Alice Bendová

Alice Bendová (née Veselá; born 1 November 1973) is a Czech actress and model.

Alice Bendová
Bendová in 2019
Born	Alice Veselá (1973-11-01) 1 November 1973 (age 51) Prague, Czechoslovakia
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1997–present
Partner	Michal Topol
Children	Václav[1] (son, born in 2007) Alice[2] (daughter, born in 2010)

Childhood and education

Bendová grew up in Prague and, from the age of eleven, lived independently with her sister in an apartment. Her mother operated a grocery store located 18 kilometers from the city and visited her daughters only on weekends.^[3] Bendová studied at Vyšší odborná škola uměleckoprůmyslová a Střední uměleckoprůmyslová škola in Prague, where she focused on furniture design.^[4]

Selected filmography

Films

• Báječná léta pod psa (1997)
• John Sinclair (German series, 1998)
• Studená válka (Germany, 1998)
• Love Lies Bleeding (USA, 1999)
• A Knight's Tale (USA, 2001)
• Duše jako kaviár (2004)
• Sametoví vrazi (2005)
• Rána z milosti (2005) (TV)
• Všechno nejlepší! (2006)
• Kajínek (2010)
• Dešťová víla (2010)
• Kandidát (2013)
• Kameňák 4 (2013)
• Vánoční Kameňák (2015)

TV series

• The Immortal (Canada, 1998)
• Rodinná pouta (since 2004)
• Hop nebo trop (2004)
• Bazén (2005)
• Letiště (2006)
• Velmi křehké vztahy (2007–2009)
• Profesionálové (2009)
• Základka (2012)
• Svatby v Benátkách (2014–2015)
• Bezdružice (2015)
• Polda (since 2016)

Personal life

Bendová was born in Prague. She had been married to Václav Benda (a former ice hockey player) for many years before she began dating Michal Topol.^[5] She has a son and a daughter. Before giving birth to her second child, she announced her intention to get a tattoo on her back that would include the names of her children.^[6] It was her third consecutive tattoo; the first is located in a place typically covered by clothing, while the second is a lower back tattoo.^[7]

Controversy

In March 2021, Slovak TV presenter Zuzana Belohorcová informed her instagram profile that she was moving her entire family from Miami to the Spanish town of Marbella. The reason for leaving was the dirty environment of the city, in which she did not want to raise her children. Bendová commented on the post saying, "Yuck! Black hell on Earth! Long live Biden, right? It's sad we won't be looking there for a long time."^[8]

Journalists from CNN Prima News noticed the sharp reaction of Bendová's fans on social media. One of them commented on her text saying: "You are a C-grade racist scumbag."^[9] Another fan asked Bendová under her text: "Racist! You didn't even live there, so what are you judging?"^[9] Bendová denied the accusations of racism and stood by her words, but eventually deleted her original statement.^[10]