Zdeněk Rohlíček (born 20 July 1980 in
Prague
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) is a Czech actor known especially for his stage work.
Early life
Rohlíček gained his first dramatic experience as a child by performing
puppet shows
Puppetry is a form of theatre or performance that involves the manipulation of puppets – inanimate objects, often resembling some type of human or animal figure, that are animated or manipulated by a human called a puppeteer. Such a performan ...
, appearing in made-for-television fairy tales, and
choral singing
A choir ( ), also known as a chorale or chorus (from Latin ''chorus'', meaning 'a dance in a circle') is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform or in other words ...
while in music school. He graduated from
Prague Conservatory
The Prague Conservatory () is a public music school in Prague, Czech Republic, founded in 1808. Currently, the school offers four- or six-year courses, which can be compared to the level of a high school diploma in other countries. Graduates c ...
in 2002.
Theatre
After graduating from the conservatory, Zdeněk Rohlíček worked as an
actor
An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. ...
for a short time in The Metro Theater in Prague, and in The Black Theater of Frantisek Kratochvil. Since 2004 he has been performing at the
J. K. Tyl Theatre in
Plzeň
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. He has also appeared as a guest actor in The Alfa Theater, and he has taken part in several annual summer theatrical festivals in Plzeň and in
Nebílovy
Nebílovy () is a municipality and village in Plzeň-South District in the Plzeň Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 400 inhabitants.
Nebílovy lies approximately south of Plzeň and south-west of Prague.
Demographics
Sights
Nebílovy ...
.
Film and television
Rohlíček appeared in several television productions and fairy tales directed by
Vlasta Janeckova and
Moris Issa during his childhood. Later he also played alongside
Vlasta Chramostova in
Pavel Kohout
Pavel Kohout (born 20 July 1928) is a Czech and Austrian novelist, playwright, and poet. He was a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, a Prague Spring participant and dissident in the 1970s until he was not allowed to return from A ...
's adaptation of ''PF 77'', playing Peter, a student who signed
Charter 77
Charter 77 (''Charta 77'' in Czech language, Czech and Slovak language, Slovak) was an informal civic initiative in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic from 1976 to 1992, named after the document Charter 77 from January 1977. Founding members ...
.
*prince - ''O moudre Sorfarine'' (1995)
*Peter - ''PF 77'' (2003)
*Sigmund Freud (20) - ''The Question of God: S. Freud & C.S.Lewis'' (2004)
*son - ''To nevymyslis (ep. Babicka inkognito)'' (2005)
*Milos - ''Celebrity s.r.o (Theater)'' (2007)
*Howard - ''Moon over Buffalo (Theater)'' (2007)
See also
*
J. K. Tyl Theatre
References
External links
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Living people
1980 births
Male actors from Prague
Czech male film actors
Czech male stage actors
Czech male television actors
Prague Conservatory alumni