Where is Rula Lenska from? Is Rula Lenska polish?

Rula Lenska is a British actress.

Lenska mainly appears in British stage and television productions, but is best known in the United States for a series of commercials for Alberto VO5 hairspray in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Lenska also appeared as Claudia Colby on Coronation Street.

Lenska’s big break was as the Little Ladies band member “Q” in the British TV series Rock Follies (1976) and its sequel, Rock Follies of ’77, the following year.

By this time, Lenska had “discarded” her title as a Polish countess; and famously said of the decision, “In England it doesn’t count, if you’ll excuse the pun.”

Lenska’s film roles have included;

1. Soft Beds,
2. Hard Battles (1974),
3. Confessions of a Pop Performer (1975),
4. Royal Flash (1975),
5. Alfie Darling (1975),
6. It Could Happen to You (1976),
7. The Deadly Females (1976), and
8. Queen Kong (also 1976) as Luce Habit.

In the film Gypo (2005), which was the first UK feature film to be made under Dogme rules, Lenska played a Romani refugee from the Czech Republic living on a caravan site in Margate.

Lenska also starred in the independent British film Jack Says (2008), opposite her one-time EastEnders co-star Mike Reid.

Where is Rula Lenska from?

Lenska was born in England in the village of Diddington, near St Neots, Huntingdonshire, in a Polish refugee camp that had previously been the EVAC American Military Hospital and her birth was registered in nearby St Neots.

Is Rula Lenska polish?

Rula Lenska is known in real life as Róża Maria Leopoldyna Łubieńska and she is of Polish descent.

Rula Lenska’s family members are of the Polish nobility, bearing the Pomian coat of arms, and before the war owned a castle and estate in Kazimierza Wielka, Poland.