Kryštof Hádek

Kryštof Hádek (born 10 March 1982 in Prague) is a Czech actor.

A talented young actor, Hádek was surrounded by art since his childhood, when, with his two brothers (Ondřej, born 1974, physician, and Matěj, born 1975, actor), he attended music classes at the People's School of Art. But he began to take it seriously at age of eleven, when his mother, journalist and film director Jana Hádková, persuade him to join the Disman children's radio company. Soon after, he began to study acting at the Prague Conservatory, from which he was expelled in the fourth year for a high amount of absences, which originated when Hádek began actively pursue acting while still studying. In 2003-2004 he studied a year and a half at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

Hádek appeared before the camera several times as a child, but his biggest turning point was the movie Dark Blue World (by Jan Svěrák, 2001), in which he showed his acting talent as Sergeant Karel Vojtíšek. For his rendering of the young airman, Hádek was nominated in 2001 for the Czech Lion (the highest film award in the Czech Republic) for the Best Actor in a Supporting Role.

Hádek also appeared in several TV movies (e.g. The Life of Teenager, 2000, Black Tears, 2002) and series (e.g. Ghosts Among Us, 2000). Other theatrical films include 2002's Trip (by Alice Nellis) and, in 2006, Experts (directed by Karel Coma), in which he played the leading role of a young man named Oskar.

Another huge success came with the movie 3 Seasons in Hell (2009), in which he played a young, bohemian, extravagant Czechoslovak poet and for which he received the Czech Lion award for the leading role.^[1]

Hádek also appeared in several seasons of RTÉ's Irish restaurant-based drama Raw playing the hugely popular homosexual character Pavel from Season 1 - Season 4 with his character dying in the Season Finale.^[2]

Currently, Kryštof plays in Prague on stages of theatres Rococo, Švandovo Theatre in Smíchov (in the play The Graduate).

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