Anežka Rusevová was born in 1986 in Prague, Czechoslovakia and is Czech film, television, and theatre actress based in Prague and Berlin.

Anežka studied acting at the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts (DAMU) in Prague and at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin.

Theatre She began her career in theatre projects between Prague and Berlin. In years 2012-2014 collaborated with the Gostner Hoftheater Nuremberg. where the projects Gegen die Wand, Love net and Scherbenpark were created. Her monodrama Scherbenpark was invited to the 100 Grad Berlin Theatre Festival.

From 2016 to 2020, she was an ensemble member at the City Theatre Kladno, where she created many leading roles as f.e. “Beatrice” in Shakespeare ‘ s “Much Ado About Nothing” or “Štěpka” in Czech drama Petrolejové lampy. Since 2021, she has been performing regularly at Prague’s Studio DVA Theatre in leading role “Eva” in comedy “Tři grácie z umakartu” a.o. In 2024, she made her debut at the legendary Činoherní klub with “Significant Other”. Theatre remains the fundamental part of her artistic identity and she continuously shifts between traditional theatre and the independent scene.

Film and TV After several episodic roles in Czech television series, she gained wider recognition through the TV shows “Atentát”, Vinaři 2”, “Ohnivý kuře” and above all the now-legendary series “Ulice”, where she appeared as “Vendula” for nearly ten years. In 2021, she worked with director Tomáš Vorel on the film Cesta domů and also appeared in Petr Slavík’s award-winning feature Tancuj, Matyldo!

Her language skills have led her to German and international film productions giving her the opportunity to appear in projects such as “Walpurgisnacht, Das Boot, Haunted” or “Last Light”. In 2023, she portrayed Mrs. Král in an American film directed by Finn Taylor “Avenue of the Giants”. In 2025, she worked on the german-austrian-czech miniseries Sternstunde der Mörder not only as an actress, but also and primarily as a language coach. In that same year she was cast in the supporting role “Margit Neumann” in the German historical drama “Block 10, directed by Marcus O. Rosenmüller, which is set to be released in 2026.

Anežka is also a highly skilled dancer, fluent in Czech, German, English, and French.

Lives in Prague and her second home is Berlin.

We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

Film and TV

Block 10

2026 film Germany | CCC Filmkunst directed by Marcus O. Rosenmüller | Margit Neumann

Příspěvek na bydlení | Housing Benefit

2025 short FAMU CZ directed by Lukáš Valíšek | Květa

Avenue of the Giants ‍ ‍

2024 film USA directed by Finn Taylor | Mrs. Krall

Ulice

2016 - 2024 TV series CZ | TV NOVA directed by various | Vendula Pelcová

Tancuj Matyldo!

2023 film CZ directed by Petr Slavík | Nurse

Das Boot 4

2023 TV series GER | Bavaria Fiction, directed by Dennis Gansel | Colleague

Eliška a Damián

2023 TV series CZ | FTV Prima | directed by L. Buchar, R. Grzybek, J. Polišenský | Princess Frederika

Malá velká liga

2023 TV series CZ | FTV Prima directed by Jakub Machala | Šárka

Last Light

2022 TV series USA | Peacock | directed by Dennie Gordon | Nurse

Případy 1. oddělení

2022 TV series CZ, Czech television | directed by Michal Blaško | Bartender

Bonn - Alte Freunde, neue Feinde

2022 TV series GER | ARD | directed by Claudia Garde | Frau am Schalter

Cesta domů

2021 film CZ | directed by Tomáš Vorel | Jarmila

Haunted III

2021 TV series USA | Netflix directed by Jan Pavlacký | Bradley’s mother

Zločiny Velké Prahy

2021 TV series CZ | Czech television | directed by Jaroslav Soukup | Brennerová

The Laugh Club

2020 short CZ | FAMO directed by Jindřich Vosecký | Nurse

Walupurgisnacht - Die Mädchen und der Tod

2019 TV film GER | ZDF directed by Hans Steinbichler | Petra Hahn

Vzteklina

2018 TV series CZ | Czech television directed by Tomáš Bařina | Romana Švejdová

Život a doba soudce A.K. - Sestřička

2017 TV series CZ | Czech television directed by Bohdan Sláma | Polesná

Allmen - Der rosa Diamant

2016 TV film GER | ARD directed by Thomas Berger | Greta

Atentát

2016 TV series CZ | TV Nova directed by Petr Nikolaev, Jiří Chlumský | Veronika

Vinaři 2

2016 TV series CZ | FTV Prima directed by Petr Nikolaev, Martin Kopp | Sumečková

Ohnivý kuře

2016 TV series CZ | FTV Prima directed by Jiří Chlumský | Sabina Kubíková

Kriminálka Anděl

2012 TV series CZ | TV Nova | directed by Ivan Pokorný | Simona

Doktor pro zvláštní případy

2011 TV film CZ | Czech television directed by Ivan Pokorný | Rosenthalerová

A woman with brown hair and blue eyes looking over her shoulder outdoors, wearing a black jacket, with a background of rocks and debris.

Theatre

Nejbližší | Significant Other

2024 Činoherní klub directed by Tereza Říhová | Vanessa

Rokenrol | Rock ‘n ‘Roll

2024 Studio DvaTheatre directed by Miroslav Hanuš | Angel

Vše o ženách | All about woman

2024 Studio DvaTheatre directed by Jana Janěková | main roles

Bez roucha | Nothing On

2023 Studio Dva Theatre directed by Ondřej Sokol | Poppy

After Life

2022 Theatre Na Jezerce directed by Jan Hřebejk | Cath, Daphné

Dánská dívka | The Danish Girl

2022 Theatre Na Fidlovačce directed by Jakub Čermák | Anna

Zlý jelen

2022 Depresivní děti touží po penězích directed by Jakub Čermák | Růženka

The Play that goes wrong

2019 Theatre Bez zábradlí directed by Karel Heřmánek | Annie

Petrolejové lampy ‍ ‍

2018City Theatre Kladno directed by Petr Svojtka | Štěpka Kiliánová

Much Ado About Nothing

2017 City Theatre Kladno directed by Zdeněk Bartoš | Beatrice

Romance pro křídlovku ‍ ‍

2017City Theatre Kladno directed by Miroslav Hanuš | Tonka

Donaha | The Full Monty‍ ‍

2016City Theatre Kladno directed by Ondřej Brousek | Pam

The Naked Truth

2016 Stageart.cz‍ ‍directed by Petr Halberstadt | Bev

1913

2015 Tygr v tísni directed by Kristián Kubák, Máša Nováková | Cat

Scherbenpark

2013 Gostner Hoftheater Nuremberg directed byTilmann Seidel | Sascha Festivals 100 Grad Berlin, Unithea Festival Frankfurt Oder, lichtblicke Nürnberg, Luaga und Losna Bludenz

Gegen die Wand

2012 Gostner Hoftheater Nuremberg directed by Nina Hellmuth | Kerstin

love.net

2012 Gostner Hoftheater Nuremberg directed by Nina Hellmuth | Kerstin

Hotel Hollywood

2011Ballhaus Ost Berlin directed by Agathe Chion | Juliette

Na větrné hůrce | Wuthering Heights

2011 Theatre Na prádle directed by Pavel Ondruch | Cathy

Markéta Lazarova

2010 Theatre Disk directed by Pavel Ondruch | Mother Kozlíková

Kazimír a Karolína

2009Theatre Disk directed by Mikoláš Tyc | Erna

Central Park West

2009Theatre Disk directed by Mikoláš Tyc | Carol

Racek | The Seagull

2009Theatre Disk directed by Tereza Karpianus | Polina

Death Valley Junction

2009 bat Studiotheater Berlin | HfS Ernst Busch directed by Agathe Chion | Vallery

Die Orestie | bat Studiotheater Berlin

2009 bat Studiotheater Berlin | HfS Ernst Busch directed by Estera Stenzel | Klytaimnestra

Fräulein Julie | bat Studiotheater Berlin

2009 bat Studiotheater Berlin | HfS Ernst Busch directed by Angelika Waller | Kristin

Fleischer’s Frau

2009 bat Studiotheater Berlin | HfS Ernst Busch directed by Reiner Heise | Frau

Immersive, site specific and special projects

L’Interieurs

2020 Festival Mange ta grenouille | Theatre Nod directed by Linda Dušková | solo

Happy End Hotel Chateau Switzerland‍ ‍

2020 Depresivní děti touží po penězích directed by Jakub Čermák

Oresteia

2015 Tygr v tísni | Antická Štvanice directed by Ivo Kristián Kubák, Máša Nováková | Erynia

Kouzelná flétna | The Magic Flute

2015 Estate Theatre directed byVladimír Morávek | assistant director 

Golem

2014 Tygr v tísni | Vila Štvanice directed by Ivo Kristián Kubák, Máša Nováková

Soudný den

2014 Tygr v tísni | Nákladové nádraží Žižkov direceted by Ivo Kristián Kubák, Máša Nováková

1914

2014 Estate Theatre directed byRobert Wilson 

L’Olimpiade

2013 Estate Theatre directed by Ursel Herrmann | assistant director

Třicátá Marinina láska

2011 Nová scéna National Theatre Prague directed by Viktorie Čermáková | Irulka

Káťa Kabanová

2009 National Theatre directed byRobert Wilson 

Osud | The Fate

2007 National Theatre directed byRobert Wilson 

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