Education
Born in Nowy Sącz, she attended the National Film School in Łódź from 1976 to 1980.
Born in Nowy Sącz, she attended the National Film School in Łódź from 1976 to 1980.
She immigrated to the United Kingdom in 1984. Kanska"s best known roles on television were as a Polish academic, Grete Gretowska, in the second series of the British Broadcasting Corporation"s A Very Peculiar Practice (1988) (and a sequel, A Very Polish Practice in 1992), as Sirkka Nieminen in Capital City (1990) and as Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) Major Nina Grishna in the British Broadcasting Corporation"s mini-series Sleepers (1991).