Klára Issová (born 26 April 1979), sometimes known as Klára Issa, is a Czech-Syrian film, stage and television actress. In 1997, she won the Czech Lion Award for Best Supporting Actress in Nejasná zpráva o konci světa. She is the cousin of actress Martha Issová.
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Early life
Born in Prague in 1979, she is the daughter of a Czech mother and Syrian director Michel Issa. In 1985, at the age of six, she started taking drama lessons. In 1993, she studied at the Prague Conservatory, graduating in 1997. She continued to act in the school theatre for another two years while studying pedagogy.
Career
Issova has appeared in many films, TV serials and plays. Her notable film appearances are in Indian Summer (1995), The Mists of Avalon (2001), Frank Herbert's Children of Dune (2003), and Surviving Life (2010). She also played a short role in the movie The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008). In 2000, for the movie Angel Exit, she had her head shaved bald onscreen. She was nominated for Czech Lion Awards for best actress in 2000 for the same movie. Her noteworthy TV appearances are in No Problem (1997), Joan of Arc (1999), Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001), and Operace Silver A (2007). Her stage credits include in Shots in Broadway and Private Eye.
Filmography
Zrada (TV series)
Resistance (2020) .... Judith
Tichý společník (2020) .... Lenka
Případ mrtvého nebožtíka (2020)
Specialisté (2019) (TV)
Happy Birthday, My Love (short) (2019) .... Veronika
Pražské orgie (2019) .... Eva Kalinová
Zoufalé ženy dělají zoufalé věci (2018) .... Olga
Interlude in Prague (2017) .... Fraulein Ribber
Všechno nebo nic (2017) .... Vanda
Genius (2017) (TV) .... Marie Curie
Angel of the Lord 2 (2016) .... Virgin Mary
The Truth Commissioner (2016) .... Krystal
Legends (2015) (TV) .... Ilyana (season 2)
Killing Jesus (2015) .... Mary Magdalene
The Last Knights (2014) .... Lt. Cortez’s Wife
Zejtra napořád (2014) .... Jana
Nosferatu in Love (Short) (2014) .... Luna
Škoda lásky 2014 .... Hrdina
Crossing Lines (2013) (TV) .... Shari
Nicky's Family (2011)
Theatre
Divadlo Pod Palmovkou
The Handmaids .... Claire (Jeann Genet)
Shots on Broadway .... Ellen
Amadeus .... Constance (Peter Shaffer)
Ubohý vrah .... Anna (Pavel Kohout)
View from the Bridge .... Catherine
Private Eye .... Belinda
Kean .... Anna Dambi (Jean-Paul Sartre)
Closer .... ??? (Patrick Marber)
Dragon's Lair .... ??? (Viliam Klimacek)
Divadlo v Řeznické
Private Eye .... Belinda
Palace Theatre
Líbánky .... Sibylla Chase (Noël Coward)
