Pawel Szajda

Pawel B. Szajda (Paweł Szajda; born January 13, 1982) is an American screen and stage actor. He is best known for his roles in Under the Tuscan Sun, Generation Kill, Tatarak, and as Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Poletov in the third season of the Apple TV+ original science fiction space drama series For All Mankind. Szajda was born and raised in Farmington, Connecticut. His maternal great-grandfather left Poland for Chicago in 1912 and eventually moved back to the United States with Szajda's grandmother after World War I. Szajda's family relocated to the United States in 1981 due to the introduction of martial law in Poland. He has a younger brother.