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
Thalia Awards
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, she won Best Actress in a Play for her role in ''Hrdý Budžes'' at the
Antonín Dvořák Theatre
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History
The Neo-baroque building of the theat ...
in Příbram.
She is married to actor
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Given name
* Radek Baborák, Czech conductor and French h ...
, with whom she often performs on stage.
Career
Acting
After graduating from Prague's
DAMU
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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
Filip Renč
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Biograph
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's 1992 production ''
Requiem pro panenku'', for which she was awarded at the
Toronto International Film Festival
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. In 1994, she won the Alfréd Radok Award for Best Actress in
Chekhov's play ''
The Seagull
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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
Czech Lion Award 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
Pavel Anděl (born 1966, Cheb) is a Czech actor, musician, writer, dramaturge and television presenter.
He graduated from the grammar school in Cheb. After graduating from briefly acting at Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Pr ...
. 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
Radek Holub Radek is a masculine Christian name of Slavic origin. It is often nickname of Radovan, Ctirad and Radoslav. It is used as a surname and given name. Notable people with the name include:
Given name
* Radek Baborák, Czech conductor and French h ...
.
She is the daughter of actor
Jiří Hrzán,
and her brother-in-law is
Karel Dobrý
Karel Dobrý (born 2 May 1969) is a Czechs, Czech film, television and stage actor. He is known for playing Liet-Kynes in the ''Frank Herbert's Dune, Dune'' 2000 miniseries, and Korba (Dune), Korba in the 2003 sequel ''Frank Herbert's Children of ...
. Her nephew is actor and model
Cyril Dobrý.
Selected filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
*
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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
21st-century Czech women singers
Recipients of the Thalia Award
Academy of Performing Arts in Prague alumni
Czech women songwriters
Czech percussionists
Women percussionists
Czech women rock singers
Czech trumpeters
Women trumpeters