Giegżno graduated from the acting department of the Academy of Theater Arts named after Stanisław Wyspiański in Krakow in 2019. In 2021 she remembered her teaching in an interview with Sylwia Pyzik for Interia. “I am glad that I came to Krakow. (…) Of course, after years I see that the school must change. Young people come to acting completely differently. The myth of the actor, hierarchy, or fuchsówka, which has practically disappeared, must go to a thing of the past, because they no longer agree to the present time. Young people are simply not agreeing to such humiliation or violence, about which it was recently in our world.”
She did not hide that her studies gave her a lot. “First of all, the workshop with which I feel that I can work and expand it. I do not feel a layman on the set, I think that largely thanks to the great educators with whom I could encounter. I remember this time very nice, also because of the people I was able to meet. These are also memories related to the crazy life of the student in Krakow,” she confessed.
Before she came to the Krakow AST, she worked as a model. In an interview with Małgorzata Czop for the portal “Movieway” she admitted that this experience helped her prepare for the profession of actress. “In China, where I worked, I had 10-15 castings a day and sometimes it became a routine for me. I also gained a greater distance to my body” – she explained. “This three -month journey was a beautiful experience. Sometimes I think I would like to go back there.”
Emma debuted as a student – on a small screen in 2017 for the second season of “Belfra”. In 2019, “Underdog” by Maciej Kawulski entered theaters, in which she played the daughter of the character played by Aleksandra Popławska. Interestingly, the actresses later met on the set of the series “Szadź”. They played their mother and daughter again. In an interview with the world of series, Popławska stated that “working with Emma Giegżno is a pleasure.”
In 2019, her second film also premiered, the criminal comedy “on the bank”, telling about three pensioners who decide to organize a great jump. Giegżno played a young policewoman. “I think that this film is about the accounts of young people with the generation of our grandparents, which sometimes, which is unpleasant, we forget” – she said before the premiere of the film. In the following years, we could watch it, among others, in the series “The Crown of Kings. Jagiellons” and “Matilda”.
Her sister Matilda, five years younger, is also an actress. In an interview with Sylwia Pyzik, Emma admitted that she had a great impact on her decision to start her career. “Matilda was growing in the feeling that I was talking about this profession in superlatives. She did not quite have a specific path herself. In the end she said that she also wants to take to school. The first time she did not succeed and then I told her that since she had a break and she does not do anything, then maybe we would press her on a photo day, so that she would see what it was about and she called her. The cast and I said that I had a nice sister who also wants to immerse myself in acting and asked if there is a promise, “she recalled.
As it turned out, a young girl was just sought for one of the main roles in “Klangor” with Arkadiusz Jakubik. “Matilda simply swept everyone. She came in, infected the surroundings with her energy and got a very nice role, from which this new path actually began for her,” said the older sisters.
To the question of whether the competition appears between them, she answered: “I think that sisterhood is based somewhere on an unconscious, or sometimes conscious competition. Such an artistic basis is very present in me and in my sister. Matylda something even cooler.
Matylda Giegżno recently received excellent reviews for her role in the melodrama “photosensitive” of Tomasz Śliwa. Earlier, we could see her, among others, in the series “Brocco” and the film “Kos” by Paweł Maślona.