Under the communists we played theatre for miners, we were rated with red dots
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Ivana Wojtylova was born on August 16, 1962 in Třinec. Her mother worked in a kindergarten. Her father came from Poland and was related to Karol Wojtyla, Pope John Paul II. Ivana Wojtylová grew up in the normalized Moravian-Silesian region. As a child, she began attending a folk art school. After graduating from primary school she was accepted to the Janáček Conservatory in Ostrava. After graduating from the conservatory she joined the Czech-Polish theatre in Český Těšín. She spent many seasons in the Těšín theatre and performed countless roles in plays. Later she became the artistic director of the theatre. She played in Těšín until 2002, after which she moved to Prague, where she has been one of the main acting faces of the Theatre pod Palmovkou since 2013. She has been nominated four times for the Thalia Award (for outstanding stage performances in the field of theatre art) and once for the Alfréd Radok Award (for artistic performances in the Czech theatre). She has also worked as an acting teacher at the Higher Vocational School of Acting in Prague and currently teaches at the music and drama department of the Prague Conservatory of Acting. Among her best known series roles is Libuška in Vyprávěj. In 2024 she lived in Prague.
