Anna Geislerová

She is best known for her role of Eliška in the Academy Award-nominated movie Želary (2003) and as Anna in Návrat idiota (1999).

[1] Born in Prague in 1976, Geislerová's rise to fame began at the age of 14 when she landed the leading role in Filip Renč's Requiem pro panenku (1991).

Her numerous acting credits include Jan Svěrák's Jízda in 1994 as well as the film adaptation of Michal Viewegh's acclaimed novel Výchova dívek v Čechách (1997).

[2] Geislerová has been nominated four times for a Czech Lion (Czech Academy Award) winning twice; first for Best Actress in 1999 for her performance in Saša Gedeon's The Idiot Returns, and again in 2003 for Ondřej Trojan's Želary, which was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

[4] Geislerová and her husband Zdeněk Janáček have a daughter Stella, and sons Bruno and Max.