Everyone knows the actress Jana Synková as an extroverted and smiling person. Not everyone suspects that her smile hides a family tragedy. Despite the blows of fate, she became a very successful actress who portrayed a number of unforgettable roles.
He mostly plays women that you can’t easily forget. Her characters are often obnoxious, rude or persistent. For example, Aunt Katerina from the well-known comedy Saturnin will never let go of an opportunity to bombard the world with some wisdom or pranosticism.
The fact that she mainly plays halftones doesn’t bother her. “I’ve basically had them in my repertoire since school. It’s been dragging on with me ever since, but I don’t mind. I don’t take it personally at all,” said Jana Synková.
A sad event in the family was actually to blame for her detour into acting. When Jana Synková came home from school as a child, she witnessed how her mother died of a sudden cardiac arrest. Since her father then raised her alone, her grandmother took care of her most of the time.
Her grandmother talked her into ballet
At that time, little Jana wanted more than anything to become a ballerina. But that was a stumbling block. Her grandmother was a former prima ballerina, so she very intensively discouraged her from this difficult profession.
“She forbade me because she knew from her own experience what hard work it is. She told me to go to the radio, that I wouldn’t sweat there. I was sorry, but what could be done. So I found literature and poems as a substitute and gradually got into acting,” explained the actress in the Jana Krause Show.
She started going to a drama club, where it became clear that she really had talent. On the second attempt, she managed to get into DAMU, but she got pregnant already in the first year.
She studied as a single mother
She decided to keep the child and raise him as a single mother, even though his father wanted to marry her.
She managed to combine parenthood and studies, but later she was expelled because she mocked Fučík’s Poem. After a year, however, the school management took pity on her and allowed her to continue her studies.
After she finished school, she got a place in the well-known theater FX Šalda in Liberec. From there, she moved to today’s Ypsilonka, where she still works today. After this theater moved to Prague, she began to appear in front of the camera more and more often.
She played a number of nasty women
She was a very busy actress, especially in the nineties. She appeared, for example, in the already mentioned Saturnino, the trilogy Once Upon a Time, the film Cottage for Sale or Troška’s trilogy Babovřesky.
In the Ypsilonka theater she also met her husband Jiří Schmidt, who is also the father of her two children.
“We met by chance on a bus when we were traveling from Prague to Liberec. He sat down next to me, kept talking and invited me to join them in the theater for a show. I went there at the time with reluctance, but I completely fell in love with the concept of the theater – and, of course, with him,” Prima revealed to television with a smile.
Sources: Prima women, The Jan Krause Show