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Anna Geislerová is a Czech actress. The recipient of five Czech Lion awards, three for Best Leading Actress and a further two for Best Supporting Actress, Geislerová is best known for her role of Eliška in the Academy Award-nominated movie Želary (2003) and as Anna in The Idiot Returns (1999).

Career

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).

Geislerová has won multiple Czech Lion awards. She won Best Supporting Actress in 2000 for her performance in Saša Gedeon's The Idiot Returns, before winning Best Leading Actress in 2004 for Ondřej Trojan's Želary, which was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In 2006 Geislerová again won a Czech Lion, this time for Best Supporting Actress in the film Something Like Happiness. The following year she won a Best Leading Actress Czech Lion for her performance in Kráska v nesnázích. She received her fifth Czech Lion award overall, after winning Best Leading Actress at the 2012 ceremony, for Innocence directed by Jan Hřebejk.

In 2004, she was named one as European films' Shooting Stars by European Film Promotion.

Geislerová is part of the Shooting Stars jury 2010, which selected 10 European up-and-coming actors from the group of nominees for receiving the Shooting Star Award 2010 in February at the Berlin International Film Festival.

Personal life

Geislerová has three children from her former marriage to Zdeněk Janáček, a daughter Stella, and sons Bruno and Max. She has two sisters, Lenka and Ester; and her aunt Zuzana is also an actress.

Recognition

Medal of Merit (2025)

Anna Geislerová at Shooting Stars

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