A long-time colleague from the set, Tadeusz Chudecki, wrote:
Goodbye Krzysiu, you will be sorely missed!
Magdalena Szejbal also said goodbye to him on her Instagram stories:
Our wonderful friend has passed away. Krzysiu, see you later
On TVP’s Facebook profile we read:
A respected film, theater and television actor 𝗞𝗿𝘇𝘆𝘀𝘇𝘁𝗼𝗳 𝗞𝗶𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘇𝗻𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗸𝗶 is dead. He was well known to viewers of comedy cycles Machulski: 𝗩𝗮𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗸 and 𝗞𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗿, and more recently with roles in TV series The colors of Happiness and blonde and. He was 70 years
Curriculum vitae
He was born and grew up in Warsaw. His mother, Wanda, infected him with his passion for acting, who worked as a clerk in the housing affairs department of the Warsaw City Hall and the culture department of the National Council of the Capital City of Warsaw.and during World War II, risking her life, she reported to Major Zygmunt Szendzielarz Łupaszka . His father, Leopold Kiersznowski, was a Home Army soldier, was promoted to the rank of major and the order of Virtuti Militari for participation in the Warsaw Uprising, and after the war he was sent to prison for several months. His maternal grandfather, Napoleon Banaszewski, a pre-war officer from the Vilnius Region, Siberian, came from Vilnius, after the war he found a job as a ticket collector at the Świt cinema , thanks to which Kiersznowski attended all film screenings, and then also the Współczesny Theater. When his parents divorced, Kiersznowski stayed under the care of his mother, and he saw his father sporadically. It was only years later, when he had started a family himself, that he fixed his relationship with his father. In the years 1957–1964 he attended Primary School No. 48 in Warsaw. Adam Próchnik. Until the age of sixteen, he was aggressive, spending a lot of time on the street in an environment that did not avoid alcohol, drugs and irresponsible games. He was repeating the last year of high school. His friend at the time changed his approach to life. In 1968, after a mock exam, he joined the army, and after serving, he passed his high school diploma. As a teenager, he struggled with stuttering. His neighbor, Andrzej Krasicki, the then director of the Polish Theater, who commissioned him to practice, helped with this ailment. Kiersznowski passed the Acting Department of the Polish National Film, Television and Theater School in Łódź for the first time. He graduated in 1977 and obtained his diploma a year later. At the age of twenty-six, he found his way to Andrzej Wajda’s film Man of Marble (1976), where as a companion he handed out flowers and congratulated Birkut on his record. In 1976, he made his debut on the stage of the Ochota Theater Center for Theater Culture in the role of the head of the play by Jan Paweł Gawlik Egzamin . In 1978, he was noticed at the 19th Festival of Polish Contemporary Plays in Wrocław and received a distinction for the role of the prosecutor in the play Curve flatJan Szymański directed by Jan Machulski at the Ochota Theater in Warsaw, with which he was associated in the years 1977–1980 and 1989–1990. He also performed in Warsaw theaters: Studio (1979-1987), Sceny Presentations (1980-1981), Comedy (1999, 2011), Rampa (2003), Rozmaitości (2006), Polonia (2008, 2016), Capitol (2014), Tm (2016), IMKA , Tenement House (2020). Teatr Polski in Bydgoszcz (1988–1989), Lubuski Theater in Zielona Góra (2006), Teatr im. Adam Mickiewicz in Częstochowa (2007) and Teatr Nowy in Łódź (2010). He became recognizable thanks to supporting film roles in Juliusz Machulski’s productions: as a loser gangster “Nuta”, brother of “Moks” (Jacek Chmielnik) in Vabank (1981) and Vabank II (1984), gangster “Narrow” in Kiler (1997) and Kiler -ach 2-óch (1999), Lieutenant Tarkowski, officer of the Internal Security Agency in Superproduction (2002) and a locksmith in How Much Does the Trojan Horse Weigh? (2008). The role of Father Tereska in Robert Gliński’s psychological drama Hi, Tereska (2001) won him the 2002 Eagle Film Award. He also appeared in Volker Schlöndorff’s historical drama Strajk (2006) and Ballad o Piotrowski (2007) in the title role of a life loser. For the supporting role of Edward Gralewski in Michał Kwieciński’s comedy Statyści (2006), he won an award at the 31st Polish Film Festival in Gdynia and Orła 2007. In 2007 he took the role of Stefan Górka, Kasia’s father (Katarzyna Glinka) in the TVP2 series Colors of Happiness . In the TVN series Twarzą w Face (2007) he played Deputy Inspector Janusz Wnuk, who is investigating the death of a policeman.. He received Golden Lions in 2006 for the best supporting role in the film Statists and the Eagle a year later. He was also nominated for the Eagle Award in 2001 for his performance in Hi, Tereska .
Private life
He was married to a French woman named Martin who worked in diplomacy. They had two children – son Maks (born 1978), an assistant at the Faculty of Law, and daughter Katarzyna (born 1984), who graduated in interior design.
