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Aleksandra Cwen was born in Poland, where she has been working as an actor since the mid-1990s. From 1997 on, she appeared in numerous stage plays at the Jan Kochanowski Theatre. Her performances in David Harrower's "Knives in Hens" (2004), Bertolt Brecht's "Baal" (2007) and Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz' "The Wilko Girls" (2009) won her a number of local theatre awards.
In 2013, Cwen moved to Vienna, where she starred in Lukas Feigelfeld's medium-length film "Interferenz" (AT 2014) and a year later in the short film "La Chambre d'Ortolan" (AT 2015). Her first lead role in a feature film was in Feigelfeld's feature film debut "Hagazussa - Der Hexenfluch" ("Hagazussa - A Heathen's Curse", 2015-2017), a horror film set in the 15th century about a young goatherd that is excluded from society and slowly goes mad. The film was screened at a number of film festivals in Europe and the U.S. and was released in German cinemas in May 2018.