Rudolf Hrušínský the younger (79) for many years he has been struggling with the loss of red blood cells, and recently his health problems were also compounded by the lungs, for which he had to be hospitalized. According to the newspaper, his third bout of pneumonia in the last year drove him to the hospital bed, and after he was released to home care, the Czech editors wanted to ask him how he was doing. To their surprise, his wife Eva did not pick up the call, but the voice belonged to someone else.
“Rudla is still a teenager, he couldn’t close his eyes at night. You know, a third pneumonia in one year is no fun at his age. But he is much better, he is finishing the antibiotics and will go for a check-up. He doesn’t look to die. Call back later…” she texted unknown woman.
Hrušínsky, who has always guarded his privacy, spoke after this surprise and confirmed what had only been speculated about. “I haven’t lived with my wife for 25 years, she’s had her own life for a long time. I’m with my friend Helena, who now takes very good care of me in the house in Karlík,” he explained to the Czech media.
The legendary actor was born on October 5, 1946 in Prague in the family of the famous Czech actor Rudolf Hrušínský senior. At the same time, he is the older brother of the well-known no less good actor Jan Hrušínský and the father of the famous Rudolf Hrušínský the youngest. He is one of the successors of famous acting families.
After finishing elementary school, he studied accordion and piano at the State Conservatory in Prague. in the post-graduation year transferred to the Theater Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts (DAMU) in Prague, which he graduated in 1974. Then he performed in the Ateliér theater in Prague, and from 1978 he played in the Činoherní klub theater in Prague for twenty seasons. Currently, he mainly plays in the Theater Without Rails and belongs to successful television and film actors.
He appeared, among others, in the films Signum laudis, Cuts, Jára Cimrman lying down, sleeping, Snow Maiden Festival, Dissolved and Discharged, Village My Center, Good Pigeons Return, General School, Black Barons, Accumulator 1, Buttonmakers, I Served the King of England. He played in series such as Cirkus Humberto, Dobrodružstvi krinilistiky, Zdivočelá země, Hospoda, Duch český and Ulice.
Rudolf Hrušinský has three children and his eldest son Rudolf is also an actor. He is also a passionate fisherman, likes to play tennis, likes to paint and owns the U Rudolfa gallery in Tábor and in Planá nad Lužnicí in the Czech Republic. In 1997, Rudolf Hrušinský Jr. won the Czech Film Award Český Lev for the best male performance in a leading role for the film Knoflíkaří.
