Ludmila Roubíková played a nasty old lady, but in reality she was an angel

Actress Ludmila Roubíková became most famous for her role as the eternally dissatisfied vacationer Dernáčková in the comedy Homolka a tobolka. It must be added that almost every one of her film roles was negative. In front of the camera, she played rude, obnoxious women, while in private she was a very sensitive being who would give herself up for others.

Ludmila Roubíková was married only once, and that very briefly. Her husband Karel worked in a chemical plant in Litvínov and led an amateur theater troupe in his spare time. When they divorced a few months after the wedding, she was left alone forever. Although she longed for children, she was not given any. The theater became her life.

“Actually, there wasn’t even a foot around Lída. She was married for a short time, had no children, and when she wanted to adopt one, they wouldn’t let her because she was alone. We were friends and visited each other. She was very fond of my son. She also brought him gifts, for example from the holidays she went on with Sovák and Stella Zázvorková. She was terribly nice, actually completely different from most of their roles,” she recalled of Roubíková actress Jaroslava Obermaierová for Listy the city of Most.

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After her death, her neighbors robbed her

Ludmila enjoyed a very good reputation in the acting industry. Everyone liked her, she got along well with everyone. She had a good heart. She regularly sent money to charity, went to donate blood and helped the needy. “She had such a sad ending. She died, and the neighbors robbed her. When the notary and I came to her apartment, a fur coat or some gold was missing. She bequeathed me a small table with a chair or an onion service, not that I wanted it, but it also disappeared. We wanted to sue, but at the time, just after the revolution, it somehow went to waste,” added Jaroslava Obermaierová. Roubíková died suddenly on August 11, 1991 at the age of 72. The cause was a heart attack.

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She had a panic fear of cars

She got into acting by accident. Although she had no experience with him, after the end of the Second World War she learned that the theater in Most was holding an audition for new adepts. She applied and was accepted. This is how she started her rich career.

After a year spent in the city of Most, she transferred to the Central Bohemian Theater in Mladá Boleslav, where she spent two seasons. This was followed by the Municipal Regional Theater in Žižkov, Libeň, Benešov, the touring theater of the Central Theater of the Czechoslovak Army in Prague and the East Bohemian Theater in Pardubice. She only found permanent employment at the EF Buriana Theater in Prague, where she worked from 1960 until 1988, when she retired. She occasionally guested there until her death.

“She was a great people-pleaser. Extremely accommodating. When someone was not feeling well or had problems, she always tried to help. For others, she would cut herself. She sympathized with them,” Miriam Kantorková, her colleague from EF Buriana Theater, revealed about her to Blesk daily.

And one interesting thing at the end. Although Roubíková was a very modest woman, she had one condition before every filming. She had to be driven only by one selected driver from Barrandov, whom she trusted. She didn’t sit in the car with anyone else. She herself never owned a driver’s license. However, she witnessed a tragic car accident and was afraid of traveling for the rest of her life because of it.