Jiřina Šejbalová was a Czech actress of the stage, television, and film. For many years she taught theatre classes at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts

Janácek Academy of Music and Performing Arts

Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts is a university-level school in Brno in the Czech Republic.The Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts is one of two academies of music and the dramatic arts in the Czech Republic...

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Born in Prague, Šejbalová came from a family of clerks. After studying at the Prague Conservatory

Prague Conservatory

Prague Conservatory, sometimes also Prague Conservatoire, in Czech Pražská konzervatoř, is a Czech secondary school in Prague dedicated to teaching the arts of music and theater acting.- Instruction :...

, she began her career as an opera singer at the National Theatre

National Theatre (Brno)

The National Theatre in Brno is the major theatre house in Brno. It was established in 1884 by model of the National Theatre in Prague.Nowadays it consists of three stages:...

 in Brno

Brno

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 in the mid 1920s. During the 1927-1928 season she abandoned her opera career and began working as a dramatic actress at that house in avant-garde plays

Experimental theatre

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 directed by Jiří Frejka. She became a member of the National Theatre

National Theatre (Prague)

The National Theatre in Prague is known as the Alma Mater of Czech opera, and as the national monument of Czech history and art.The National Theatre belongs to the most important Czech cultural institutions, with a rich artistic tradition which was created and maintained by the most distinguished...

 in Prague

Prague

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 in 1928. She performed as a stage actress at that theatre up until her retirement in 1971.

Šejbalová made her first foray into Czech film as the title character in the 1929 movie Hanka a Jindra. She appeared in over 35 Czech feature film

Feature film

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s over the next five decades, with her last appearance being in the 1978 movie Sólo pro starou dámu. Her two most important films were Morálka paní Dulské (1958) and Zlatá svatba (1972). She also appeared is several Czech television movie

Television movie

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s and television programs from 1961 through 1980. She died in Prague at the age of 75.

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