Beata Pozniak is a renowned actress, director, and poet, with a career spanning over three decades. She has won numerous awards for her performances, including the prestigious Voice Arts Award for her role as Skarlet, the Blood Queen in "Mortal Kombat 11".
Pozniak is a five-time Voice Arts Award nominee and has also been honored by the Washington Post for the "Best Audiobook of the Year". She is a two-time Earphones Award Winner for audiobook narration, having received awards for her work on "Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead" by Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk and "The Light in Hidden Places" by #1 Bestselling New York Times author, Sharon Cameron.
In addition to her work in film and television, Pozniak has also narrated documentaries, including "The Officer's Wife" and "Freedom from Despair", for which she won a Croatian Heart Award. She has also co-produced "An Unknown Country", which received an EMMY Award nomination for Best Documentary.
Pozniak has played a wide range of roles in film and television, including Marina Oswald in Oliver Stone's "JFK", a Holocaust survivor in the experimental film "All These Voices", and a female President of the World in "Babylon 5".
She has also founded Theater Discordia, which was featured at the Los Angeles Theater Festival, and has expanded into Discordia Global Media, where she directs films inspired by real events or by poetry. Pozniak has been named as one of the most important voices in videoart, filmpoems genre in an encyclopedic book "The Poetics of Poetry Film" published by IntellectBooks.
Pozniak is a passionate human rights activist and has introduced the first bill in the history of the US Congress to recognize officially International Women's Day in the United States. She has received numerous awards for her activism, including the Maria Konopnicka International Prize for "Outstanding Achievements in the Arts and for Championing Women's Rights Around the World".
Pozniak holds an MFA in Film and Drama Arts and has been on the faculty at USC (Master's Degree Program) and UCLA. She is a member of the Women's Committee of SAG-AFTRA and has served as a Juror for the EMMY Awards at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
Pozniak's poetry has been translated into Armenian, Polish, and Korean, and her latest anthology is from Africa "I Can't Breathe: A Poetic Anthology of Social Justice". She has been selected as the Poet of the Month by the Seventh Quarry Press and has frequently sat on judging panels for the Television Academy, Primetime Emmy Awards, and has been a Celebrity Presenter for the IFP (Independent Feature Project West) "Independent Spirit Awards," The Firebird Awards.
