Eva Klepáčová (2 May 1933 – 18 June 2012) was a Czech actress, voice actor and presenter. One of her best known film roles is the character Kate from Czech Fairy tale '' Playing with the Devil'' (1956) directed by Josef Mach. She was also well known as a dubbing actress. In 2007, The Presidium of the Actors Union presented her with the Award for Lifetime Achievement in dubbing. She appeared in 19 films and television shows between 1955 and 1996.

Early life

Eva Klepáčová was born Eva Beatrix Klepáčová on 2 May 1933 in Prague, former Czechoslovakia. He father, Antonín Klepáč, was a dancer at the National Theatre, her mother Kamila Klepáčová (née Vlášková) was a freelance dancer and actress (she danced in the Vest Pocket Revue at the Liberated Theatre of Jiří Voskovec and Jan Werich). Klepáčová later married actor and singer

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Career

As many other actors from Prague, Eva Klepáčová began her acting career in Disman’s Children Art Radio Ensemble. After graduating from high school she studied at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts and she spent her first theatre season in the North Theatre in Liberec. Then she took permanent position in the Realistic Theatre of Zdeněk Nejedlý at Smíchov (now the Švandovo divadlo at Smíchov). Thanks to her nice voice and cultivated speech, Eva Klepáčová worked as an occasional presenter in Czechoslovak Television, practically from the very beginning of its existence. She applied her excellent voice disposition also in radio work and dubbing. Together with her husband, Josef Zíma, she successfully dubbed, among many others, the main character of Nastenka, from the Russian Fairy tale

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(1964). Zíma narrated her suitor Ivan.

Selected filmography

* ''

Cirkus bude! ''Cirkus bude!'' is a 1954 Czechoslovak comedy film directed by Oldřich Lipský. The film starred Josef Kemr Josef Kemr (20 June 1922 – 15 January 1995) was a Czech actor. He starred in the 1969/1970 film ''Witchhammer'' under director Otak ...

'' (1954) * '' Playing with the Devil'' (1956) * '' Slečna od vody'' (1959) * '' Fantom Morrisvillu'' (1966) * ''

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'' (1967) * '' Když rozvod, tak rozvod'' (1982) * '' Já nejsem já'' (1971) * ''

Jak básníkům chutná život ''How Poets Are Enjoying Their Lives'' () is a 1988 Czechoslovak comedy film directed by Dušan Klein and written by Klein with Ladislav Pecháček. The third installment in the "Poets hexalogy", the title is preceded by ''How the World Is Losi ...

'' (1987) * '' Kolja'' (1996) * '' Mach, Šebestová a kouzelné sluchátko'' (2001)

Television appearances

* '' Pohádka z tisíce a jedné noci'' (1967) * '' Trapasy'' (1969) * ''

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'' (1971) * '' 30 případů majora Zemana'' (1974) * '' Veronika, prostě Nika'' (1980) * '' Nová dvojpohádka z lesa'' (1981) * ''

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'' (1986) * ''

Křeček v noční košili Křeček v noční košili (''Hamster in a Nightshirt'') is a six-part television series for children, which was co-produced by Czechoslovakia and West Germany in 1987 by director Václav Vorlíček. It was first broadcast during the Christmas holi ...

'' (1987) * '' Perníkářka a větrný mládenec'' (1990)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Klepacova, Eva 1933 births 2012 deaths Czech film actresses Czech television actresses Czech voice actresses Actresses from Prague 20th-century Czech actresses 21st-century Czech actresses Academy of Performing Arts in Prague alumni