Born and raised behind the iron curtain in Poland. Her American debut as an actress was starring as Marina Oswald opposite Gary Oldman in Oliver Stone’s eight time Oscar nominated “JFK”. Beata won the prestigious Voice Arts Award in the "Outstanding Video Game Character, Best Performance" category for voicing Skarlet, the Blood Queen in "Mortal Kombat 11" opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger. A five times Voice Arts Award nominee for her audiobook work. Selected by the Washington Post for the "Best Audiobook of the Year". A two-time Earphones Award Winner for "Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead" by Nobel Prize ... more winner Olga Tokarczuk and "The Light in Hidden Places" by #1 Bestselling New York Times author, Sharon Cameron. She narrated documentaries: "The Officer's Wife" about the mass murder of Polish officers in the Katyn forrest and co-narrated "Freedom from Despair", about communism, for which she won a Croatian Heart Award together with John Savage and Michael York. Classically trained, holds an MFA in Film and Drama Arts. For nearly ten years served on the faculty at USC (Master's Degree Program) and UCLA. less