Dagmar Bláhová (born 8 March 1949) is a Czech-born actress, who became notable on Australian television in 1985 for her role in soap opera Neighbours as original character Maria Ramsay.
[3] When she began her acting career, Czechoslovakia was under communist rule, so citizens were restricted in their movements outside the country, however, Bláhová's popularity in Europe enabled her to perform around the continent.
[5] Bláhová was the first person to appear in the opening episode of A Country Practice, as the pregnant Sandra Myers, whose baby is delivered by main character Terence Elliott (Shane Porteous).
[9] Bláhová wrote, directed and starred in a pantomime called The Devil and Katya, which was performed at the Playbox Theatre in 1982.
[5] After leaving the serial that same year, Bláhová starred in Louis Nowra's television film Displaced Persons, which tells the story of European refugees arriving in Australia in 1945.
[10] Bláhová won the Best Performance by an Actress in a Principal Role in a One-off Drama accolade at the 1984 Penguin Awards for her work on the film.
"[7] In 1986, she appeared in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's play The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant for the Sydney Theatre Company.
[14] She also appeared in the 1988 television film The Tourist (also known as Sands of the Bedouin),[15] followed by a starring role in the futuristic rock epic Sons of Steel alongside Robert Hartley, Jeff Duff and Mark Hembrow.