Background
Vávrová was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia and played her first main film role in Ať žijí duchové!.
Vávrová was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia and played her first main film role in Ať žijí duchové!.
Parallel to her acting, she attended the Prague Conservatory from 1981 to 1985.
English: Long Live the Ghosts!) in 1976, having played a minor role in Jak se točí Rozmarýny. In 1979 she played a minor role in the television mini-series Arabela. In this mini-series, Joseph Vilsmaier was one of the cinematographers.
In addition to acting, she also directed films, the last one being to complete the Artur Brauner production The Last Train, (German: Der letzte Zug) after Joseph Vilsmaier, who had been directing, was involved in an accident.
Vávrová was awarded a Bundesverdienstkreuz. The three daughters of Vávrová and Vilsmaier, Janina Vilsmaier, Theresa Vilsmaier and Josefina Vilsmaier, are also active as actresses.
Vávrová"s older sister, Hana Heřmánková, is a television presenter in the Czechoslovakian Republic. Dana Vávrová died of cervical cancer in Munich, Germany on 5 February 2009.
She was 41 years old.