Biography
Arek Zasowski is the Telly Award winning, Polish-born, international film actor, talk show host, film director, visual special effects artist, film editor, screenwriter and an independent film and talk show producer. Some of Zasowski's past film credits include: Detective Jack Berdett (2021), Incoming Impact (2020), Call Me (2018), Let Go: Letting Go (2020), Chinese Angel (2017) and the award winning late night talk show Actors by Actors Show (2020). In May 2023, Arek Zasowski won the Bronze Telly Award in Television - Entertainment category with the Episode #1.4 (2022) of the Actors by Actors Show at the 44th Annual Telly Awards in New York City, which honored the innovative, inclusive, and disruptive work that Breaks Through The Static of overwhelming content delivery and consumption.
On the Episode #1.4 (2022) of the Actors by Actors Show, Arek Zasowski interviewed Suzanne Von Schaack, a talented actress (known for Tootsie (1982)), filmmaker, model and bestselling author who shared her lifelong creative career, professional experience and wisdom that can serve as an inspiration to younger generation of starting out actors, models and artists.
Later in 2023, Actors by Actors Show (2020) also won an Audience Award in Best Pilot / Television Episode category at the annual Marina del Rey Film Festival after a week-long film festival held in Los Angeles which screened over 400 unique and diverse independent films from around the world.
Arek Zasowski's work was aired on cable TV in Victoria, Canada, streamed on ShortsDaily Roku TV channel and screened on big screen to live audiences at the iconic world-renowned TCL Chinese Theatres in the heart of Hollywood at the Golden State Film Festival, as well as at various film festivals in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, USA, Canada, Europe and Africa.
Since 2016, which marks the beginning of Arek Zasowski's creative career, Zasowski won multiple film awards, nominations and official selections at various film festivals including: Best Actor, Best Director, Best TV Pilot, and Best Audience Award as well as the Bronze Telly Award.
Arek Zasowski, born Arkadiusz Zasowski in Gliwice, a city in Upper Silesia in southern Poland, where he grew up until he moved to the United Kingdom after graduating and obtaining Master's Degree from Katowice Business University (Górnoslaska Wyzsza Szkola Handlowa 'GWSH') in Katowice, Poland.
Arek Zasowski, began his acting career in London, England, where in 2016 for the first time took part in an adaptation of a country house murder mystery play, The Real Inspector Hound, directed by Valerie Dent, where he recorded his voice for a role of the Radio News Announcer.
In August 2016, Zasowski debuted on the big screen as he starred in two short student films April Fools Day (2016) and You Can Heal Your Life (2016) which were produced and screened at The New York Film Academy in Los Angeles. Both short films were filmed at a backlot of the Universal Studios Hollywood.
In April Fools Day (2016), a short romantic comedy directed by Kevin Luther Apaa, Zasowski played Calvin, a rather funny character with a peculiar sense of humor when it comes to proposing to his girlfriend. In You Can Heal Your Life (2016), drama directed by Sha Peng, Arek Zasowski portrayed Ben, a record producer who was trying to overcome weaknesses from his troubled past.
In March 2017, for the first time, Arek Zasowski wrote, directed and produced a short romantic drama Let Go: The Prelude (2017). The film was filmed on the beautiful island of Cyprus where Zasowski portrayed Henk, an archaeologist, who is struggling to come back to a normal life after losing love of his life his fiancée Tiffany. Later that year, in May 2017, Let Go: The Prelude (2017) was selected to participate in the official program of the Cyprus International Film Festival, ranking in the top 100 best reviewed festivals among 5500 film festivals worldwide according to FilmFreeway and Pafos 2017 the Cultural Capital of Europe. Arek Zasowski's first film festival official selection.
Within the next few years that followed, Arek Zasowski continued to hone his acting and filmmaking craft by training at the numerous acting workshops at the New York Film Academy in Los Angeles, New York City, and in Florence, Italy, learning from experienced actors, acting coaches and industry professionals like: Martin Thompson, Michael Bershad, Christopher Cass, George Russo, Ken Lerner, Anna Maria Cianciulli, Carol Stanzione at the Acting for Film New York Film Academy workshops, as well as during other acting classes and masterclass with Los Angeles based acting coach Sandra K. Horner, acting curses in London with Valerie Dent and Tim Kent at the Actors Studio based at Pinewood Studios; in Edinburgh, UK, and by creating his own work.
Apart from producing films and acting in them, during the pandemic, Arek Zasowski created an award winning Actors by Actors Show (2020), a late night talk show, in which Zasowski strives to inspire other artists and in general support other experienced actors by interviewing them on a virtual soundstage and bringing their story, experience and wisdom to the wider audience.
