Jiřina Švorcová

Her acting career lasted more than forty years, but she largely retired after the 1989 Velvet Revolution and devoted herself to advocacy of the Communist Party.

[1] Švorcová worked in television, theater and film during the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic.

[1] Her best known work came during the 1970s in the Czechoslovak television series, Žena za pultem or A Woman Behind the Counter.

[1] She openly condemned the signatories of Charter 77, who included Pavel Kohout and Václav Havel, as "traitors" to Communism and the country.

[1] She reiterated her disapproval of Charter 77 in a December 2010 interview with a Czech Radio reporter, "I think it’s wrong when someone finds out that they could not cope with the idea they helped to bring about.