Kamila Magálová (; born 16 November 1950) is a Slovak film and stage actress, singer, and entrepreneur. She is a triple nominee for the TV-based

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. In addition to the performing arts, Magálová runs a hotel named after her in

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Biography

Magálová is the daughter of conductor Ladislav Slovák and sister of actor Marián Slovák. She raised two children, a daughter and a son, who died in 2024. She studied acting at the

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, graduating in 1975. From 1973 to 1982, she was a member of the Poetic Ensemble of the New Stage (Poetický Súbor Novej Scény) in Bratislava, and since 1982, she has been a member of the

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Drama department (Činohra Slovenského Národného Divadla), also in Bratislava. Magálová is known to film audiences as one of the lead characters in the Marie Poledňáková films '' Líbáš jako Bůh'' (2009) and ''

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'' (2012). In 2012, she divorced Slavomír Magál, with whom she has two children, son Martin and daughter Daniela. Kamila has three grandchildren: Maria, Nina, and Gregor. Together with her ex-husband, she is the co-owner of the Kamila Hotel in Čierna Voda,

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, where she also lives. Magálová has been a

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representing Slovakia since 1995.

Selected filmography

Discography

* ''Dvanásť do tucta - Diskotéka Opusu 6'' - Opus 9113 1047 , (1980) - "Vraj si vážny" - Kamila Magálová and Bezinky ( Pavel Zajáček / Peter Petiška,

Tomáš Janovic Tomáš Janovic (22 May 1937 – 14 December 2023) was a Slovak writer, songwriter, journalist and poet. He was best known as an Aphorism, aphorist. Biography Tomáš Janovic was born on 22 May 1937 in Bratislava in a nonobservant Jewish fami ...

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