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Jana Janěková

ActorBorn June 5, 1955 (69 years)
Doc. Jana Janěková, born Válková (* June 5, 1955 Zlín), is Czech actress, director, photographer and theater pedagogue, sister conductor Roman Válka.

He comes from an artistic family, his father was a musician, a choirmaster and a pedagogue, a well-known musician is her younger brother Roman. At the Prague Conservatory in 1976, he studied music and drama.

During her studies she was guest in the E. F. Burian and J. Wolker Theaters. Her first theatrical engagement became East Bohemian Theater in Pardubice, where she worked in 1976-1978, then she played shortly in Hradec Králové. In the years 1979-1981 she played in the Oldřich Stibor Theater in Olomouc, from 1980 to 1985 in Ostrava Bezruč Theater. There was a long-standing engagement at the State Theater in Brno (today's National Theater Brno), where she worked as an actress and director from 1987 to 2005.

In the film and on TV, she appeared sporadically at the beginning, mostly in minor or episodic roles, and later she often performed mainly in Ostrava and Brno studios, where many of the TV productions of Czechoslovak television played key figures. She won her first major role in the first Czech TV sitcom, TV Nova Novác, in 1995, and later starred in other TV series. For the time being, the only significant film role was psychologist Hana in the Czech film director Věra Chytilová.

He co-operates with radio, occasionally dubs, and in addition to acting and theater direction, he has been teaching pedagogical activities at JAMU in Brno since 1991, where he leads a separate atelier of musical acting. She is also active in the field of artistic photography.

(Wikipedia)

Known For

  • Pleasant Moments
  • Death of Hitch-Hikers
  • Nejvetsi z Cechu

Filmography

2024
2022
Jedna rodina (TV Series) · as Cast
2011
2010
Nejvetsi z Cechu · as Vazačova Žena
2010
The Rain Fairy · as Mother Pařízková
2009
Walking Too Fast · as Kádrovacka Simková
2007
Svetla pasáze (TV Series) · as Mrázková
2006
Rules of Lies · as Marcela
2006
2006
Letiště (TV Series) · as Antlová
2000
Sluha dvou pánu · as Clarice
1998
Halt, or I'll Miss! · as Brandejsová
1997
Policeman's Humoresque (TV Series) · as Milena
1995
Newcomers (TV Series) · as Věra Nováková
1984
We are all obliged to School (TV Series) · as Dana Mrázová
1979
Death of Hitch-Hikers · as Eva Klímová
1975
1973

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