Actress Veronika Žilková (63) He is one of the important personalities of Czech culture. Thanks to the television series My All School (1984), she got into a wider awareness and won the Czech Lion for the inscrading role in the film. In an interview for the confession she confessed that She is glad that Czech-Slovak culture has no problem with each other to compose, to appreciate, respect and cooperate, although some of her colleagues do not have Slovak actresses “in love”.
“So I will say openly why it is. Slovaks are just nicer. Really! I even taught acting at school for twenty years and Personally, I think we should also have Czech actresses, but somehow we are not able to choose more beauties. But you really have pretty girls in Slovakia, ” She told the weekly.
Veronika Žilková was born on 16 October 1961 in Prague. He comes from a family of teacher and flutist Václav Žilka. She became part of the Chorea Bohemica dance and music ensemble as a 17-year-old. After graduation at the grammar school, she first started to study psychology, but eventually elected the Faculty of Theater Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, where she completed the acting field in 1985.
Her film debut was the psychological drama Divka with mussels (1980). She played the main roles in the episode of the series and SE PTAM and the comedy When Divorce, so divorce alongside Jan Čenský. The audience could see her on the screens as a pioneer manager Jana in the family series We All School. The daughter of the Czech composer Leoš Janáček portrayed in the biographical film Leo with Bílá Hřívou and the same genre was introduced a year later as the fiancée of the poet Karel Hynek Mách in the film Mág.
In the 1990s, she stood in front of the camera as a supervisor in prison in a four -part television film Film of Smutka. For the role of the dying Marjánek in the drama of Vladimír Michálka, the forgotten World won the Czech Lion Award.
This prestigious award was also received by her actor Bolek Polívka, who presented himself in the figure of a pastor fighting to save the church and spiritual values. The nomination for the Czech Lion for the main role was also earned for fantasy tuned film grotesque Otsánek Directed by an important creator of animated films, stage designer and artist Jan Švankmajer.
Very popular was the satirical body body broadcast in 2000-2007, in which Žilková performed. Although this sketch show has evoked contradictory reactions on the quality of humor, it cannot be denied high viewership. Saint Veronika played in the fairy tale Angel of the Lord, as well as in its sequel.
In recent years, it has been seen again alongside Bolek Polívka in the fairy tale Alice in the land of miracles or in a romantic comedy hunting. During her acting career she also presented herself in several theater scenes. The Czech actress will also appear in the new romantic series TV JOJ love in Istanbul, which will start on April 21.
