Tatiana Dyková

Tatiana Dyková, née Vilhelmová (born 13 July 1978) is a Czech film and stage actress.^[1][2] She has been nominated nine times for the Czech Lion award, winning once for her performance in Bohdan Sláma's Something Like Happiness (2005). She has received recognition as Best Actress internationally, winning awards in Buenos Aires and Sochi, among others.

Tatiana Dyková
Born	Tatiana Vilhelmová (1978-07-13) 13 July 1978 (age 47) Prague, Czechoslovakia
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1990-present
Spouses	Pavel Čechák ​ (m. 2005⁠–⁠2013)​ Vojtěch Dyk ​ (m. 2019)​
Children	3
Awards	Czech Lion Award (2005)

Biography

She is 5 ft 3 in tall. During her childhood Vilhelmová took lessons in ballet for 9 years, and was a member of Kühn's Children Choir [cs] between the ages of 10 and 19.^[3] She left Prague Conservatory at 16 before finishing her studies, to start her acting career.

Vilhelmová made her professional debut in Indian Summer (1995), directed by Saša Gedeon, for which she received her first nomination for the Czech Lion.^[4] In 2000 Vilhemlová and co-star Anna Geislerová were co-winners of the Best Actress award at the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema for their roles in the 1999 film The Idiot Returns.^[5] For the same film, Vilhelmová received an honourable mention at the Cottbus Film Festival.^[6] She followed this up by receiving a special mention for her role in the television film Společnice [wikidata] at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival in 2001.^[7] In 2002 a film she starred in, The Wild Bees, won the main prize at the Sochi International Film Festival. For her role in that film, she also won the Best Actress award.^[8]

Between 2002 and 2014 she was a regular member of the Dejvice Theatre [cs]. She was repeatedly nominated for Czech Lion awards, winning her first one after her seventh nomination in 2006 for her performance as leading actress in the film Something Like Happiness.^[3] She was part of the Czech dubbing cast for 2007 film Ratatouille.^[9]

She won the third season of the Czech reality competition Tvoje tvář má známý hlas, broadcast in 2017.^[3]

Personal life

She married first husband Petr Čechák in July 2005 while in her seventh month of pregnancy.^[10] She has two sons with Čechák: František and Cyril. She married her second husband Vojtěch Dyk on 1 May 2019.^[3][11] With Dyk she has another son, Alois, who was born five years before their marriage.^[12]

Awards

Year	Nominated work	Award	Category	Result
1995	Indian Summer	Czech Lion Award	Best Supporting Actress	Nominated	[4]
1996	Whisper		Best Actress	Nominated	[13]
1998	A Time of Debts		Best Supporting Actress	Nominated	[14]
1999	The Idiot Returns	Cottbus Film Festival Award	Honorable Mention	Won	[6]
		Buenos Aires IFIC Award	Best Actress	Won[A]	[15]
		Czech Lion Award		Nominated	[16]
2000	Společnice [wikidata]	Monte-Carlo TF - Golden Nymph Award	Special Mention	Won	[17]
2001	The Wild Bees	Czech Lion Award	Best Actress	Nominated	[18]
		Sochi IFF Award		Won[B]	[8]
2003	Herself	European Film Promotion at Berlin IFF	Shooting Stars Award	Mentioned	[19]
2004	0049 Divided	ČRo Award	Invisible Actor	Nominated	[20]
	Dirty Soul	Czech Lion Award	Best Actress	Nominated	[21]
2005	Something Like Happiness			Won	[22]
2014	Nowhere in Moravia			Nominated	[23]
2015	Home Care		Best Supporting Actress	Nominated	[24]
Note: Awards are listed in order of the effective years, annual ceremonies are usually held the following.

Notes

• A ^ Award shared with co-star Anna Geislerová for her role of Anna in the same movie by Saša Gedeon.^[15]
• B ^ Award shared with Eszter Nagy-Kálózy for her role of Katalin in Smoldering Cigarette (2001) directed by Péter Bacsó.^[25]