Zdeněk Rohlíček is a Czech actor known especially for his stage work. He is a son of Zdenek Rohlicek and Czech actress Eva Hruskova. He has two younger brothers - Pavel and Vojtech.

Biography

Zdeněk Rohlíček gained his first dramatic experience as a child by performing puppet shows, televised fairy tales, and during choral singing while in music school. He graduated from 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 :...

 in 2002. Apart from theatre, he also performs on radio

Radio

Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...

 and television

Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

. He plays the piano

Piano

The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...

, the trumpet

Trumpet

The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...

 and the drums. He is interested in photography

Photography

Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...

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Theater

After graduating from the conservatory, Zdeněk Rohlíček worked as an actor

Actor

An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

 for a short time in The Metro Theater in Prague, and in The Black Theater of Frantisek Kratochvil. Since 2004 he is an established star of The Josef Kajetan Tyl Theater in Pilsen

Pilsen

Plzeň, or Pilsen is a city in western Bohemia in the Czech Republic. It is the capital of the Plzeň Region and the fourth most populous city in the Czech Republic. It is located about 90 km west of Prague at the confluence of four rivers—the Radbuza, the Mže, the Úhlava, and the Úslava—which...

. He also appears as a guest in The Alfa Theater, and he participated repeatedly on an annual summer theatrical festivals in Pilsen and in Nebilovy.

DIK (The Theater of the Prague Conservatory

• Toffolo - The Chioggia Scuffles by Carlo Goldoni (2000)
• Mistingue - The Coaldust Affaire by Eugène Labiche (2000)
• Uli - Dobre placena prochazka by Jiri Suchy and Jiri Slitr (2001)
• Kalisto - Zavradeni svate Celestyny by Milan Calabek (2001)
• Jake - A Lie of the Mind by Sam Shephard (2001)

The Black Theater in Prague

• Anatomie polibku by Frantisek Kratochvil
• Quo vadis by Frantisek Kratochvil
• Malovani na tmu by Frantisek Kratochvil (2001)
• Ecce Homo by Frantisek Kratochvil (2003)

The Eva Hruskova and Jan Preucil Theater in Prague

• Legenda o hvezde

The Lavka Club in Prague

• Le Carrosse du Saint Sacrement by Henri Büsser (2002)

The Metro Theater in Prague

• Horace, Agnès' lover and Oronte's son - The School for Wives by Molière (2002)
• Vilik - Tanec mezi vejci by Gustav Skala (2003)
• Cenek - Nevidim to cerne by Gustav Skala (2003)

The Josef Kajetan Tyl Theater in Pilsen

• Edgar - King Lear by William Shakespeare (2004)
• Joey - The Lieutenant of Inishmore by Martin McDonagh (2005)
• Piero Pucci - La Maschera e il volto by Luigi Chiarelli (2005)
• Bill, a London taxi driver - Funny Money! by Ray Cooney (2005)
• Waiter, 2nd Traveller, Musician - I Served the King of England by Ivo Krobot, based on the novel of Bohumil Hrabal (2005)
• Jensen - The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen (2005)
• Filip - Akvabely by David Drabek (2006)
• Chris Smith - Killer Joe by Tracy Letts (2006)
• Duke of Alençon - Queen Margot by Klara Spickova, based on the novel La Reine Margot by Alexandre Dumas, père
  Alexandre Dumas, père
  Alexandre Dumas, , born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie was a French writer, best known for his historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world...
  
   (2006)
• Howard - Moon over Buffalo by Ken Ludwig (2006)
• Brissaile - Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand (2006)
• Milos - Celebrity s.r.o by Antonin Prochazka (2006)
• Louis - A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller (2007)
• Yvan - Art by Yasmina Reza (2007)
• Constable - Inner Voices by Eduardo de Filippo (2007)
• Tristan - The Dog in the Manger by Lope de Vega (2008)
• Karel Kudlicka - Nasi furianti by Ladislav Stroupeznicky (2008)
• Officer Welch - Rumors by Neil Simon (2008)
• Tranio - The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare (2008)
• Jimmy - Like Totally Weird by William Mastrosimone (2008)
• Albin, Vlasta’s husband - Leaving
  Leaving (play)
  Leaving is a 2007 tragicomedic play by Václav Havel. Although Havel has had an extensive career as a playwright, Leaving is his first play in over twenty years. The play premiered at Archa Theatre in Prague on May 22, 2008. The play is composed of five acts and requires eleven men, six women, and...
  
  by Vaclav Havel (2008)
• Quico - La dama del alba by Alejandro Casona (2009)
• Benvolio - Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (2009)
• Blazej - Valka ve sborovne aneb Habada a Jordan by Vaclav Stech (2009)
• Eman - Ve statnim zajmu by Antonin Prochazka (2009)
• Michal - Lantern by Alois Jirasek (2009)
• Bece - Portugál by Zoltán Egressy (2010)
• John- The Lion in Winter by James Goldman (2010)

The Theatrical Summer under the Pilsen Sky

• Sganarelle - Dom Juan/The Feast with the Statue by Molière (2008)
• Petr Ivanovich Bobchinsky - The Government Inspector by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (2009)

The Theatrical Summer of Nebilovy

• Yvan - Act by Yasmina Reza (2009)
• Filip - Akvabely by David Drabek (2009)

The Alfa Theater

• Yvan - 'Art' by Yasmina Reza (2009) - a renewed premiere
• Filip - Akvabely by David Drabek (2009) - a renewed premiere
• Havlena - Sirup by Miroslav Krobot (2010)

Film and television

Zdeněk Rohlíček performed in several television productions and fairy tales directed by Vlasta Janeckova and Moris Issa during his childhood. Later he also played alongside Vlasta Chramostova

Vlasta Chramostová

Vlasta Chramostová is a Czech film actress. She has appeared in 35 films since 1950. She starred in the 1950 film The Trap which was entered into the 1951 Cannes Film Festival.-Selected filmography:* The Trap...

 in Pavel Kohout

Pavel Kohout

Pavel 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...

’s adaptation of PF 77, where he played Peter, a student who signed Charter 77

Charter 77

Charter 77 was an informal civic initiative in communist Czechoslovakia from 1976 to 1992, named after the document Charter 77 from January 1977. Founding members and architects were Václav Havel, Jan Patočka, Zdeněk Mlynář, Jiří Hájek, and Pavel Kohout. Spreading the text of the document was...

.

• prince - O moudre Sorfarine (1995)
• Peter - PF 77 (2003)
• Sigmund Freud (20) - The Question of God: S. Freud & C.S.Lewis (2004)
• son - To nevymyslis (ep. Babicka inkognito) (2005)
• Milos - Celebrity s.r.o (Theater) (2007)
• Howard - Moon over Buffalo (Theater) (2007)

External links

• The Internet Movie Database
• The Josef Kajetan Tyl Theater
• The Theatrical Summer under the Pilsen Sky
• The Alfa Theater