Barbora Hrzánová (born 22 April 1964) 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

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, she won Best Actress in a Play for her role in ''Hrdý Budžes'' at the

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in Příbram. She is married to actor

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, with whom she often performs on stage.

Career

Acting

After graduating from Prague's

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, Hrzánová joined the National Theater. In 1993, she moved to the Theatre on the Balustrade. Her first prominent film role was in

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's 1992 production '' Requiem pro panenku'', for which she was awarded at the

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. In 1994, she won the Alfréd Radok Award for Best Actress in Chekhov's play ''

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''. Following this, she spent ten years at Divadlo v Řeznické in Prague, also appearing at Divadlo Na Jezerce. She has been nominated for a

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three times: for Best Supporting Actress in '' Thanks for Every New Morning'' (1994), '' Conspirators of Pleasure'' (1996), and ''Modrý tygr'' (2012). She won a Thalia Award in 2003 for her performance in the production ''Hrdý Budžes''.

Other projects

The actress is a member of the band Bára Hrzánová & Condurango, which she formed in the 1980s with fellow DAMU alumnus Pavel Anděl. She is the band's primary songwriter, as well as singing and playing percussion and the trumpet. She has also coauthored the book ''Vinnetou naší doby: Velký tajem staré lišky Báry Hrzánové'', together with magazine editor Richard Erml.

Personal life

Hrzánová is married to

. She is the daughter of actor Jiří Hrzán, and her brother-in-law is

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. Her nephew is actor and model Cyril Dobrý.

Selected filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hrzanova, Barbora 1964 births Living people Actors from České Budějovice Czech television actresses Czech stage actresses Czech film actresses 20th-century Czech actresses 21st-century Czech actresses Czech women singers Recipients of the Thalia Award