100 Notable alumni of
Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
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The Academy of Performing Arts in Prague is 120th in the world, 44th in Europe, and 2nd in the Czech Republic by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Milan Kundera
- Enrolled in the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
- Studied in 1949-1952
- Occupations
- dramaturgeuniversity teachernovelistwritertranslator
- Biography
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Milan Kundera was a Czech and French novelist. Kundera went into exile in France in 1975, acquiring citizenship in 1981. His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, but he was granted Czech citizenship in 2019.
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Václav Havel
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- writerhuman rights activistpoetphilosopherfilm director
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Václav Havel was a Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright, and dissident. Havel served as the last president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until 1992, prior to the dissolution of Czechoslovakia on 31 December, before he became the first president of the Czech Republic from 1993 to 2003. He was the first democratically elected president of either country after the fall of communism. As a writer of Czech literature, he is known for his plays, essays and memoirs.
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Miloš Forman
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- directorscreenwriterplaywrightfilm producerfilm actor
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Jan Tomáš "Miloš" Forman was a Czech-American film director, screenwriter, actor, and professor who rose to fame in his native Czechoslovakia before emigrating to the United States in 1968. Throughout Forman's career he won two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, three Golden Globe Awards, a Golden Bear, a César Award, and the Czech Lion.
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Emir Kusturica
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- screenwritercomposeractorprose writerfilm producer
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Emir Kusturica is a Serbian film director, screenwriter, actor, film producer and musician. Kusturica has been an active filmmaker since the 1980s.
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Agnieszka Holland
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- theatrical directorscreenwriterdirectorfilm directorwriter
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Agnieszka Holland is a Polish film and television director and screenwriter, best known for her cultural and political contributions to Polish cinema. She began her career as an assistant to directors Krzysztof Zanussi and Andrzej Wajda, and emigrated to France shortly before the 1981 imposition of the martial law in Poland.
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Karel Roden
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- stage actorfilm actoractor
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Karel Roden is a Czech actor, popularly known for his roles in Hellboy and The Bourne Supremacy, and his voice work in Grand Theft Auto IV.
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Jiřina Bohdalová
- Enrolled in the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
- Studied in 1957
- Occupations
- actorfilm actorstage actorchild actorvoice actor
- Biography
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Jiřina Bohdalová is a Czech actress.
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Jan Švankmajer
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- photographerdraftspersonscreenwriterfilm directorgraphic artist
- Biography
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Jan Švankmajer is a Czech retired film director, animator, writer, playwright and artist. He draws and makes free graphics, collage, ceramics, tactile objects and assemblages. In the early 1960s, he explored informel, which later became an important part of the visual form of his animated films. He is a leading representative of late Czech surrealism. In his film work, he created an unmistakable and quite specific style, determined primarily by a compulsively unorthodox combination of externally disparate elements. The anti-artistic nature of this process, based on collage or assemblage, functions as a meaning-making factor. The author himself claims that the intersubjective communication between him and the viewer works only through evoked associations, and his films fulfil their subversive mission only when, even in the most fantastic moments, they look like a record of reality. Some of the works he created together with his wife Eva Švankmajerová.
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Josef Abrhám
- Enrolled in the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
- Studied in 1962
- Occupations
- film actortelevision actorstage actoractor
- Biography
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Josef Abrhám was a Czech film and theatre actor.
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Vojtěch Dyk
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- singeractorlyricist
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Vojtěch Dyk is a Czech actor and singer. The son of the literary critic Radko Pytlík, as a singer he is known for being frontman of musical groups Nightwork and Tros Discotequos.
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Jiří Menzel
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- film directoractorpedagoguescreenwriterwriter
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Jiří Menzel was a Czech film director, theatre director, actor, and screenwriter. His films often combine a humanistic view of the world with sarcasm and provocative cinematography. Some of these films are adapted from works by Czech writers such as Bohumil Hrabal and Vladislav Vančura.
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Veronika Žilková
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- screenwriteractorpedagogue
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Veronika Žilková is a Czech actress.
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Radoslav Brzobohatý
- Enrolled in the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
- Studied in 1954
- Occupations
- film actoractortelevision actor
- Biography
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Radoslav Brzobohatý was a Czech film and television actor.
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Ivan Trojan
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- film actorscreenwriterstage actoractor
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Ivan Trojan is a Czech actor, widely considered to be one of the greatest Czech actors of all time. With four Czech Lions for Best Actor in a Leading Role, he has also won two for his supporting roles in Seducer and One Hand Can't Clap, making him the most awarded performer at the Czech Lion Awards.
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Jan Tříska
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- film actortelevision actorstage actoractor
- Biography
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Jan Tříska was a Czech actor who played over 160 roles across stage, film, and television. He worked in the United States after emigrating there in the 1970s, but later returned to his native country following the Velvet Revolution. He was a three-time Czech Lion Award nominee, for Best Actor in Leading Role (Lunacy, 2005), and twice for Best Supporting Actor (Rád, 1994; Up and Down; 2004).
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Simona Stašová
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- actor
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Simona Stašová is a Czech stage, filmm and television actress. Since making her theatre debut in 1976, she has acted on stage in theatres and appeared in numerous films and television productions. Stašová has won multiple awards for her acting, both inside her native Czech Republic and internationally.
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Iva Janžurová
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- stage actorfilm actoractor
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Iva Janžurová is a Czech actress. She attended school in České Budějovice and in 1963, she graduated from the Faculty of Theatre at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. In 1964, she became the main member of Vinohrady Theatre and since 1988 has been a member of the National Theatre in Prague. She has appeared in many films, such as Což takhle dát si špenát, Marecek, Pass Me the Pen!, and the television series Hospital at the End of the City. In 1998 and 2002, she was awarded the Czech Lion for Best Actress.
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Ivana Chýlková
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- film actortelevision actorstage actoractor
- Biography
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Ivana Chýlková is a Czech actress. She appeared in more than eighty films since 1983.
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Ondřej Sokol
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- screenwritertelevision actorstage actorfilm directordirector
- Biography
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Ondřej Sokol, is a Czech actor, director, television presenter and translator.
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Jana Hlaváčová
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- film actorpoliticianstage actorpedagogueactor
- Biography
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Jana Hlaváčová was a Czech actress. She starred in the film Operace Silver A under director Jiří Strach in 2007. Hlaváčová died on 13 January 2024, at the age of 85.
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Martin Stropnický
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- actorpoliticiandirectorwriterdiplomat
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Martin Stropnický is a Czech politician and diplomat who served as the minister of Foreign Affairs from December 2017 to June 2018, and was previously minister of Defence from 2014 to 2017. From 2 January 1998 to 22 July 1998 he also served as the minister of Culture. Before entering politics, he was an actor, songwriter, author and director.
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Anna Polívková
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- actor
- Biography
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Anna Polívková is a Czech actress.
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Hana Maciuchová
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- pedagogueactorfilm actorstage actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Hana Maciuchová was a Czech film, television and stage actress. She studied at the Faculty of Theatre in Prague. She was awarded the Czech Medal of Merit in 2010.
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Jiří Lábus
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- actorfilm actorscreenwriterstage actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Jiří Lábus is a Czech actor. His brother is the Czech architect Ladislav Lábus.
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Tomáš Klus
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- recording artistsingeractorpentathleteguitarist
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Tomáš Klus is a Czech musician and songwriter from the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic.
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Věra Chytilová
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- pedagoguescreenwriterfilm directordirector
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Věra Chytilová was an avant-garde Czech film director and pioneer of Czech cinema. Banned by the Czechoslovak government in the 1960s, she is best known for her Czech New Wave 1966 film Sedmikrásky (Daisies). Her subsequent films screened at international film festivals, including Vlčí bouda (1987), which screened at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival, A Hoof Here, a Hoof There (1989), which screened at the 16th Moscow International Film Festival, and The Inheritance or Fuckoffguysgoodday (1992), which screened at the 18th Moscow International Film Festival. For her work, she received the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Medal of Merit and the Czech Lion award.
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Jiří Schmitzer
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- actorpoetguitaristsinger-songwritertelevision actor
- Biography
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Jiří Schmitzer is a Czech actor and musician, the son of actor Jiří Sovák. He is a four-time holder of the Czech Lion Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.
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Marek Vašut
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- photographerchild actorgraphic artistfilm actorstage actor
- Biography
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Marek Vašut is a Czech film, stage, and television actor, best known for his appearances in Solomon Kane and Blade II. He voiced the character Tommy Angelo for the Czech version of the video game Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven. Vašut later reprised his role as Tommy in the 2020 remake Mafia: Definitive Edition.
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Daniela Kolářová
- Enrolled in the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
- Studied in 1964-1968
- Occupations
- stage actorfilm actoractor
- Biography
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Daniela Kolářová is a Czech actress.
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Kateřina Brožová
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- presentersingeractor
- Biography
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Kateřina Brožová is a Czech actress and singer.
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Hynek Čermák
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- photographeraudiobook narratordirectoractor
- Biography
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Hynek Čermák is a Czech actor.
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Oldřich Kaiser
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- stage actoractortelevision actorscreenwriterwriter
- Biography
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Oldřich Kaiser is a Czech television, film, and stage actor known mostly for his comedic roles.
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Jiří Kodet
- Occupations
- film actortelevision actorstage actoractor
- Biography
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Jiří Kodet was a Czech actor. He appeared in more than ninety films between 1951 and 2003. His mother Jiřina Steimarová and his daughter Barbora Kodetová are also actresses.
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Luděk Munzar
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- directorvoice actorwriterdub actoraudiobook narrator
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Luděk Munzar was a Czech actor. He appeared in the Czech New Wave film The Joke (Jaromil Jireš, 1969) and starred in the film Poslední propadne peklu under director Ludvík Ráža in 1982.
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Josef Koudelka
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- photographerphotojournalist
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Josef Koudelka is a Czech-French photographer. He is a member of Magnum Photos and has won awards such as the Prix Nadar (1978), a Grand Prix National de la Photographie (1989), a Grand Prix Henri Cartier-Bresson (1991), and the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography (1992). Exhibitions of his work have been held at the Museum of Modern Art and the International Center of Photography, New York; the Hayward Gallery, London; the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; and the Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
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Jenovéfa Boková
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- violinistactor
- Biography
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Jenovéfa Boková is a Czech actress and violinist. At the 2018 Czech Lion Awards she won the category of Best Actress, for her performance in the film Moments. For her performance in the 2013 film Revival, she received a nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the 2013 Czech Lions, but the winner was announced as Jaroslava Pokorná. She is the daughter of political activist John Bok and younger sister of Czech actress Kristýna Boková.
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Jakub Kohák
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- actorscreenwriterdirectorfilm directorwriter
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Jakub Kohák is a Czech actor and film director. He is best known for directing commercials and has been an actor in a number of films including Tiger Theory and The Good Plumber.
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Eva Holubová
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Eva Holubová is a Czech actress. She is known for having cured herself of alcoholism. She received a Czech Lion Award in 2000 for her supporting role in the film Ene Bene, and in 2006, she won the award for Best Actress at the Tribeca Film Festival for her role in Účastníci zájezdu.
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František Němec
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- actorpedagogue
- Biography
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František Němec is a Czech actor, dubber, and theater pedagogue.
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Jiří Štěpnička
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- stage actorfilm actoractor
- Biography
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Jiří Štěpnička is a Czech actor and dubber.
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Hana Vagnerová
- Occupations
- actorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Hana Vagnerová is a Czech stage and television actress.
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David Švehlík
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- actorchild actortelevision actor
- Biography
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David Švehlík is a Czech actor.
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Saša Rašilov
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- directoractor
- Biography
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Saša Rašilov is a Czech film and stage actor. He studied at the Faculty of Theatre in Prague, later performing on stage at theatres including the Theatre on the Balustrade. He is the grandson and namesake of Czechoslovak actor Saša Rašilov (1891–1955). He was married to actress Vanda Hybnerová, with whom he has two daughters, between 1993 and 2014. His younger brother Václav Rašilov (born 1976) is an actor as well.
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Ondřej Havelka
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- directorscreenwritermusicianfilm directorjazz musician
- Biography
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Ondřej Havelka is a Czech jazz and swing singer, actor, and director.
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Dana Batulková
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- actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Dana Batulková is a Czech actress.
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Jana Preissová
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- pedagogueactorteacher
- Biography
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Jana Preissová is a Czech film and stage actress. She won a Czech Lion for Best Supporting Actress at the 1994 Czech Lion Awards, for her role in the film Řád. She has also been recognised as the Best Female Performance twice at the František Filipovský Awards for dubbing, in 1995 and 1998.
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Goran Marković
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- screenwriterfilm directordirectoractor
- Biography
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Goran Marković is a Serbian film and theatre director, screenwriter, writer, and playwright. He has directed approximately 50 documentaries, 13 feature films, and 3 theatre plays. He has also written five books.
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Juraj Herz
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- screenwriterfilm directordirectoractor
- Biography
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Juraj Herz was a Slovak film director, actor, and scene designer, associated with the Czechoslovak New Wave movement of the 1960s. He is best known for his 1969 horror/black comedy The Cremator, often cited as one of the best Czechoslovak films of all time, though many of his other films achieved cult status. He directed for both film and television, and in the latter capacity he directed episodes of a French-Czech television series based on George Simenon's Maigret novels.
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Martin Hofmann
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- actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Martin Hofmann is a Czech actor.
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Jiří Krampol
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- directorscreenwriterwriterdub actorpainter
- Biography
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Jiří Krampol is a Czech film and theatre actor.
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Viktor Preiss
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- voice actorpedagoguefilm actorfilm directortelevision actor
- Biography
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Viktor Preiss is a Czech actor. He popularly known for his roles in Hospital at the End of the City or Give the Devil His Due. He starred in dozens of Czech films and television programs, including the film Operace Silver A under director Jiří Strach in 2007.
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Martin Dejdar
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- film producertelevision presenteractortelevision actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Martin Dejdar is a Czech actor, writer, comedian, director, television presenter, producer and entertainer.
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Halina Pawlowská
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- writeractorscreenwriterjournalistdramaturge
- Biography
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Halina Pawlowská is a Czech playwright, short story writer, journalist and editor. She has worked as a screenwriter and show presenter for Czech television.
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Jitka Schneiderová
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- actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Jitka Schneiderová is a Czech film, television and stage actress. She studied at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno. She acted at Studio Ypsilon in Prague between 1996 and 2003. Schneiderová took part in the Czech television series StarDance in 2015, finishing second with dancing partner Marek Dědík behind winners Marie Doležalová and Marek Zelinka.
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Klára Melíšková
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- stage actorfilm actoractor
- Biography
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Klára Melíšková is a Czech stage and film actress. She is married to the actor Lukáš Hlavica, daughter-in-law of actor and painter Miloš Hlavica and actress Růžena Merunková and sister-in-law Anna Bendová.
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Barbora Poláková
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- actorfilm actorsingerstage actorsongwriter
- Biography
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Barbora Poláková is a Czech actress and singer.
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Martin Štěpánek
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- film directorstage actorpoliticianwriterfilm actor
- Biography
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Martin Štěpánek was a Czech actor, journalist and politician. He joined Mirek Topolánek's First Cabinet as Culture Minister in September 2006, serving in the position until January 2007. He was the son of actor Zdeněk Štěpánek. In 1981 he emigrated to Austria. In 1983 he moved to Munich, where he spent a significant part of his career working for Radio Free Europe. In Munich he joined Czech language exile Masonic Lodge U tří hvězd, which moved to Czechoslovakia in 1990, today part of the Grand Lodge of the Czech Republic. Štěpánek died in Prague in September 2010 due to suicide.
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Jiří Strach
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- actorscreenwriterfilm directortelevision actorchild actor
- Biography
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Jiří Strach is a Czech film director and actor. He directed the film Operace Silver A in 2007. In 2016, Strach directed Angel of the Lord 2, a sequel to Angel of the Lord (2005).
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Juraj Jakubisko
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- graphic artistcamera operatorvisual artistfilm directorcinematographer
- Biography
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Juraj Jakubisko was a Slovak film director. He directed fifteen feature films, between 1967 and 2008. He often took on the dual role of cinematographer in his films, as well as writing or co-writing the scripts. In 2000 he was named the Best Slovak Director of the 20th century by film critics and journalists. His work is often described as magical realism.
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Nina Divíšková
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- pedagogueactorfilm actorstage actorteacher
- Biography
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Nina Divíšková was a Czech actress. She appeared in more than seventy films since 1967. She was the wife of the film director Jan Kačer. Her sister is ceramist Tamara Divíšková.
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Jan Svěrák
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- directorscreenwriterproduct managerfilm screenwriterfilm producer
- Biography
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Jan Svěrák is a Czech film director. He is the son of screenwriter and actor Zdeněk Svěrák. He studied documentary filmmaking at the FAMU. He and his films have received awards including the Academy Award, Crystal Globe, Golden Globe Award, and Tokyo Grand Prix.
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Barbora Hrzánová
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- film actorsingeractor
- Biography
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Barbora Hrzánová is a Czech actress and musician. She won the Alfréd Radok Award for Best Actress in 1994 for her role in the play The Seagull at the Theatre on the Balustrade in Prague. At the 2003 Thalia Awards, she won Best Actress in a Play for her role in Hrdý Budžes at the Antonín Dvořák Theatre in Příbram. She is married to actor Radek Holub, with whom she often performs on stage.
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Jiřina Jirásková
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- actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Jiřina Jirásková was a Czech actress. She was born and died in Prague, Czech Republic.
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Vladimír Čech
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- actorpresenter
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Vladimír Čech was a Czech actor, presenter and politician.
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Tomáš Töpfer
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- screenwriterpoliticiantheatrical directorstage actordirector
- Biography
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Tomáš Töpfer is a Czech film and television actor and politician. He was named Best Actor at the 1995 Alfréd Radok Awards. At the 2006 Thalia Awards he won the category of Best Actor in an Operetta or Musical.
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Vilma Cibulková
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- actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Vilma Cibulková is a Czech film and stage actress. She won a Czech Lion for Best Supporting Actress at the 2003 Czech Lion Awards, for her role in the film Pupendo. At the 2006 Thalia Awards she won the category of Best Actress in a Play, before being awarded another prize in the same category at the 2014 Thalia Awards for her performance of the role of Leni Riefenstahl in a production of Leni at the Divadlo v Řeznické. She also won a prize at the 32nd Moscow International Film Festival, being named Best Actress for her role in An Earthly Paradise for the Eyes.
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Vítězslav Jandák
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- actorpolitician
- Biography
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Vítězslav Jandák is a Czech actor and politician who served as the Minister of Culture of the Czech Republic in Cabinet of Jiří Paroubek from 2005 to 2006. He also served as Member of the Chamber of Deputies (MP) from 2006 to 2013 and from 2013 to 2017.
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Patrik Hartl
- Enrolled in the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
- Studied direction
- Occupations
- theatrical directordirectorfilm directorwriterplaywright
- Biography
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Patrik Hartl is a contemporary Czech novelist, playwright and theatre director.
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Jan Kačer
- Enrolled in the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
- In 1960 studied directing
- Occupations
- pedagoguetheatrical directorpoliticianuniversity teacherstage actor
- Biography
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Jan Kačer was a Czech actor and theatrical director. He appeared in more than sixty films from 1960 onwards.
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Simona Postlerová
- Enrolled in the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
- Graduated with Master of Fine Arts
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Simona Postlerová was a Czech film, stage and television actress.
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Jaroslav Satoranský
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- actorpedagogue
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Jaroslav Satoranský is a Czech actor. He belongs to famous Czech stage players and also to film actors.
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Václav Vorlíček
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- screenwriterfilm directorfilm screenwriter
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Václav Vorlíček was a Czech film director. He studied filmmaking at FAMU from 1951 to 1956, and began directing feature films since the early 1960s. His filmography includes several comedies made in collaboration with screenwriter Miloš Macourek. He directed several children's and fairytale films, most notably Tři oříšky pro Popelku (1973), a Christmas film classic in many European countries.
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Radek John
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- screenwriterpoliticianwriterjournalist
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Radek John is a Czech journalist, writer, screenwriter and politician who served as the Minister of Interior from 2010 to 2011 and as Leader of the Public Affairs party from 2009 to 2013. His novel Memento is the first book examining the drug problem in the context of the former communist Czechoslovakia. The novel was translated into ten languages.
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Pavel Landovský
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- screenwriterstage actorfeuilletonistactortelevision actor
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Pavel Landovský, nicknamed Lanďák, was a Czech actor, playwright, and director. He was a prominent dissident under the communist regime of former Czechoslovakia.
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Pavla Tomicová
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- screenwriterfilm actoractor
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Pavla Tomicová is a Czech actress. She won the Alfréd Radok Award for Best Actress in 1999 for her role of Maryša in the play Maryša - po pravdě však "Mařka" at the Klicpera Theatre in Hradec Králové. Tomicová has acted in various films, including Boredom in Brno, Rafťáci and Hrubeš a Mareš jsou kamarádi do deště.
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Vanda Hybnerová
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- photographerscreenwriterfilm directoractor
- Biography
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Vanda Hybnerová is a Czech stage and film actress. After studying at the Faculty of Theatre in Prague, she appeared in various theatres in Prague. She was named the Best Actress in a Play at the 2004 Thalia Awards. Following her award, she has appeared in numerous television series and films.
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Jan Hartl
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- actor
- Biography
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Jan Hartl is a Czech actor who played Karel Horák in the 2000 Czech film Little Otik, also known as Otesánek. He was born in Prague, Czech Republic (then part of Czechoslovakia). Hartl is a member of the National Theatre in Prague.
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Ladislav Mrkvička
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- stage actorpedagogueactortelevision actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Ladislav Mrkvička was a Czech actor.
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Zdeněk Troška
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- directorfilm directorscreenwriter
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Zdeněk Troška is a Czech film director and screenwriter. He mainly directs comedies and fairy-tale films.
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Jiří Bělohlávek
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- pedagoguecellistconductormusic educator
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Jiří Bělohlávek, CBE was a Czech conductor. He was a leading interpreter of Czech classical music, and became chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra in 1990, a role he would serve on two occasions during a combined span of seven years (1990–92, 2012–17). He also served a six-year tenure as the chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra from 2006 to 2012. He gained international renown and repute for his performances of the works of Czech composers such as Antonín Dvořák and Bohuslav Martinů, and was credited as "the most profound proponent of Czech orchestral music" by Czech music specialist Professor Michael Beckerman.
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Naďa Konvalinková
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- stage actorfilm actoractor
- Biography
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Naďa Konvalinková is a Czech actress.
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Barbora Seidlová
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- actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Barbora Seidlová is a Czech actress.
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Goran Paskaljević
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- film screenwriterfilm producerscreenwriterfilm directorcostume designer
- Biography
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Goran Paskaljević was a Serbian and former Yugoslav film director.
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Marta Vančurová
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- actor
- Biography
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Marta Vančurová is a Czech actress. She has finished the Faculty of Theatre (Prague) and appeared in more than 30 films and television shows since 1970. In 2019, she performed in several shows at the Theatre Studio DVA.
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Michaela Badinková
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- actor
- Biography
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Michaela Badinková is a Slovak actress.
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Vladimír Brabec
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- actordub actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Vladimír Brabec was a Czech actor.
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Ivan Passer
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- screenwriterfilm directorfilm screenwriter
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Ivan Passer was a Czech film director and screenwriter, best known for his involvement in the Czechoslovak New Wave and for directing American films such as Born to Win (1971), Cutter's Way (1981) and Stalin (1992).
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Karel Kachyňa
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- directorscreenwriterfilm screenwriterteachercomics writer
- Biography
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Karel Kachyňa was a Czech film director and screenwriter. His career spanned over five decades.
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Rudolf Jelínek
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- film actortelevision actorstage actoractor
- Biography
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Rudolf Jelínek was a Czech film actor. He appeared in more than 122 films and television shows between 1955 and 2016 and participated in the dubbing of more than 60 films and television series. He played one of his most famous roles in the television series Thirty Cases of Major Zeman. He was awarded honorary citizenship of Kutná Hora (2015). Jelínek died on 10 August 2024, at the age of 89.
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Eliska Krenková
- Enrolled in the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
- Graduated with Master of Fine Arts in acting
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- child actoractor
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Eliška Křenková is a Czech film and television actress. Křenková's film credits include Winter Flies, A Certain Kind of Silence and Princess Lost in Time. Her television credits include Wasteland, Specialisté and Sever.
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Jan Němec
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- film actorscreenwriterfilm directordirectorpedagogue
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Jan Němec was a Czech filmmaker whose most important work dates from the 1960s. Film historian Peter Hames has described him as the "enfant terrible of the Czech New Wave."
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Ladislav Trojan
- Occupations
- actor
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Ladislav Trojan was a Czech actor.
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Lordan Zafranović
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- politicianfilm directorscreenwriter
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Lordan Zafranović is an eminent Croatian-Czech-Yugoslav film director known for his World War II trilogy consisting of Occupation in 26 Pictures (1978), The Fall of Italy (1981), and Evening Bells (1986), all co-written with Mirko Kovač (writer), for his experimental black and white early work, which mark him as a major figure of the Yugoslav Black Wave, and for his dauntless exploration of Ustaše crimes during the NDH period.
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Rajko Grlić
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- film directorfilm produceractorfilm theoristscreenwriter
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Rajko Grlić is a Croatian film director, producer and screenwriter. He is a professor of film theory at Ohio University and artistic director of the Motovun Film Festival in Motovun, Croatia.
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Josef Suk
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- composerchamber musicianviolinistconductorpedagogue
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Josef Suk was a Czech violinist, violist, chamber musician and conductor. In his home country he carried the title of National Artist.
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Boris Rösner
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- pedagogueactorfilm actorstage actortelevision actor
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Boris Rösner was a Czech actor. He starred in the film Poslední propadne peklu under director Ludvík Ráža in 1982.
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Roman Zach
- Occupations
- composeractortelevision actor
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Roman Zach is Czech actor. He was born 13 June 1973 in Ústí nad Labem, Czechoslovakia.
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Lenka Krobotová
- Occupations
- actorfilm actor
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Lenka Krobotová is a Czech actress. She won the Czech Lion award for Best Supporting Actress in 2014 for her role in the film Díra u Hanušovic. She is the daughter of actor and director Miroslav Krobot and the actress Hana Doulová.
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Miroslav Táborský
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- actortelevision actor
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Miroslav Táborský is a Czech actor who has appeared in Czech television series, as well as in American films.
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Marie Poledňáková
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- publisherscreenwriterfilm directordirectoractor
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Marie Poledňáková was a Czech film director, screenwriter, writer, and media entrepreneur. She graduated from the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in 1970.
