingdom in 1984.

Known For

EastEnders
4.2

The everyday lives of working-class residents of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square of terrace houses surrounding a park in the East End of London's Walford borough.

EastEnders

1985
Casualty
6.2

Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.

Casualty

1986
Peak Practice
6.5

Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 January 2002 and was one of their most successful series at the time. It originally starred Kevin Whately as Dr Jack Kerruish, Amanda Burton as Dr Beth Glover and Simon Shepherd as Dr Will Preston, though the roster of doctors would change many times over the course of the series. Cardale was based on the Staffordshire village of Longnor for the final series, but was previously based in the Derbyshire village of Crich, although certain scenes were filmed at other nearby Derbyshire towns and villages, most notably Matlock, Belper and Ashover.

Peak Practice

1993
Foyle's War
7.8

As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War opens in southern England in the year 1940. Later series sees the retired detective working as an MI5 agent operating in the aftermath of the war.

Foyle's War

2002
Rumpole of the Bailey
7.0

Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an aging London barrister who defends any and all clients, and has been spun off into a series of short stories, novels, and radio programmes.

Rumpole of the Bailey

1975
Lovejoy
7.4

The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “divvie”, a person with an almost supernatural powers for recognising exceptional items as well as distinguishing genuine antique from clever fakes or forgeries.

Lovejoy

1986
The New Statesman
7.4

The New Statesman is a British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time.

The New Statesman

1987
The Last Detective
7.8

"Dangerous" Davies always gets the cases no one else wants, and no one notices when he eventually succeeds. But his old-fashioned decency and dogged determination have won him legions of loyal fans.

The Last Detective

2003
A Very Peculiar Practice
8.2

A young and idealistic Doctor Stephen Daker arrives at Lowlands University to work at the Health Centre, but has to cope with an eccentric set of colleagues.

A Very Peculiar Practice

1986
Capital City
7.0

Capital City is a British television drama programme produced by Euston Films for ITV, broadcast from 26 September 1989 to 20 December 1990 over two series, totalling 23 episodes. Created by Andrew Maclear, the plot focuses on the lives of London investment bankers living and working on the corporate trading floor of international bank Shane-Longman.

Capital City

1989
Madson
7.0

After eight years in prison for a crime he didn't commit – the murder of his wife – John Madson has been released and seeks revenge on the policeman that framed him, DI Rourke. He meets Magda, a feisty barrister, willing to help him legally and also gets him a job as an outside clerk in her chambers. As the wheels of justice grind slowly forward, Madson begins to rebuild his life and feels the need to help Magda's other clients, who the law appears to be treating unfairly.

Madson

1996
Litvinenko
7.4

The story of the determined Scotland Yard Officers who worked to prove who was responsible for the death of Alexander Litvinenko, in one of the most complex and dangerous investigations in the history of the Metropolitan Police.

Litvinenko

2022
Sleepers
7.3

Amidst the thaw of glasnost, the Kremlin discovers that two Soviet agents, sent to England under deep cover in 1965, have been "lost." A beautiful and ambitious Russian agent, sent to London to track them down, becomes embroiled in a tangle of CIA, KGB and MI-5 plots and counter-plots as the two lost agents, now utterly assimilated, try to avoid detection.

Sleepers

1991
Material Girl
3.0

Drama about dreams, love, clothes and how we all use them to run away from who we are and towards who we should be.

Material Girl

2010
The Tall Guy
5.7

An American actor in England tries to find love and work.

The Tall Guy

1989
Sleepers
N/A

Amidst the thaw of glasnost, the Kremlin discovers that two Soviet agents, sent to England under deep cover in 1965, have been “lost.” A beautiful and ambitious Russian agent, sent to London to track them down, becomes embroiled in a tangle of CIA, KGB and MI-5 plots and counterplots as the two lost agents, now utterly assimilated, try to avoid detection.

Sleepers

1991
B&B
8.0

An out-of-work architect turns his house into a bed and breakfast hotel.

B&B

1992
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N/A

Screen One movie that is a continuation of Andrew Davies' brilliant series A Very Peculiar Practice. Dr. Daker feels finally settled in his life in Poland with his new wife and son, but he soon find things to be just as tumultuous, not least because Bob Buzzard is still around. And is that those nuns again?

A Very Polish Practice

1992