Jana Altmannová was born on October 17, 1944 in Prague. She first studied scenography at a high school and then graduated from the Department of Puppet Theater at DAMU in 1968. She worked for five years in Essen, West Germany, where she was engaged at the Hohensteiner Puppenspieler Theater and taught at a higher social pedagogical school.
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After returning to Prague, she was a member of the Spejbl and Hurvínek Theater and then of the Central Puppet Theater. Since 1982 she has been teaching at the DAMU Department of Puppetry and engaged in dubbing.
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Since the 1970s, she has been given the role of mothers, neighbors and clerks in the film, for example in the films Vrchní, prchni (1980), What is at home, it counts, gentlemen…, 1980), Girl with a shell (1980) smarter, old man! (1982), I Am Not Me (1985), Martha and I (1990), Order (1994), Angel’s Eyes (1994) or Kolya (1996).
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From left: Jana Altmannová, Pavel Kikinčuk, Jindřiška Kikinčuková, Jana Synková, Zdeněk Troška, Lukáš Langmajer at the christening of the DVD Babovřesky
Photo: Profimedia.cz
She has acted in many television fairy tales, productions and series, for example in the titles I in Death Alone (2003), Iguo Igua (2003), The Second Breath (1988), About Animals and People (1993), There Were Five of Us (1994), Silver Wig (2001), The Place Above (2004), Family Bonds (2004 to 2006) or The Street (2005). In recent years, she has appeared in three parts of the film Babovřesky by director Zdeněk Troška.
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