Ivan Trojan
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Ivan Trojan is a Czech
actor.
He graduated from the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
in 1988 and Realistické divadlo Zdeňka Nejedlého (RDZN) in Prague-Smíchov
. In 1992 he moved to Divadlo na Vinohradech (DNV). In 1997 he decided to move to a newly established Dejvické divadlo (DD).
He is son of actor Ladislav Trojan and brother of producer and director Ondřej Trojan
. He is married to actress Klára Trojanová-Pollertová with two children - Josef and František.
Czech people
Czechs, or Czech people are a western Slavic people of Central Europe, living predominantly in the Czech Republic. Small populations of Czechs also live in Slovakia, Austria, the United States, the United Kingdom, Chile, Argentina, Canada, Germany, Russia and other countries...
actor.
He graduated from the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
The Academy of Performing Arts in Prague is a university level school of music, dance, drama, film, TV and multi-media studies.- Faculties :*Film and TV School - FAMU*Music Faculty - HAMU*Theatre Faculty - DAMU-Notable alumni:...
in 1988 and Realistické divadlo Zdeňka Nejedlého (RDZN) in Prague-Smíchov
Smíchov
Smíchov is a district of Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, and is part of Prague 5. It is located on the west bank of the Vltava river....
. In 1992 he moved to Divadlo na Vinohradech (DNV). In 1997 he decided to move to a newly established Dejvické divadlo (DD).
He is son of actor Ladislav Trojan and brother of producer and director Ondřej Trojan
Ondrej Trojan
Ondřej Trojan is a Czech film producer, actor and film director. Two of the films he produced were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film : Divided We Fall and Želary , which he also directed...
. He is married to actress Klára Trojanová-Pollertová with two children - Josef and František.
Dejvice Theatre
- Teremin (2005) .... Léon ThereminLéon ThereminLéon Theremin was a Russian and Soviet inventor. He is most famous for his invention of the theremin, one of the first electronic musical instruments. He is also the inventor of interlace, a technique of improving the picture quality of a video signal, widely used in video and television technology...
, nominated for Alfréd Radok AwardAlfréd Radok AwardsThe Alfréd Radok Awards are presented annually by the Endowment for the Alfréd Radok Awards in collaboration with the Aura–Pont agency and the magazine Svět a Divadlo for achievements in Czech theatre. The prize for Best Performance was first awarded in 1992... - A Streetcar Named DesireA Streetcar Named Desire (play)A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1947 play written by American playwright Tennessee Williams for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948. The play opened on Broadway on December 3, 1947, and closed on December 17, 1949, in the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. The Broadway production was...
(2003) .... Stanley - Sic (2003) .... Theo (by Melissa James GibsonMelissa James Gibson-Life:The child of former BC Liberal MLA Gordon Gibson and his journalist wife Valerie, Gibson grew up in North Vancouver. She graduated from Columbia University and from the Yale School of Drama with an M.F.A. in Playwriting. She is working on commissions for the La Jolla Playhouse and The...
) - Three SistersThree Sisters (play)Three Sisters is a play by Russian author and playwright Anton Chekhov, perhaps partially inspired by the situation of the three Brontë sisters, but most probably by the three Zimmermann sisters in Perm...
(2002) .... Aleksander Ignayevitch Vershinin - Tales of Common InsanityTales of Common InsanityTales of Common Insanity is a play by Petr Zelenka which won the Alfréd Radok Award for Best Play. After its opening in Prague, the play received productions in other Czech cities, as well as translations and productions in Slovakia, Kraków, Poland, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Germany,...
(2001) .... Petr - OblomovOblomovOblomov is the best known novel by Russian writer Ivan Goncharov, first published in 1859. Oblomov is also the central character of the novel, often seen as the ultimate incarnation of the superfluous man, a symbolic character in 19th-century Russian literature...
(2000) .... The Title Role - received Thalia AwardThalia AwardsThe Czech Actors´ Association presents an annual Thalia Awards since 1993. The award is named after the muse of comedy Thalia.Awards for:*Play*Opera*Musical*Ballet*) Number of actors´ awards....
, nominated for Alfréd Radok Award - The Brothers KaramazovThe Brothers KaramazovThe Brothers Karamazov is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Dostoyevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a serial in The Russian Messenger and completed in November 1880...
(2000) .... Father Karamazov - Devil - The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and her Heartless GrandmotherThe Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and her Heartless GrandmotherThe Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and her Souless Grandmother is a 1972 novella by Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez.-Plot summary:...
(1999) .... Red Indian - The Government Inspector (1998) .... Anton Antonovitch Skvoznik - Duchanovskij, hetman
- Utišující metoda (1997) .... Professor Maillard (by Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective...
), nominated for Thalia Award
Vinohrady Theatre
- The Brothers Karamazov (1997) .... Ivan
- A Flea in Her EarA Flea in Her EarA Flea in Her Ear is a play by Georges Feydeau written in 1907, at the height of the Belle Époque.-Plot:...
(1996) .... Kamil Champsboisy (by Georges FeydeauGeorges FeydeauGeorges Feydeau was a French playwright of the era known as the Belle Époque. He is remembered for his many lively farces.-Biography:Georges Feydeau was born in Paris, the son of novelist Ernest-Aimé Feydeau and Léocadie Bogaslawa Zalewska. At the age of twenty, Feydeau wrote his first comic... - Jacobowski and the Colonel (1995) .... Head of Policemen (by Franz Werfell)
- Fathers and SonsFathers and SonsFathers and Sons is an 1862 novel by Ivan Turgenev, his best known work. The title of this work in Russian is Отцы и дети , which literally means "Fathers and Children"; the work is often translated to Fathers and Sons in English for reasons of euphony.- Historical context and notes :The fathers...
(1995) .... Eugen Bazarov - Clown (August August August) (1994) .... August jr. (by Pavel KohoutPavel KohoutPavel Kohout is a Czech and Austrian novelist, playwright, and poet. He was a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, a Prague Spring exponent and dissident in 1970s until he was expelled to Austria...
- Le baruffe chiozzotteLe baruffe chiozzotteLe baruffe chiozzotte is a play by Venetian playwright Carlo Goldoni, first performed at the Teatro San Luca in Venice in January 1762. It deals with the comic struggles between two families of fishermen in the lagoon-mouth village of Chioggia brought on by the love affairs of the younger generation...
(1994) .... Commissioner (by Carlo GoldoniCarlo GoldoniCarlo Osvaldo Goldoni was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays. Audiences have admired the plays of Goldoni for their ingenious mix of wit and honesty...
) - Romeo and JulietRomeo and JulietRomeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular archetypal stories of young, teenage lovers.Romeo and Juliet belongs to a...
(1992) .... Romeo - A Midsummer Night's DreamA Midsummer Night's DreamA Midsummer Night's Dream is a play that was written by William Shakespeare. It is believed to have been written between 1590 and 1596. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and the Queen of the Amazons, Hippolyta...
(1990) .... Demetrius, Summer Shakespeare FestivalSummer Shakespeare FestivalThe Summer Shakespeare Festival takes place in the courtyard of Burgrave Palace at Prague Castle. The festival was originally initiated by Václav Havel. The performances are also presented at Špilberk in Brno and at Bratislava Castle in Bratislava... - Merlin oder das wüste Land (1988) .... Parsifal (by Tankred DorstTankred DorstTankred Dorst is a German playwright and storyteller.Tankred Dorst currently lives and works in Munich. His farces, parables, one-act-plays and adaptations are inspired by the theatre of the absurd and the works of Ionesco, Giraudoux and Beckett...
, RDZN)
Antoher Stage Works
- Nesles Tower (1996) .... Night of Orgies (by Pierre Henri Cami), Divadlo Viola
Selected filmography
- 2008 – The KaramazovsKaramazoviThe Karamazovs is a 2008 Czech film directed by Petr Zelenka with a soundtrack by Jan A. P. Kaczmarek. It tells the story of a group of Czech actors who come to Polish steelworks to perform a stage adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov at an alternative drama festival...
(father) - 2007 – Václav (Václav Vingl)
- 2007 – Medvídek (Ivan)
- 2005 – Anděl páně (Petronel)
- 2005 – Wrong Side UpWrong Side UpWrong Side Up is a 2005 Czech comedy-drama film written and directed by Petr Zelenka. It is an adaptation of Zelenka's play Tales of Common Insanity. It is a tale of people showing their internal loneliness by their choices in life.-Plot:...
(Petr Hanek) - 2003 – One Hand Can't Clap (Zdenek), received Czech Lion Award for best actor, also co-writer of the screenplay
- 2003 – ŽelaryŽelaryŽelary is a 2003 Czech/Slovak film directed by Ondřej Trojan, starring Anna Geislerová. The movie received a 2004 Academy Award nomination in the Best Foreign Language Film category. It was produced by Barrandov Studios in Prague.- Plot :...
(Richard) - 2002 – Seducer (Karel)
- 2002 – The Brats (Marek Sir (father)), received Czech Lion Award
- 2000 – Loners (Ondřej), nominated for Czech Lion Award
- 2000 – Četnické humoresky (Bedřich Jarý)
External links
- Ivan Trojan at CFN.cz