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hanks to her background and a traditional
household growing up, Agnes speaks fluent
Polish and basic, conversational German.

“When we came home from school, mom would
make us speak Polish. She was very strict
about it.” In terms of learning English, Agnes

says it happens naturally when you are young,
through TV, radio, and being in school and
hearing it all around. Asked how she got into
acting, Agnes told us that she always had a crazy
imagination growing up. In high school drama
class she fell in love with the feeling of making
people laugh, and realized that she really wanted
to act. When senior year of high school came
around and most were making plans for college,
Agnes told her parents she wanted to go to LA
to pursue acting. “It must have been super scary

for my parents, for their young daughter to move
out to this crazy city of LA.” Parents want to see

their children go to college, and there weren’t any
performers in Agnes’ family. Realizing a parallel,
Agnes supposes that, “Maybe my parents

immigrating was a model for me venturing out.
They were so used to going country to country,
and I thought, hey I’m young, I can do it.”

Agnes did make the move obviously, and
ended up working really hard the first few years.

“I was really on my own and doing what I could
to survive. I did commercials and a bunch of
indie films but nothing on the big scale. As anyone
knows in this business, unless you have an ‘in’,
know someone, or have a family member, you
have to work extra hard. But once you get your
first TV credit, the audit ions happen more and
people trust that you can do it and you get bigger
roles and bigger credits.” This is why when asked
if “killer confidence” is enough for a woman to
succeed in Hollywood, Agnes replies that it’s
a big part of it, but you have to have talent to
back it up and the ability to portray a role. “It’s

one thing to be confident in life, and another thing
when there are fifty people around you and you
have to do twenty takes, but at the end of the day
you have to have talent and I think that comes
from working and training. We are always
our own worst critic they say.”

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That is most certainly the truth, and Agnes got deeper telling
us her philosophy to live by. “Life is too short to hold on to

negative thinking. It weighs you down, and you don’t need the
baggage. Plus you learn more when you’re open, and that’s hard
to do because I think naturally as humans we kind of right away
form an opinion, and if you don’t do that, life is so much easier.
Sometimes I’m too harsh about everything. I have learned
not to be so critical of myself, others, and situations.”
In a world often about looks and comparison to others and
competition, it’s refreshing to find someone who works at keeping
a positive attitude and not judging others or holding on to grudges.
Those must be just a few of the qualities that her new fiancé, Luke
Albright loves about her. Describing their relationship, Agnes says
he is her rock and best friend, and that he just gets her. “He’s my

partner in crime. He’s my bestie; we do everything together, we’re
weird, silly, annoy each other, and really know each other.”

They just got engaged two weeks ago, when he proposed while
on vacation in Puerto Rico, on the tiny island of Vieques. However,
there was just one tiny problem, or rather a too tiny band problem.
Agnes was so excited and overwhelmed, with the adrenaline of the
moment that she pushed the ring onto her finger, even though it
was a whole size too small! “I got the ring stuck on my finger!

He had walked me to the edge of this cliff, and I was in flip flops,
and the waves were crashing. I kind of knew something was going to
happen since it was our anniversary, but I didn’t think he was going
to propose right at that moment because he didn’t have a box.”
Turns out he had a tiny pocket in his swim trunks that she didn’t
know about! She says she remembered thinking if it doesn’t go
on, it’s bad luck, so she just shoved it on. “We tried everything to

getit off, from butter, olive oil, coconut oil, icing my hand, and some
things required a couple shots of tequila, but nothing worked! The
worst case scenario was to have it cut off, but I am superstitious and
thought that would be bad luck.” After watching YouTube videos
demonstrating how, they managed to finally get it off with dental
floss. Agnes said it was one of the worst pains she’d ever had,

“I laugh about it now, but I was literally in tears, I can’t believe
this is happening. It was all because I had to get it on at that moment.
I had to!”

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