Background
Bouzová was born in Surrey, although she grew up in Manchester with her Czechoslovakian father Ivan Bouza, mother Rita, and younger sister Jessica.
Bouzová was born in Surrey, although she grew up in Manchester with her Czechoslovakian father Ivan Bouza, mother Rita, and younger sister Jessica.
She was educated at the Manchester High School for Girls. She qualified as a barrister, having gained her Bachelor of Laws in English Law and French Law from King"s College London, with time studying at Louisiana Sorbonne in Paris.
Previously, Bouzová had a number of minor television roles including in Doctors, Mile High, The Bill and Murder in Suburbia. Her surname is pronounced boh-zaw-va:. Bouzová later discovered that acting was her main passion.
She joined Casualty in 2004 as Ukrainian staff nurse Ellen Zitek.
Her character was diagnosed with, and underwent treatment for, cancer, but died after being run over by a motorcyclist in an accident while chasing an errant patient. Ellen was pronounced dead by her colleagues in the Emergency Department in the second part of the Christmas 2006 episodes (Series 21, Episode 16).
Since leaving Casualty, Bouzová has been concentrating on theatre, playing the leading lady, Vera, in Bill Kenwright"s And Then There Were None and the leading part of Mollie in the West End Theatre production of The Mousetrap at Street Martin"s Theatre in London until January 2010. Bouzová and her partner were voted off on the fourth show of the series.
Bouzová is a writer, and is in the process of completing her first novel.
She has also contributed to various publications as a freelance journalist, in The Times and The Guardian newspapers. Murder in Suburbia.