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Marcin Dorociński

Marcin Dorociński

Known For Acting
Birthday Jun 22, 1973 (52)
Birthplace Milanówek, Poland
Popularity 1 (history)
Updated Feb 25, 2026
Entry Date Apr 13, 2024
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Marcin Grzegorz Dorociński (Polish: [ˈmart͡ɕin dɔrɔˈt͡ɕiɲskʲi]; born 22 June 1973) is a Polish film, television and stage actor. He is known for playing roles in such films as Pitbull(2005), Reverse (2009), Rose (2011), Jack Strong (2014), Hurricane (2018) and Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Pa ... rt One (2023), as well as internationally produced TV series Spies of Warsaw (2013) and The Queen's 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 Vega's 2005 film Pitbull, which brought him the Zbyszek Cybulski Award. He is a two-time Polish Film Festival award winner for his  Reverse (2009) and Rose (2011) roles.  The latter also earned him the IFFI Best Actor Award at India's 43rd International Film Festival. In 2012, he appeared in Magdalena Łazarkiewicz's 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, co-produced by the and Telewizja Polska. In 2020, he joined the cast of the Netflix drama miniseries The Queen's Gambit, starring Anya Taylor-Joy. 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 twenty-two 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 Sudół's son from a previous relationship, Jakub. Description above from the Wikipedia article about Marcin Dorociński, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

2025

as Sevastopol - Captain

Anthropoid

Anthropoid

2016

as Ladislav Vanék

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Organization Category Movie
Television Credits

Camera Cafe

as Julian

Episodes: 78

First Aired: Mar 01, 2004

Miasteczko

as Marek

Episodes: 61

First Aired: Mar 27, 2000

Pitbull

as Sławomir Desperski "Despero"

Episodes: 31

First Aired: Dec 15, 2005

Fala zbrodni

as Michał Wagner

Episodes: 31

First Aired: Nov 07, 2003

Into Deep Water

as Wiktor Okulicki

Episodes: 25

First Aired: Jun 14, 2011

The Pact

as Piotr Grodecki

Episodes: 12

First Aired: Nov 08, 2015

Erinyes

as Edward Popielski

Episodes: 12

First Aired: Oct 25, 2022

Bez tajemnic

as Szymon Kowalczyk

Episodes: 9

First Aired: Oct 17, 2011

Cape Town

as Christian Coolidge

Episodes: 6

First Aired: Jul 04, 2016

Przedwiośnie

as Antoni Lulek

Episodes: 6

First Aired: Mar 23, 2002

The Queen's Gambit

as Vasily Borgov

Episodes: 5

First Aired: Oct 23, 2020

Sfora

as oficer UOP

Episodes: 4

First Aired: Oct 06, 2002

Wszystkie pieniądze świata

as "Kukuś"

Episodes: 4

First Aired: Sep 01, 1999

Vikings: Valhalla

as Yaroslav the Wise

Episodes: 4

First Aired: Feb 25, 2022

Fałszerze - Powrót Sfory

as oficer UOP

Episodes: 3

First Aired: Mar 15, 2007

Ekipa

as Krzysztof Tobiasz

Episodes: 3

First Aired: Sep 13, 2007

Spies of Warsaw

as Antoni Pakulski

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Jan 09, 2013

Kryminalni

as Aleksander Buchacz

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 18, 2004

Dom

as student

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Nov 09, 1980

Dom

as pan młody wychodzący z USC na Starym Mieście

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Nov 09, 1980

Marzenia do spełnienia

as Marek Lisowski

Episodes: 0

First Aired: Unknown

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