Early life and education Weronika Anna Rosati was born on 9 January 1984 in Warsaw, to Polish-Italian father
Dariusz Rosati, a professor of economics and former member of the
European Parliament, and his wife Teresa, a Polish fashion designer. She has an older brother named Marcin, who is 12 years her senior. When she was two, she moved with her family to
Princeton, New Jersey, where her father worked as a lecturer, and when she was six, they relocated to Switzerland for five years, before returning to Poland. Having spent much of her childhood abroad, she is fluent in English and French. She also studied at the Halina and Jan Machulski Private Acting School in Warsaw. In 2003, she started an acting degree at the
National Film School in Łódź, but after one and a half years, she suspended her studies due to
L for Love filming commitments, and never returned.
Acting career Rosati made her acting debut in 2000 as "Niki" in the Polish television series
Klasa na obcasach, which she followed with numerous guest appearances in other Polish television productions. Her cinematic debut came in
Patryk Vega's 2005 Polish
action drama Pitbull, which was a critical success and has become a
cult film. For her portrayal of Gemma, the main character's (
Marcin Dorociński) love interest, Rosati received two
Golden Duck Award nominations. She reprised the role in the film's television adaptation between 2005 and 2008. Rosati launched her international career with an uncredited cameo in
David Lynch's 2006 film
Inland Empire, followed by an appearance as Mrs. Lawdale in the 2008 horror film
House, which was panned by critics, receiving an
approval rating of 0% on the review aggregator
Rotten Tomatoes. In 2009, she joined the main cast of the Polish adaptation of the Venezuelan soap opera
Jane the Virgin titled
Majka, in which she played Dagmara between 2009 and 2010. In 2010, she portrayed Rojza, a girl working at a fur workshop in
Warsaw Ghetto, in season three of the Polish
World War II television drama series
Days of Honor. She starred as a serial-killer Magdalena in the 2011 French television thriller film
Dame de pique (
Dame of Spades), an adaptation of
Alexis Lecaye's novel of the same name, which was reviewed well by the French newspaper
Le Monde. She also played a journalist named Anna in the 2011
action thriller Largo Winch II, and made a
cameo appearance in
Agnieszka Holland's
Academy Award-nominated 2011
period drama In Darkness. In 2012, Rosati was cast in the recurring role of a
poker dealer Naomi in the
HBO original television series
Luck, and starred as "Pestka", a girl trying to save her younger sister from death, in
Manhunt, a Polish
war thriller directed by Marcin Krzyształowicz. The latter earned Rosati critical praise, and a nomination for the
Polish Academy Award for Best Actress. Rosati also began making more appearances in Hollywood productions that year. She played Livi in the biographical film
The Iceman, Irena in the
crime comedy Stand Up Guys, and Lola in the action film
Bullet to the Head. She also made a guest appearance as Rivka David,
Ziva David's (
Cote de Pablo) mother, in the episode of the American
action police procedural television series
NCIS titled "
Berlin". In her native country, she voiced Dottie in the Polish-language version of the animated film
Planes, a role she reprised in its
2014 sequel, and joined the main cast of season seven of the television series
Hotel 52 portraying Maria Jordan. That May, she was honoured with the
Pola Negri award "Politka", which recognises Polish actors who achieved international success. In 2014, she made a cameo appearance as a girl at a nightclub named Ginger in the HBO miniseries ''
Rosemary's Baby, and took on another voice role as Ilona in the Polish-language version of the animated film The Nut Job''. She also starred as Mira, Kris' (
Agnieszka Grochowska) assistant, in
Krzysztof Zanussi's
psychological drama Obce ciało (
Foreign Body). The film premiered at the
2014 Toronto International Film Festival to mixed reviews. Rosati and Grochowska were nominated for the Polish
Snake Award for Worst On-Screen Duet. and made an appearance as prostitute Agnes in
season two of the HBO anthology crime drama television series
True Detective. The following year, she guest-starred as French agent Delphine Seydoux in an episode of
season 11 of the American
dark fantasy television series
Supernatural, and played Russian man-eater Oksana in a "two-show arc" of season one of the
TBS comedy series
The Detour.
Collider described her performance in the former as "positively dazzling". She also appeared opposite
Nicolas Cage as his character's wife Louise McVay in
Mario Van Peebles' 2016
war disaster film USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage, and voiced Princess Shallia in the Polish-language version of the comedy film
The New Adventures of Aladdin. for which she received a Snake Award nomination for Worst Actress. In the period drama ''
I'll Find You, set in the 1930s and 1940s Poland, directed by Martha Coolidge, she played Ms. Huber, the wife of General Huber (Stephen Dorff). The film premiered at the 2019 Taormina Film Fest. In 2019, Rosati began portraying Marta, one of three lead roles, in the Polish television series Zawsze warto'', which spanned two seasons between 2019 and 2020. Rosati starred in the 2020 drama
Never Gonna Snow Again directed by
Małgorzata Szumowska and
Michał Englert, which premiered in the Main competition of the
77th Venice International Film Festival to critical acclaim. She lent her likeness to Marianne in the 2021
psychological horror video game
The Medium, for which she was fully
motion-captured, and appeared as Vanya in
season 12 of
NCIS: Los Angeles that year. Rosati will executive produce the upcoming film adaptation of
William Shakespeare's play
King Lear titled
Lear Rex. In 2010, Polish director
Andrzej Żuławski, whom she dated between 2007 and 2008, released a book titled
Nocnik, which included a character allegedly based on Rosati named Esther. She sued Żuławski and the book's publisher for violation of her right to privacy and dignity as a woman as the book included intimate details about her. They were ordered to issue an apology and pay her 100,000
zł damages in 2015. In September 2013, Rosati was a passenger in a car driven by her then-partner, Polish actor
Piotr Adamczyk, which was involved in a road accident. Due to a leg injury sustained in the accident, she was unable to walk and required several surgeries and continual long-term
physiotherapy, which prevented her from working for several months. Rosati and Adamczyk broke up in 2015. She was engaged to Polish orthopedic surgeon Robert Śmigielski with whom she was in a relationship between 2016 and 2018. She gave birth to their daughter, Elizabeth Valentina, on 11 December 2017. As of 2020, Rosati splits her time between homes in Warsaw and Los Angeles. While in a relationship with Śmigielski, Rosati experienced
domestic abuse. She later became an advocate for domestic abuse victims. In 2019, she founded the Siła Kobiety Foundation (Woman's Strength Foundation), which offers help and support to women affected by domestic abuse. and was honoured with the Polish
Glamour Woman of the Year award for Activism. Rosati was included on the annual list of the 100 most valuable stars of the Polish show business compiled by the Polish edition of
Forbes magazine between 2012 and 2014. She ranked 84th, 85th, and 83rd, respectively. She was the Polish ambassador of
Procter and Gamble hair products
Pantene (2004), Dr Irena Eris skin care line and fragrance Sin Skin (2007–2008), and
Avon Products fragrance Femme (2014). She participated in
season 10 of
Taniec z gwiazdami (Polish version of
Dancing with the Stars) in 2009, was a guest judge alongside her mother on the second season of
Project Runway Poland in 2015, In 2021, she launched a vegan skin care brand Lajuu. ==Filmography==