Czech actress Zuzana Fišarková dies at 87: Prague theatre and film

Czech stage, film and television actress Zuzana Fišarková has died at the age of 87. She passed away on 10 November in a care centre in Prague 7, the Jiří Menzel Foundation announced on Instagram on Wednesday.

The foundation said it was informed of the sad news by Lenka Štanclová, who also wrote about her friend’s death on her Facebook page.

From a family of artists

Zuzana Fišarková was born in Prague on 11 February 1939 into a well-known artistic family. Her father was the academic painter Alois Fišárek, and her younger brother, also named Alois Fišárek, is a well-known film editor.

She began her career at the Rokoko Theatre, then performed in theatres in Plzeň, Liberec, Příbram and Hradec Králové. Later she returned to Prague and became an actress at the E. F. Burian Theatre, while also appearing in Laterna Magika.

Theatre, film and television

In the 1970s Fišarková was a member of the drama company of the State Theatre in Ostrava, now the Moravian-Silesian National Theatre. There she played many striking roles in the classical and contemporary repertoire, including in the productions “Cyrano de Bergerac” and “Thirteen Scents”. In 1980 she returned to Prague, joining the company of the E. F. Burian Theatre, and appeared as a guest in Laterna Magika and later at the Na zábradlí theatre.

She made her screen debut in the late 1950s and over her career played dozens of roles, above all mature women, mothers and character parts. Her films include “105% Alibi” (1959), “Romeo, Juliet and Darkness” (1959), “Where the Rivers Have the Sun” (1961) and the horror drama “Morgiana” (1972).

Television viewers know her from the series “The Stone Order” (1975), “Bakaláři”, “Adventures of Criminalistics” (1989) and “Četnické humoresky” (2001).

Around Prague, based on reporting by novinky.cz