100 Notable alumni of
Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
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The Academy of Performing Arts in Prague is 131st in the world, 45th 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
- university teachernovelistplaywrightwriterscreenwriter
- 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 His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, but he was granted Czech citizenship in 2019.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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- opinion journalistdirectorfilm directorphilosopherpoet
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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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- film actorfilm producerplaywrightscreenwriterdirector
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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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- musicianspymanufacturerdirectorfilm director
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Emir Kusturica is a Serbian film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and musician. He also has French citizenship. Kusturica is one of the most distinguished European filmmakers active since the mid-1980s, best known for surreal and naturalistic movies that express deep sympathies for people from the margins. He has also been recognized for his projects in town-building. He has competed at the Cannes Film Festival on five occasions and won the Palme d'Or twice (for When Father Was Away on Business and Underground), as well as the Best Director prize for Time of the Gypsies.
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Agnieszka Holland
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- writerfilm directordirectorscreenwritertheatrical director
- Biography
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Agnieszka Holland is a Polish film and television director and screenwriter, best known for her 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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- actorfilm actorstage actor
- Biography
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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
- stage actorfilm actoractorvoice actorchild actor
- Biography
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Jiřina Bohdalová is a Czech actress.
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Jan Švankmajer
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- directorceramicistfilm screenwritersculptorpainter
- Biography
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Jan Švankmajer is a Czech filmmaker and artist whose work spans several media. He is a self-labeled surrealist known for his stop-motion animations and features, which have greatly influenced other artists such as Terry Gilliam, the Brothers Quay, and many others.
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Josef Abrhám
- Enrolled in the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
- Studied in 1962
- Occupations
- stage actortelevision actorfilm actoractor
- Biography
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Josef Abrhám was a Czech film and theatre actor.
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Jiří Menzel
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- writerscreenwriterpedagogueactorfilm director
- Biography
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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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Vojtěch Dyk
- Occupations
- actorsingerlyricist
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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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Veronika Žilková
- Occupations
- actorscreenwriterpedagogue
- Biography
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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
- actorfilm actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Radoslav Brzobohatý was a Czech film and television actor.
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Jan Tříska
- Occupations
- stage actortelevision actorfilm 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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Ivan Trojan
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- stage actorscreenwriterfilm actoractor
- Biography
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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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Ivana Chýlková
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- actorfilm actorstage actor
- Biography
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Ivana Chýlková is a Czech actress. She appeared in more than eighty films since 1983.
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Martin Stropnický
- Occupations
- diplomatwriterdirectorpoliticianactor
- Biography
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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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Ondřej Sokol
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- directorscreenwritertelevision actoractorpresenter
- Biography
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Ondřej Sokol, is a Czech actor, director, television presenter and translator.
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Iva Janžurová
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- actorfilm actorstage actor
- Biography
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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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Simona Stašová
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Simona Stašová is a Czech stage, film 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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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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- stage actorfilm actoractorpedagogue
- 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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- television actorstage actorscreenwriterfilm actoractor
- 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
- Occupations
- singer-songwriterguitaristactorrecording artistpentathlete
- Biography
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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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Kateřina Brožová
- Occupations
- actorsingerpresenter
- Biography
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Kateřina Brožová is a Czech actress and singer.
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Věra Chytilová
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- film directorscreenwriterpedagoguedirector
- Biography
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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 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
- Occupations
- television actorsinger-songwriterguitaristpoetactor
- 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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- film actorpainteractorgraphic artistphotographer
- 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
- actorfilm actorstage actor
- Biography
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Daniela Kolářová is a Czech actress.
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Hynek Čermák
- Occupations
- actordirectornarrator
- Biography
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Hynek Čermák is a Czech actor.
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Jana Hlaváčová
- Occupations
- stage actoruniversity teacherfilm actorpedagoguepolitician
- 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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Jakub Kohák
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- writerfilm directordirectorscreenwriteractor
- Biography
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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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Josef Koudelka
- Occupations
- photojournalistphotographer
- Biography
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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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Oldřich Kaiser
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- film actorwriterscreenwritertelevision actoractor
- 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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Jenovéfa Boková
- Occupations
- actorviolinist
- 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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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 was nominated for the Best Actress Award at the Tribeca Film Festival for her role in Účastníci zájezdu.
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Luděk Munzar
- Occupations
- audiobook narratordub actorwritervoice actordirector
- Biography
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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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Jiří Štěpnička
- Occupations
- film actoractor
- Biography
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Jiří Štěpnička is a Czech actor and dubber.
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Hana Vagnerová
- Occupations
- screenwriteractor
- Biography
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Hana Vagnerová is a Czech stage and television actress.
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František Němec
- Occupations
- pedagogueactor
- Biography
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František Němec is a Czech actor, dubber, and theater pedagogue.
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David Švehlík
- Occupations
- child actoractortelevision actor
- Biography
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David Švehlík is a Czech actor.
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Goran Marković
- Occupations
- film directorscreenwriteractordirector
- 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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- film directorscreenwriteractordirector
- 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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Ondřej Havelka
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- film directormusicianscreenwriterdirectoractor
- Biography
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Ondřej Havelka is a Czech jazz and swing singer, actor, and director.
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Dana Batulková
- Occupations
- film actoractor
- Biography
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Dana Batulková is a Czech actress.
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Saša Rašilov
- Occupations
- actordirector
- 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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Jana Preissová
- Occupations
- pedagogueactor
- 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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Klára Melíšková
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- actorfilm actorstage actor
- 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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Martin Dejdar
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- film actortelevision actoractortelevision presenterfilm producer
- Biography
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Martin Dejdar is a Czech actor, writer, comedian, director, television presenter, producer and entertainer.
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Viktor Preiss
- Occupations
- television actorpedagogueillustratoractor
- 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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Jiří Krampol
- Occupations
- dub actorwriterscreenwriterdirectoractor
- Biography
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Jiří Krampol is a Czech film and theatre actor.
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Jitka Schneiderová
- Occupations
- film actoractor
- 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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Barbora Poláková
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- songwriterstage actorsingerfilm actoractor
- Biography
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Barbora Poláková is a Czech actress and singer.
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Halina Pawlowská
- Occupations
- opinion journalistpublisherdramaturgewriterscreenwriter
- 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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Martin Hofmann
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- film actoractor
- Biography
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Martin Hofmann is a Czech actor.
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Martin Štěpánek
- Occupations
- directorphotographeractorfilm actorwriter
- 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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Juraj Jakubisko
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- directorscreenwriterfilm screenwriterillustratorcinematographer
- 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, and is often also credited as a screenplay writer as he usually co-writes or writes the scripts of his movies. In 2000 he was named Best Slovak Director of the 20th century by film critics and journalists. His work is often described as magical realism.
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Jiří Strach
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- television actorfilm directorscreenwriteractorchild 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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Nina Divíšková
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- actorpedagogueteacher
- 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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Vladimír Čech
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- actor
- Biography
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Vladimír Čech was a Czech actor, presenter and politician.
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Jan Svěrák
- Occupations
- film producerfilm screenwriterproduct managerscreenwriterdirector
- 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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Jiřina Jirásková
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- film actoractor
- Biography
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Jiřina Jirásková was a Czech actress. She was born and died in Prague, Czech Republic.
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Barbora Hrzánová
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- actorsingerfilm actor
- 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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Tomáš Töpfer
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- teacherpedagoguetheatrical directorscreenwriterpolitician
- 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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Vítězslav Jandák
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- politicianactor
- 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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Václav Vorlíček
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- film directorscreenwriterfilm screenwriter
- Biography
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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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Pavla Tomicová
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- actorfilm actorscreenwriter
- Biography
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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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Jiří Bělohlávek
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- conductorcellistpedagoguemusic teacher
- Biography
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Jiří Bělohlávek, 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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Jaroslav Satoranský
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- pedagogueactor
- Biography
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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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Radek John
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- journalistwriterpoliticianscreenwriter
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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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- stage actorfilm actorplaywrightwriterscreenwriter
- Biography
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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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Ladislav Mrkvička
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- child actoractorpedagogue
- Biography
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Ladislav Mrkvička was a Czech actor.
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Vanda Hybnerová
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- actorphotographerscreenwriter
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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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Zdeněk Troška
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- film directordirectorscreenwriter
- Biography
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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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Naďa Konvalinková
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- actorfilm actorstage actor
- Biography
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Naďa Konvalinková is a Czech actress.
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Goran Paskaljević
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- costume designerfilm directorscreenwriterfilm producerfilm screenwriter
- Biography
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Goran Paskaljević was a Serbian and former Yugoslav film director.
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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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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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Barbora Seidlová
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- film actoractor
- Biography
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Barbora Seidlová is a Czech actress.
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Ivan Passer
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- film directorscreenwriterfilm screenwriter
- Biography
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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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Jan Kačer
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- teacherpedagoguepoliticiandirectoractor
- Biography
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Jan Kačer is a Czech actor and film director. He appeared in more than sixty films since 1960.
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Vladimír Brabec
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- dub actoractortelevision actor
- Biography
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Vladimír Brabec was a Czech actor.
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Karel Kachyňa
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- actorfilm directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Karel Kachyňa was a Czech film director and screenwriter. His career spanned over five decades.
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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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Jan Němec
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- university teacherpedagoguedirectorfilm directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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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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Patrik Hartl
- Enrolled in the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
- Studied direction
- Occupations
- writerfilm directordirectortheatrical directorplaywright
- Biography
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Patrik Hartl is a contemporary Czech novelist, playwright and theatre director.
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Ladislav Trojan
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- actor
- Biography
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Ladislav Trojan was a Czech actor.
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Eliska Krenková
- Enrolled in the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
- Graduated with Master of Fine Arts in acting
- Occupations
- actorchild actor
- Biography
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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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Lordan Zafranović
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- film directorpoliticianscreenwriter
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Lordan Zafranović is a Croatian-Czech-Yugoslav film director. He was a major figure of the Prague Wave.
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Josef Suk
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- conductorviolinistchamber musiciancomposerpedagogue
- Biography
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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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- television actorstage actorfilm actoractorpedagogue
- Biography
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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
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- actorcomposertelevision actor
- Biography
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Roman Zach is Czech actor. He was born 13 June 1973 in Ústí nad Labem, Czechoslovakia.
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Rajko Grlić
- Occupations
- university teacherscreenwriterfilm theoristactorfilm producer
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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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Marie Poledňáková
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- writeractordirectorfilm directorscreenwriter
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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.
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Lenka Krobotová
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- film actoractor
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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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- television actoractor
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Miroslav Táborský is a Czech actor who has appeared on Czech television series, as well as in American movies.
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Lenka Termerová
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- pedagogueactor
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Lenka Termerová is a Czech film, stage and television actress. She won the Czech Lion award for Best Supporting Actress in 2008 for her role in the film Děti noci. She is the mother of actress Martha Issová.
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Helena Třeštíková
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- dramaturgedirectorpedagogueuniversity teacherdocumentarian
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Helena Třeštíková is a Czech documentary film director, member of the European Film Academy, and briefly the Czech Republic's Culture Minister. She resigned from the position in January 2007 after serving less than three weeks.
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Helena Štáchová
- Enrolled in the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
- Studied in 1966
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- directordub actortheatre manageractorscreenwriter
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Helena Štáchová was a Czech puppeteer, voice actress and playwright. Štáchová served as the head and director of the Spejbl and Hurvínek Theatre (S+H), which opened in 1930 as former Czechoslovakia's first professional puppet theatre, from 1996 until she died in 2017. She also provided the voice of popular puppets, Mánička and Mrs. Kateřina, who are the female equivalents of the Spejbl and Hurvínek puppet characters.
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Marek Taclík
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- television actoractor
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Marek Taclík is a Czech actor. He starred in the film Operace Silver A under director Jiří Strach in 2007.
