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Jana Synková
Synková in 2012
Born(1944-04-18)18 April 1944
Prague, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Died28 December 2024(2024-12-28) (aged 80)
Mníšek pod Brdy, Czech Republic
OccupationActress
SpouseJan Schmid

Jana Synková (18 April 1944 – 28 December 2024) was a Czech actress.

Biography

Jana Synková was born during World War II in Prague, then the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Her maternal grandparents were well-known theater personalities and she attended an acting club from an early age.

After graduating from high school, Synková was accepted to the theater in Mladá Boleslav for a year. She studied acting at the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (DAMU) and graduated in 1967. During her studies, she attended the Maringotka experimental theatre from 1964 to 1965. In 1967 she got her first engagement at the F. X. Šalda Theatre in Liberec, where she played several supporting roles. In 1969 she joined the ensemble of the Naive Theatre in Liberec. In the 1970s, there were important changes in theater culture here, with the formation of the Ypsilon Theatre, which moved to Prague at the end of 1978. Here, Synková developed comedic skills with a preference for the grotesque. She toured all over Europe with the Ypsilon Theatre. In 1974, she received the Literature Fund's Creative Award.

From the mid-1960s, she appeared in small film roles, including in the 1969 film Faráruv konec. After the Ypsilon Theatre moved to Prague, more opportunities to work in film and television arose, so that she took on several supporting roles in the 1970s and 1980s. In the 1990s, larger roles followed, for example, she played Aunt Kateřina in the 1994 film Saturnin, for whose performance she was nominated for the Czech Lion Awards as Best Supporting Actress. In 1996 she played a psychologist in the film Kamenný most, in the three parts of the film project Byl jednou jeden polda. In the television series Život na zámku she played the director. In 2019 she was again nominated for the Český lev for Best Supporting Actress for the film Chata na prodej.

Personal life and death

Synková married Jan Schmid (1936–2024) in 1974, with whom she had two children. She died in December 2024, half a year after her husband, after a long illness, in a sanatorium in Mníšek pod Brdy.

References

  1. ^ "Jana Synková – Biografie" (in Czech). Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze. Retrieved 2023-07-29.
  2. Český film : herci a herečky III, s. 303.
  3. "Celebrity pod lupou: O tetě Kateřině aneb Jaká je opravdu Jana Synková". KINOTIP2.cz (in Czech). 13 April 2024.
  4. ^ Jana Synková at IMDb
  5. "Zemřela herečka Jana Synková. Tetě Kateřině ze Saturnina bylo 80 let" (in Czech). 2024-12-28. Retrieved 2024-12-28.
  6. "Zemřela herečka Jana Synková (†80): Teta Kateřina i Kudláková z Poldy manžela přežila o šest měsíců!". blesk.cz (in Czech). 2024-12-28. Retrieved 2024-12-28.

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