Multi-award winning actress, graduated from Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Teatralna in 1971. She already had played in two films by that time. These films have become landmarks of whole Szykulska’s career. Her first role was of sensual Mrs. Jola in Andrzej Kondratiuk’s legendary “Hydrozagadka” (1970). The second – Karen Petersen in a film adaption of Zbigniew Nienacki’s novel “Pan Samochodzik”. Szykulska starred in many Russian, Bulgarian, Finnish, German and Hungarian films.