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.
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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.
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)
