Occupation Actor Name Zdenek Sverak Spouse Bozena Sverakova | Years active 1968 – present Role Actor | |
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Born 28 April 1936 (age 87) ( 1936-04-28 ) Prague, Czechoslovakia Children Jan Sverak, Hanka Jelinkova Movies Three Brothers, Kolya, Empties, The Elementary School, Kooky | ||
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Zdeněk Svěrák (born 28 March 1936 in Prague) is a Czech actor, humorist and scriptwriter. He is one of the most popular Czech cultural personalities. In 1989, he was a member of the jury at the 39th Berlin International Film Festival.
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In 1958, he graduated in Czech language and literature at the Faculty of Education of Charles University in Prague. He has worked in a wide variety of capacities. His work contains more than 300 musical texts, plays and more than ten movies. Among his film scripts are Kolya (Czech: Kolja, Academy Award winning film) and The Elementary School (Czech: Obecná Škola, nomination for Academy Award), both directed by his son Jan Svěrák. With his close friend Ladislav Smoljak, he created the fictional personality (universal genius, inventor, sportsman, criminalist, poet, writer and philosopher) Jára Cimrman who won the voting for The Greatest Czech in 2005 (only the fact that Cimrman is fictional prevented him from actually winning). Zdeněk Svěrák also founded a charity organization Paraple (in English, "Umbrella") which focuses on helping paralyzed individuals.
Svěrák has won three Magnesia Litera awards for his writing. Firstly in 2004 he won the Readers' Choice award for his book Jaké je to asi v čudu. He went on to win the same award in 2012 for the book Nové povídky. His third Readers' Choice award came in 2014 for Po strništi bos.
Zden k sv r k herec sc narista humorista a prvn ze 100 state n ch v rozhovoru s luci v bornou
