Karel Dobrý

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Karel Dobrý (born 2 May 1969) is a Czech film, television and stage actor. He is known for playing Liet-Kynes in the Dune 2000 miniseries, and Korba in the 2003 sequel Children of Dune, and as Matthias in Mission: Impossible. He also appeared in the award-winning film The Girl of Your Dreams by Fernando Trueba. Biography He was born 2 May 1969 in Karlovy Vary. He was raised in Prague and spent pa...

Karel Dobrý (born 2 May 1969) is a Czech film, television and stage actor. He is known for playing Liet-Kynes in the Dune 2000 miniseries, and Korba in the 2003 sequel Children of Dune, and as Matthias in Mission: Impossible. He also appeared in the award-winning film The Girl of Your Dreams by Fernando Trueba. Biography He was born 2 May 1969 in Karlovy Vary. He was raised in Prague and spent part of his childhood living in Syria. He speaks Czech, Russian, German, and English. Selected filmography Theatre National Theatre (Prague) Tartuffe Impromptu (2014) – Tartuffe (musical performance) Strakonický dudák (2014) – Vocilka The Deafening Smell of White (2013) – Vincent van Gogh Troilus and Cressida (2012) – Odysseus Divadlo Komedie (Prague) Kabaret Ivan Blatný (2007) – Man (musical performance) Solingen (Rána z milosti) (2004) – Horatio Třetí Řím (2004) – Saška Ukřižovaná (2004) – Doctor The Cannibals (2003) – Klaub, medicine student Divadlo Na zábradlí (Prague) JE SUiS (2001) – Pastor Terasa (2001) – Maurice Výnosné místo (2000) – Žadov Malý Říjen (1999) – Slovák Juraj Slovák Histrionics (1999) – Ferruccio, son Ivanov (1998) – Eugene Lvov, young doctor (Alfréd Radok Awards for Best Play) Táňa, Táňa (1997) – Ivanov Cabaret (1997) – Rudolf Schultz (musical performance) The Seagull (1994) – Boris Trigorin, novelist (Alfréd Radok Awards for Best Play) Naši Naši furianti (1994) – Filip Dubský Pokojíček (1993) – Jiří Kašpar Theatre Company (Prague) The Green Cockatoo (1992) – Baltasar Käthchen of Heilbronn (1992) – Bedřich Veter Cyrano de Bergerac (1991) – Christian & De Valvert Nordic Black Theatre (Oslo, Norway) Mr. Bojangles (1992) – Joe Other stage works Day of the Oprichnik (2013) – Andrej Danilovič (Studio Hrdinů), Alfréd Radok Awards for Best Actor, Cena Divadelních novin for Best Actor, nominated for Thalia Awards for Best Actor The Church (L'Église) (2012) – Bardamu & Céline (Studio Hrdinů), nominated for Alfréd Radok Awards for Best Actor Richard III (2012) – Duke of Buckingham (Summer Shakespeare Festival) Buzní kříž (2012) – Lucrecia (MeetFactory, Prague) Vánoční zázrak (2011) – Radan (Divadlo Broadway in Prague, musical performance) Kudykam (2009) – Kudykam (Prague State Opera, musical performance) Skočná (2009) – Louis-Ferdinand Céline (MeetFactory, Prague) Muži malují (2009) – Hubínek (MeetFactory, Prague) Horníci (Muži tmy) (2008) – (A Studio Rubín, Prague) Jeanne D'Arc (2007) – Judge (Divadlo Miriam, Prague, musical performance) Na Fidela mi nesahej! (2007) – Rene Ernesto Ariza (Experimentální prostor NoD - Klub Roxy, Prague) The Picture of Dorian Gray (2006) – Lord Henry Wotton (Divadlo TaFantastika, Prague, musical performance) In the Penal Colony (2005) – The Condemned Man (Divadlo Archa, Divadlo La Fabrika, Klub Roxy, acting role in opera by Philip Glass) Sud prachu (2003) – Policeman & Mane (Činoherní studio Ústí nad Labem) E.F.B. - Kladivo na divadlo (2004) – (Divadlo Archa, musical performance) King Lear (2002) – Edmund, illegitimate son of Gloucester (Summer Shakespeare Festival) Dalibor (2001) – Zdeněk (National Theatre in Prague, acting role in opera by Bedřich Smetana) Summit Conference (1991) – Soldier (Divadlo Rokoko, Prague) References External links Karel Dobrý unofficial website (in Czech) Karel Dobrý at IMDb Karel Dobrý at the Czechoslovak Film Database (in Czech)