Anna Geislerová, also known as Aňa Geislerová (born 17 April 1976),^{[citation needed]} is a Czech actress. She is best known for her role of Eliška in the Academy Award-nominated movie Želary (2003) and as Anna in Návrat idiota (1999).^[1]

Born in Prague in 1976, Geislerová's rise to fame began at the age of 14 when she landed the leading role in Filip Renč's Requiem pro panenku (1991). Her numerous acting credits include Jan Svěrák's Jízda in 1994 as well as the film adaptation of Michal Viewegh's acclaimed novel Výchova dívek v Čechách (1997).^[2]

Geislerová has been nominated four times for a Czech Lion (Czech Academy Award) winning twice; first for Best Actress in 1999 for her performance in Saša Gedeon's The Idiot Returns, and again in 2003 for Ondřej Trojan's Želary, which was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

In 2004, she was named one as European films' Shooting Stars by European Film Promotion.^[3]

Geislerová is part of the Shooting Stars jury 2010, which selected 10 European up-and-coming actors from the group of nominees for receiving the Shooting Star Award 2010 in February at the Berlin International Film Festival.^[4]

Geislerová and her husband Zdeněk Janáček have a daughter Stella, and sons Bruno and Max. She has two sisters, Lenka [cz] and Ester; and her aunt Zuzana is also an actress.

Notes

• A ^ The award shared with co-star Tatiana Vilhelmová for her role of Olga in the same movie by Saša Gedeon.
• B ^ The award shared with Annette Bening for her role of Julia Lambert in Being Julia (2004) directed by István Szabó.