Career
Foreign many years she taught theatre classes at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts. Born in Prague, Šejbalová came from a family of clerks. After studying at the Prague Conservatory, she began her career as an opera singer at the National Theatre in Brno in the mid-1920s.
During the 1927-1928 season she abandoned her opera career and began working as a dramatic actress at that house in avant-garde plays directed by Jiří Frejka.
She performed as a stage actress at that theatre up until her retirement in 1971. Šejbalová made her first foray into Czechoslovakian film as the title character in the 1929 movie Hanka a Jindra.
She appeared in over 35 Czechoslovakian feature films over the next five decades, with her last appearance being in the 1978 movie Sólo pro starou dámu. Her two most important films were Morálka paní Dulské (1958) and Zlatá svatba (1972).
She also appeared is several Czechoslovakian television movies and television programs from 1961 through 1980.
She died in Prague at the age of 75.