Alicja Bachleda-Curuś (pron. [aˈlit͡sʲja baˈxlɛda ˈt͡suruɕ]; born 12 May 1983) is a Mexican-born Polish actress and singer, who has appeared in films including Trade, Ondine and Pan Tadeusz.

Bachleda-Curuś was born in Tampico, Mexico. She is the daughter of Lidia and Tadeusz Bachleda-Curuś, a geologist who was working in Mexico at that time. She has a half-sister, Urszula Welenc. Her uncle, Adam Bachleda-Curuś, is the former mayor of Zakopane, Poland.

While growing up in Poland, Bachleda studied at the Elzbieta Armatys' Theater, Music and Dance Studio.^[1][2] She studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York City.

At age 15, Bachleda landed a lead role in the 1999 film Pan Tadeusz, directed by Academy Award-winning Polish director Andrzej Wajda.^{[citation needed]} Four years later, she won a role in Polish soap opera Na dobre i na złe.^{[citation needed]} Bachleda then began crossing over into mainstream films outside Poland, appearing in the German film Sommersturm, a coming of age story, in 2004. Bachleda-Curuś returned to Mexico to film the 2007 thriller Trade, starring Kevin Kline, an unflinching look at the world of human trafficking. Bachleda then returned to Europe to play a Jewish girl in the historical drama The Beheaded Rooster [de], which took place during World War II in Transylvania, Romania. Her next film was 2009's Ondine, a film about an Irish fisherman who thinks he catches a selkie, a mythological seal/human.

In 2012 Bachleda-Curuś starred as Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Poland in September Eleven 1683, and appeared in a lead role in The Girl Is in Trouble.

On 7 October 2009 in Los Angeles, Bachleda-Curuś gave birth to her son with Irish actor Colin Farrell.^[3] He was baptized on 29 December 2009 in the Roman Catholic Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Kraków. It was reported on 15 October 2010 that Farrell and Bachleda-Curuś had separated.