Jana Štěpánková she became famous, among other things, as Pavla from the legendary series Such a normal family. “My role as a calm rational wife who practices yoga and is not distracted by anything was very close to me. Just for the great exaggeration I love,” she said of her heroine. The only man in her life was a TV director Jaroslav Dudek (†68), who just cast her in this role. Some sources state that they met Jana during their studies at DAMU, while others claim that they only met during his work at the SK Neumann Theatre.
But one thing is certain – that they were a well-matched couple not only at home, but also in front of (and behind) the camera. His sudden death in 2000 hit Jana painfully, and her only child, son Jan (61), was a great support for her at the time. At that time, Štěpánková ended up in the theater as well, which was another blow for her that struck straight to the living. “After thirty years, they didn’t renew my contract. I suddenly lost the two loves of my life. If I didn’t have a son, I don’t know how I would have coped.” said the actress about Jan, who, unlike his artistically-based parents, studied mathematics and worked in the IT sphere.
Jana Štěpánková was the sister of two famous actors Petra (75) a Martina (†63). They had the same father, also a well-known actor Zdenek Štěpánek (†71). Her father’s character appeared in the submission Michal Dlouhé (55) in the series Bohemia –and Štěpánková looked on in disbelief at the artistic exaggeration. “It is dishonor to father and mother,” she raged and even considered suing. Of course, not on the actors, but on the script and the director’s assignment.
According to her, things appeared in the series that neither she nor her family could breathe. “When my mom comes in and says she refuses to play A bunch of Karhana grinders at the National Theater and that he is leaving is a big mistake. It wasn’t like that. Mom was fired because she said Victory February was a coup. She flew,” Štěpánková claimed. “The idea of my mother and father having such a dialogue is something absurd to me,” she was angry.
Zlata Adamovská and Petr Štěpánek: How did they get together and how are things at home? FTV Prima
But she was also on the ropes with her brothers, for many years they did not communicate at all. Martin then committed suicide in 2010 with Petr, the star Ordinance in the Rose Garden 2only got closer thanks to Zlate Adamovska (65). Jana played with her at the Theater in Vinohrady and Ungelta. “Paradoxically, she experienced my divorce with me Radek John and other love carambolas,” Adamovská recalls. When Štěpánková found out that Zlata was going to marry Petr, she allegedly only clapped her hands and exclaimed: “Then we will be brothers-in-law? That’s beautiful…”
“I dare to say that I brought them a little closer together with Peter. She didn’t have much of a relationship with him because of his ex-wife (14 years older director Vlasta Janečková, editor’s note)but maybe there were other reasons as well,” admits Adamovská, who, as they say, didn’t like it. “But when she found out he was dating me, she started seeing him a lot more often. So I would say that I kind of cemented the family together,” the actress claimed happily.
Jana Štěpánková
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