Karel Dobrý

Karel Dobrý (born 2 May 1969) is a Czech film, television and stage actor. He is known for playing Liet-Kynes in the Dune 2000 miniseries, and Korba in the 2003 sequel Children of Dune, and as Matthias in Mission: Impossible. He also appeared in the award-winning film The Girl of Your Dreams by Fernando Trueba.

Biography
He was born 2 May 1969 in Karlovy Vary. He was raised in Prague and spent part of his childhood living in Syria. He speaks Czech, Russian, German, and English.

Selected filmography

 * Elektro, má lásko (1991, TV Movie) – Orestes
 * La patience de Maigret (1993, TV Series) – Serveur Tropical
 * The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Attack of the Hawkmen (1995, TV Movie) – Göring
 * Sacred Cargo (1995) – Barishvili
 * Jak si zasloužit princeznu (1995) – The Strongest
 * UŽ (1995) – Butch
 * Mission: Impossible (1996) – Matthias
 * Let's Make an Opera (1996) – Burglar
 * La niña de tus ojos (1998, Short) – Leo
 * Plunkett & Macleane (1999) – Lewd Young Man
 * Spring of Life - Der Lebensborn (2000) – Odillo
 * Jabloňová panna (2000, TV Movie) – Prince
 * Frank Herbert's Dune (2000, TV Mini-Series) – Liet-Kynes
 * Kytice (2000) – King (segment "Zlatý kolovrat")
 * A Knight's Tale (2001) – Flanders King of Arms
 * Cabriolet (2001)
 * Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001, TV Mini-Series) – Commandment
 * The Mists of Avalon (2001, TV Mini-Series) – Rhiannon
 * Ratten - sie werden dich kriegen (2001, TV Movie) – Reporter
 * Szach (2001) – Jakub
 * Černí andělé, episode "Červená karta" (2002, TV Series) – Panenka
 * Doctor Zhivago (2002, TV Mini-Series) – Mayakovsky
 * Četnické humoresky, episode "Dědic" (2002, TV Series) – Josef Kalousek
 * Nezvěstný (2003, TV Movie) – Hušner
 * Krysař (2003) – Devil / Destiny
 * Tajemný svícen (2003, TV Movie) – Devil
 * Frank Herbert's Children of Dune (2003, TV Mini-Series) – Korba
 * Trosečníci (2003) – Sailor (segment "Kráska a netvor")
 * NaPolA (2004) – SS-Arzt
 * Der neunte Tag (2004) – Reporter Bertram
 * Krev zmizelého (2005)– Brand
 * Hui Bůh (2006) – Ritter Ottokar
 * Maharal - tajemstvi talismanu (2007) – Receptionist
 * Skeletoni (2007, Short) – Pokálený pán
 * Flammen & Citronen (2008) – Seibold
 * Báthory (2008) – Royal Guard Commander
 * The Counterpart (2008, Short) – Italian Captain
 * Ocas ještěrky (2009) – Čihák
 * Jménem krále (2009) – Adalbert of Jestřebí
 * Strážce duší (2009, TV Series) – Richard
 * Janosik. Prawdziwa historia (2009) – Plavčík
 * We Shoot with Love (2009) – Bad Guy (segment "Pulse Beat")
 * Joséphine, ange gardien (2010, TV Series) – Lieutenant
 * Utomlennye solntsem 2 (2010) – Nemetskiy letchik
 * Klub osamělých srdcí (2010, TV Movie) – Jagol
 * Vyprávěj (2010-2012, TV Series) – Matěj Stránský
 * 4teens (2011, TV series) – Láďa Kocman, lieutenant
 * Faust (2011) – Soldier
 * Znamení koně (2011, TV Series) – Karel Dejmek
 * Borgia (2011-2014, TV Series) – Giovanni Colonna
 * Missing (2012, TV Series) – Coffee Man
 * L'olimpiade nascosta (2012, TV Movie) – Pavel Kubík
 * In the Shadow (2012) – Muz z rozhlasu
 * Tigre v meste (2012) – Kužnikov
 * Bullet for Heydrich (The Czech Century) (2013, TV Series) – General lev prchala
 * České století, episode "Den po Mnichovu" (2013, TV Series) – Lev Prchala, general
 * Cirkus Bukowsky (2013-2014, TV Series) – Hartman, lawyer
 * Child 44 (2015) – Photographer
 * Lída Baarová (2016) – Gerhard Lamprecht, film director
 * Strasidla (2016) – Ignác
 * Zahradnictví: Rodinný prítel (2017) – Karel
 * The Adventurers (2017) – Yelyuk (The Buyer)
 * Zahradnictví: Dezertér (2017) – Karel
 * Milada (2017) – NKVD Agent Lichacev
 * Zahradnictví: Nápadník (2017) – Karel
 * Certoviny (2017) – Lucifer
 * The Catcher Was a Spy (2018) – Cold-Eyed German
 * Hastrman (2018) – Baron Johann Salmon de Caus
 * May the Lord Be with Us (2018) – Jindrich Matyás Thurn
 * A War Within (2018) – Doctor
 * The Glass Room (2019) – Láník
 * Carnival Row (2023) – Pact Ambassador Anrep (6 episodes)

National Theatre (Prague)

 * Tartuffe Impromptu (2014) – Tartuffe (musical performance)
 * Strakonický dudák (2014) – Vocilka
 * The Deafening Smell of White (2013) – Vincent van Gogh
 * Troilus and Cressida (2012) – Odysseus

Divadlo Komedie (Prague)

 * Kabaret Ivan Blatný (2007) – Man (musical performance)
 * Solingen (Rána z milosti) (2004) – Horatio
 * Třetí Řím (2004) – Saška
 * Ukřižovaná (2004) – Doctor
 * The Cannibals (2003) – Klaub, medicine student

Divadlo Na zábradlí (Prague)

 * JE SUiS (2001) – Pastor
 * Terasa (2001) – Maurice
 * Výnosné místo (2000) – Žadov
 * Malý Říjen (1999) – Slovák Juraj Slovák
 * Histrionics (1999) – Ferruccio, son
 * Ivanov (1998) – Eugene Lvov, young doctor (Alfréd Radok Awards for Best Play)
 * Táňa, Táňa (1997) – Ivanov
 * Cabaret (1997) – Rudolf Schultz (musical performance)
 * The Seagull (1994) – Boris Trigorin, novelist (Alfréd Radok Awards for Best Play)
 * Naši Naši furianti (1994) – Filip Dubský
 * Pokojíček (1993) – Jiří

Kašpar Theatre Company (Prague)

 * The Green Cockatoo (1992) – Baltasar
 * Käthchen of Heilbronn (1992) – Bedřich Veter
 * Cyrano de Bergerac (1991) – Christian & De Valvert

Nordic Black Theatre (Oslo, Norway)

 * Mr. Bojangles (1992) – Joe

Other stage works

 * Day of the Oprichnik (2013) – Andrej Danilovič (Studio Hrdinů), Alfréd Radok Awards for Best Actor, Cena Divadelních novin for Best Actor, nominated for Thalia Awards for Best Actor
 * The Church (L'Église) (2012) – Bardamu & Céline (Studio Hrdinů), nominated for Alfréd Radok Awards for Best Actor
 * Richard III (2012) – Duke of Buckingham (Summer Shakespeare Festival)
 * Buzní kříž (2012) – Lucrecia (MeetFactory, Prague)
 * Vánoční zázrak (2011) – Radan (Divadlo Broadway in Prague, musical performance)
 * Kudykam (2009) – Kudykam (Prague State Opera, musical performance)
 * Skočná (2009) – Louis-Ferdinand Céline (MeetFactory, Prague)
 * Muži malují (2009) – Hubínek (MeetFactory, Prague)
 * Horníci (Muži tmy) (2008) – (A Studio Rubín, Prague)
 * Jeanne D'Arc (2007) – Judge (Divadlo Miriam, Prague, musical performance)
 * Na Fidela mi nesahej! (2007) – Rene Ernesto Ariza (Experimentální prostor NoD - Klub Roxy, Prague)
 * The Picture of Dorian Gray (2006) – Lord Henry Wotton (Divadlo TaFantastika, Prague, musical performance)
 * In the Penal Colony (2005) – The Condemned Man (Divadlo Archa, Divadlo La Fabrika, Klub Roxy, acting role in opera by Philip Glass)
 * Sud prachu (2003) – Policeman & Mane (Činoherní studio Ústí nad Labem)
 * E.F.B. - Kladivo na divadlo (2004) – (Divadlo Archa, musical performance)
 * King Lear (2002) – Edmund, illegitimate son of Gloucester (Summer Shakespeare Festival)
 * Dalibor (2001) – Zdeněk (National Theatre in Prague, acting role in opera by Bedřich Smetana)
 * Summit Conference (1991) – Soldier (Divadlo Rokoko, Prague)