Zuzana Fišárková

Zuzana Fišárková was born in Prague on 11 February 1939. Her father was the painter Alois Fišárek, and her younger brother Alois Fišárek became a film editor.

Fišárková began her acting career at the Rokoko theatre in Prague, at first as an external member of the company, and then worked in regional theatres in Plzeň, Liberec, Příbram and Hradec Králové.

In 1974 Karel Vochoč, then head of drama, engaged her for the drama company of the State Theatre in Ostrava, now the Moravian Silesian National Theatre. An important part of her Ostrava years was her work with the director Jan Kačer. In 1978 she played Titania in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Kristýna in Fly, White Swans after Boris Vasilyev, and she also worked with Kačer on Cyrano de Bergerac, which opened the first season of the chamber stage, The Brawler and Thirteen Scents. Her other Ostrava roles included Lavinia in Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra (1976), Klásková in Alois Jirásek's The Lantern and Gasparina in Goldoni's Il campiello (1979). She shared the stage with leading members of the company such as Zora Rozsypalová, Stanislav Šárský, Jiří Čapka and Alexandr Postler.

She also worked with the Ostrava studio of Czechoslovak Television, and in 1975 the director Alois Müller cast her as Vojtěška Poštulková in the mining serial Kamenný řád. In 1980 she became a member of the E. F. Burian Theatre in Prague, performing at the same time with Laterna Magika, and she later appeared at the Theatre on the Balustrade.

Her film work included 105% alibi (1959) and two films by Václav Krška, Osení and Kde řeky mají slunce (1961), as well as Morgiana (1972), Ustláno na čekankách (1985), Vánice, Povídka malostranská, Císařovy nové šaty and Jak básníci přicházejí o iluze. On television she played episode roles in Bakaláři, Malý pitaval z velkého města, Dobrodružství kriminalistiky (1989), Hospoda (1996), Četnické humoresky (2001) and Strážce duší.

Fišárková came from a family of artists: her father was a painter and her brother a film editor. In her later years she was cared for by a close friend and received support from the Jiří Menzel Foundation, a fund that helps elderly and ill artists. Little else about her private life has been made public.

Fišárková died on Tuesday 10 November 2026 at the Pečovatelské centrum Praha 7, a care centre in Prague, aged 87. Her death was announced on Instagram by the Jiří Menzel Foundation, after the friend who had cared for her wrote to thank the fund for its support, and it was reported by ČTK, Novinky.cz, Aktuálně.cz and TN.cz on 11 and 12 November. The Moravian Silesian National Theatre published a tribute on 12 November. The cause of death has not been made public.

Fišárková is remembered as an actress of wide expressive range who was equally convincing in comedy and in dramatic and character parts. The Moravian Silesian National Theatre said she had left a distinct mark on the history of Czech theatre, and her roles in films and in television series such as Kamenný řád, Bakaláři and Četnické humoresky kept her familiar to Czech viewers for decades.