- Her maternal grandparents, Henryka and Bronislaw Puczynski were longtime members of the Cathedral Choir in the city of Czestochowa.
- Friends from the Polish Film Industry encouraged her to write scripts.
- Started acting as a teenager.
- She speaks fluent English, Polish and Russian, and moderately German.
- She is a Mezzo-Soprano.
- She lost her father Lech when she was 4 years old. He was fatally run over by the Polish Communist Police (Milicja) on a local road close to their house. Years later, her nephew Damian was killed in a bicycle accident at a tender age of 19 on the same road and less than a mile away from where her father was killed. Damian was an up and coming poet, whose talent was compared to the great Polish poet, Krzysztof Kamil Baczynski.
- She is the second child of Wirginia (a teacher and a historian) and Lech (an entrepreneur).
- She is also actively involved in promoting the Polish Film Festival in Los Angeles.
- Kasia also had her own column in the widely read Polish Weekly (Tele Tydzien) and her articles were published in the main Polish Daily (Gazeta Wyborcza).
- She won many poetry performance competitions as a youth in her native Poland.
- She loves to dance. Involved in ballet from a young age, but ballroom was always closer to her heart.
- Her sons Antoni Leconte and Fabian Leconte started acting and modeling career, when they were 5 years old. They are already fluent in English and Polish. Antoni and Fabian become recognizable in the artistic world in the US and Poland as well.
- Smiechowicz is also the head of Kasia Films - an international film and television production company.
- Her paternal grandparents, Zofia and Jozef Smiechowicz were merchants in her hometown of Lodz, with her grandfather serving as mayor of Gadka Stara for several years.
- Has an older brother Radoslaw Smiechowicz (father to Damian, Roksana and Joseph), and a younger sister Magdalena Warsinska-Kowalczyk (from her mother's second marriage to Krzysztof Warsinski). Magdalena was a child actor (I Skrzypce Przestaly Grac), but decided to become a fashion and jewelry designer, creating the jewelry line "Jantarka.pl".
- Interested in Numerology.
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