Simona Stašová (born 19 March 1955) 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.
Career
Stašová studied at the
Faculty of Theatre in Prague. After graduating, she acted at the in
České Budějovice
České Budějovice (; german: Budweis ) is a city in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 93,000 inhabitants. It is located in the valley of the Vltava River, at its confluence with the Malše.
České Budějovice is t ...
in 1976. Between 1977 and 1991, she acted at in Prague.
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Stašová was nominated for an Elsa television award in 2004, for her role in the ]Česká televize
Czech Television ( cs, Česká televize, italics=no ; abbreviation: ČT) is a public television broadcaster in the Czech Republic, broadcasting seven channels. Established after the Velvet Revolution in 1992, it is the successor to Czechoslov ...
production ''Místo nahoře''.Thalia Awards
The Czech ''Actors' Association'' has presented its annual Thalia Awards (Czech: Ceny Thálie) since 1993. The award is named after Thalia, the muse of comedy. The 2016 ceremony was broadcast by Česká televize and radio station .
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she won the category of Best Actress in a Play, for her performance of the role of ''Evy Meara'' in a production of Neil Simon
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's ''The Gingerbread Lady
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'' ( cs, Drobečky z perníku) at the Antonín Dvořák Theatre
The Antonín Dvořák Theatre is an opera house in Ostrava, Czech Republic, which opened in 1907. Since 1919 it has been one of two permanent venues of the National Moravian Silesian Theatre.
History
The Neo-baroque building of the theatre wa ...
in Příbram
Příbram (; german: Freiberg in Böhmen, ''Przibram'', or ''Pribram'', in 1939–1945 ''Pibrans'') is a town in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 32,000 inhabitants. It is well known for its mining history, and more ...
.Seoul International Drama Awards
Seoul International Drama Awards (), simply known as SDA, is an annual award ceremony based in Seoul, South Korea which honors excellence in television drama productions worldwide.
Winners
Grand prize (''Daesang'')
Program
Winners are given ...
in 2015.
Personal life
Stašová is the daughter of Czech actress Jiřina Bohdalová
Jiřina Bohdalová (born 3 May 1931 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, now the Czech Republic) is a Czech actress.
Career
She began acting in theatre and film at an early age. She was accepted to The Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts ...
and Břetislav Staš, who are divorced.Pavel Trávníček
Pavel Trávníček (born October 26, 1950) is a Czech actor. He has appeared in more than 70 film and television productions since 1971, most of them produced in Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic, occasionally in Germany.
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, Italian professor Eusebio Ciccotti and Czech actor Pavel Skřípal. Stašová has two sons, Marek and Vojta, from her marriages to Ciccotti and Skřípal respectively.
Selected filmography
Films
*'' Incomplete Eclipse'' (1982)
*''Jako kníže Rohan
''Jako kníže Rohan'' is a Czech language, Czech drama film. It was released in 1983.
Cast
*Vladimír Menšík as Špáta
*Ludmila Roubíková as Špátová
*Jana Gýrová as Baruška
*Věra Galatíková as Pacačka
*Ladislav Pešek as Žežul ...
'' (1983)
*''Cosy Dens
''Cosy Dens'' ( cz, Pelíšky) is a 1999 Czech film directed by Jan Hřebejk. It is loosely based on the novel '' Hovno Hoří'' (Czech: "Flaming Feces") by Petr Šabach. It was voted the best Czech film by ''Reflex'' magazine in 2011.
Plot su ...
'' (1999)
*'' Divided We Fall'' (2000)
*''Victims and Murderers
''Victims and Murderers'' ( cs, Oběti a vrazi) is a 2000 Czech drama film directed by Andrea Sedláčková. It was entered into the 23rd Moscow International Film Festival.
Cast
* Karel Roden as Miroslav
* Ivana Chýlková as Jana
* Monika Hil ...
'' (2000)
*''Román pro ženy
''Román pro ženy'' is a Czech comedy film based on the 2001 novel of the same name by Michal Viewegh. It was released in 2005. The Czech title means "A Novel for Women" but the film is known in English as ''From Subway With Love''.
Cast
* Zuza ...
'' (2005)
*''Men in Hope
''Men in Hope'' ( cs, Muži v naději) is a 2011 Czech romantic sex comedy film written and directed by Jiří Vejdělek.
Plot
Ondřej ( Jiří Macháček), a timid and reserved man, is in a monotonous marriage with Alice (Petra Hřebíčkov ...
'' (2011)
Television
*''Youngest of the Hamr's Family
''The Youngest of the Hamr Family'' ( cs, Nejmladší z rodu Hamrů) is a Czechoslovak television series which was first broadcast in 1975. The show was written by Jaroslav Dietl and directed by Evžen Sokolovský Evžen, a Czech men's given nam ...
'' (1975)
*'' Arabela'' (1979)
*''Přítelkyně z domu smutku'' (1992)
*''Místo nahoře'' (2004)
*'' Sebemilenec'' (TV film, 2013)
Awards and nominations
References
External links
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1955 births
Living people
Actresses from Prague
Academy of Performing Arts in Prague alumni
Czech film actresses
Czech television actresses
Czech stage actresses
20th-century Czech actresses
21st-century Czech actresses
Recipients of the Thalia Award