# Karel Dobrý

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

* Elektro, má lásko (1991, TV Movie) – Orestes
* La patience de Maigret (1993, TV Series) – Serveur Tropical
* The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Attack of the Hawkmen (1995, TV Movie) – Göring
* Sacred Cargo (1995) – Barishvili
* Jak si zasloužit princeznu (1995) – The Strongest
* UŽ (1995) – Butch
* Mission: Impossible (1996) – Matthias
* Let's Make an Opera (1996) – Burglar
* La niña de tus ojos (1998, Short) – Leo
* Plunkett & Macleane (1999) – Lewd Young Man
* Spring of Life - Der Lebensborn (2000) – Odillo
* Jabloňová panna (2000, TV Movie) – Prince
* Frank Herbert's Dune (2000, TV Mini-Series) – Liet-Kynes
* Kytice (2000) – King (segment "Zlatý kolovrat")
* A Knight's Tale (2001) – Flanders King of Arms
* Cabriolet (2001)
* Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001, TV Mini-Series) – Commandment
* The Mists of Avalon (2001, TV Mini-Series) – Rhiannon
* Ratten - sie werden dich kriegen (2001, TV Movie) – Reporter
* Szach (2001) – Jakub
* Černí andělé, episode "Červená karta" (2002, TV Series) – Panenka
* Doctor Zhivago (2002, TV Mini-Series) – Mayakovsky
* Četnické humoresky, episode "Dědic" (2002, TV Series) – Josef Kalousek
* Nezvěstný (2003, TV Movie) – Hušner
* Krysař (2003) – Devil / Destiny
* Tajemný svícen (2003, TV Movie) – Devil
* Frank Herbert's Children of Dune (2003, TV Mini-Series) – Korba
* Trosečníci (2003) – Sailor (segment "Kráska a netvor")
* NaPolA (2004) – SS-Arzt
* Der neunte Tag (2004) – Reporter Bertram
* Krev zmizelého (2005)– Brand
* Hui Bůh (2006) – Ritter Ottokar
* Maharal - tajemstvi talismanu (2007) – Receptionist
* Skeletoni (2007, Short) – Pokálený pán
* Flammen & Citronen (2008) – Seibold
* Báthory (2008) – Royal Guard Commander
* The Counterpart (2008, Short) – Italian Captain
* Ocas ještěrky (2009) – Čihák
* Jménem krále (2009) – Adalbert of Jestřebí
* Strážce duší (2009, TV Series) – Richard
* Janosik. Prawdziwa historia (2009) – Plavčík
* We Shoot with Love (2009) – Bad Guy (segment "Pulse Beat")
* Joséphine, ange gardien (2010, TV Series) – Lieutenant
* Utomlennye solntsem 2 (2010) – Nemetskiy letchik
* Klub osamělých srdcí (2010, TV Movie) – Jagol
* Vyprávěj (2010-2012, TV Series) – Matěj Stránský
* 4teens (2011, TV series) – Láďa Kocman, lieutenant
* Faust (2011) – Soldier
* Znamení koně (2011, TV Series) – Karel Dejmek
* Borgia (2011-2014, TV Series) – Giovanni Colonna
* Missing (2012, TV Series) – Coffee Man
* L'olimpiade nascosta (2012, TV Movie) – Pavel Kubík
* In the Shadow (2012) – Muz z rozhlasu
* Tigre v meste (2012) – Kužnikov
* Bullet for Heydrich (The Czech Century) (2013, TV Series) – General lev prchala
* České století, episode "Den po Mnichovu" (2013, TV Series) – Lev Prchala, general
* Cirkus Bukowsky (2013-2014, TV Series) – Hartman, lawyer
* Child 44 (2015) – Photographer
* Lída Baarová (2016) – Gerhard Lamprecht, film director
* Strasidla (2016) – Ignác
* Zahradnictví: Rodinný prítel (2017) – Karel
* The Adventurers (2017) – Yelyuk (The Buyer)
* Zahradnictví: Dezertér (2017) – Karel
* Milada (2017) – NKVD Agent Lichacev
* Zahradnictví: Nápadník (2017) – Karel
* Certoviny (2017) – Lucifer
* The Catcher Was a Spy (2018) – Cold-Eyed German
* Hastrman (2018) – Baron Johann Salmon de Caus
* May the Lord Be with Us (2018) – Jindrich Matyás Thurn
* A War Within (2018) – Doctor
* The Glass Room (2019) – Láník
* Carnival Row (2023) – Pact Ambassador Anrep (6 episodes)

## 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)