Chýlková Ivana

She is one of the most prominent and most popular Czech actresses. She got her first permanent theatre engagement at the age of 25 at the Drama Studio in Ústí nad Labem. By that time she had already studied at the Ostrava Conservatory and acting at the DAMU in Prague. At the beginning of the 1990s she was a member of Divadlo Na zábradlí for two years. In 1993 she began her twenty-year collaboration with the Drama Club in Prague, but the audience also liked her in musical roles at the Karlín Musical Theatre and Studio DVA. For her portrayal of the matchmaker Dolly in the musical Hello, Dolly!, the Thalia jury selected her for a wider nomination for Best Performance in the Musical category. For her role of Savina in the play The Mask and the Face, which she still plays at the Drama Club, she received the Sazka Award for acting. She has been given film and television roles since her studies at DAMU. Since the premiere of her first film in 1983, Faun's Very Late Afternoon, she has starred in dozens of film and television projects of various genres (e.g. in the series Of Animals and People, He's a Woman, Hop or Trope, Private Traps, Kriminálka Anděl, The Invisibles, or in the films Time of the Servants, Victims and Murderers, I Must Seduce You, Perfect Days, Donšajni, Vejška, Laputa). He has three mirrors at home. She won the Czech Lion in 1994 for the role of Olga in Thanks for Every New Morning. In 1993, she also won the Grand Prix d'Or at the Cannes Television Festival for her portrayal of the main character Marta in the drama Girlfriend from the House of Sorrow. In the spring of 2016, she participated in the television singing reality show Your Face Has a Famous Voice.