Anna Geislerová is a Czech actress. The recipient of five Czech Lion awards, three for Best Leading Actress and a further two for Best Supporting Actress, Geislerová is best known for her role of Eliška in the Academy Award-nominated movie ''

Želary ''Želary'' is a 2003 Czech/Slovak film directed by Ondřej Trojan and starring Anna Geislerová. The film received a 2004 Academy Award nomination in the Best Foreign Language Film category. It was produced by Barrandov Studios in Prague. T ...

'' (2003) and as Anna in '' The Idiot Returns'' (1999).

Career

Born in Prague in 1976, Geislerová's rise to fame began at the age of 14 when she landed the leading role in Filip Renč's '' Requiem pro panenku'' (1991). Her numerous acting credits include

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's ''Jízda'' in 1994 as well as the film adaptation of

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's acclaimed novel ''Výchova dívek v Čechách'' (1997). Geislerová has won multiple Czech Lion awards. She won Best Supporting Actress in 2000 for her performance in

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's '' The Idiot Returns'', before winning Best Leading Actress in 2004 for

Ondřej Trojan Ondřej Trojan () (born 31 December 1959) is a Czech film producer, actor and film director. Two of the films he produced were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film : '' Divided We Fall'' (2000) and ''Želary'' (2003), w ...

's ''

'', which was also nominated for the

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. In 2006 Geislerová again won a Czech Lion, this time for Best Supporting Actress in the film '' Something Like Happiness''. The following year she won a Best Leading Actress Czech Lion for her performance in '' Kráska v nesnázích''. She received her fifth Czech Lion award overall, after winning Best Leading Actress at the 2012 ceremony, for ''

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'' directed by

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. In 2004, she was named one as European films' Shooting Stars by

European Film Promotion European Film Promotion (EFP) is an organisation with a mission of promoting European films internationally. A network of 38 national film promotion institutes which represent films from their respective territories. Under the EFP flag, the member ...

. Geislerová is part of the Shooting Stars jury 2010, which selected 10 European up-and-coming actors from the group of nominees for receiving the Shooting Star Award 2010 in February at the

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Personal life

Geislerová has three children from her former marriage to Zdeněk Janáček, a daughter Stella, and sons Bruno and Max. She has two sisters, and

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; and her aunt Zuzana is also an actress.

Filmography

Awards

;Notes *A Award shared with co-star

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for her role of Olga in the same movie by

. *B Award shared with

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for her role of Julia Lambert in ''

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'' (2004) directed by

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References

External links

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Anna Geislerová at Shooting Stars

CSFD.cz – Anna Geislerová (Czech)

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