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Isobel Pravda (born 22 December 1979) is an English actress and the granddaughter of Czech actors George Pravda and Hana Maria Pravda.

Personal Life
Isobel was born in Reading. Her father, Alex Pravda is from Czechoslovakia and until his recent retirement was an International Relations PhD lecturer at St Anthony's College, Oxford. Her mother, Imogen Martin, was a classics and English teacher.

Isobel attended Kendrick Girls' Grammar school in Reading, and was a member of the National Youth Theatre. She went onto graduate from the Royal Central School of Speech of Drama, having been awarded the Peter Wolff bursary.

Isobel currently lives in the UK and has two young children.

Career
Isobel has starred as Camille Monet opposite Richard Armitage in the BBC1 series The Impressionists (2006). She also appeared as Misha in three episodes of Murphy's Law (2006) and as DC Carla Masters in Double Dare for the series Silent Witness (2007). She played Maria Bopkova in two episodes of Dark Matters (2012) and Anya alongside Tom Hollander in two episodes of the BBC2 series Ambasadors (2013). Her film work includes playing Bianca in the RSA's Someone Else(2005) and a cameo in Kenneth Brannagh's Jack Ryan (2013).

Her stage work includes: Magdalena in Fighting the Tide for Hull Truck (2002); Clare in The New End Theatre's Commanding Voices (2002) with Jeremy Child; Lily in Zadie's Shoes at the Finborough Theatre (2003); Portia in Julius Caesar at the Menier Chocolate Factory(2004); Miss Bingley in The Good Company's tour of Pride and Prejudice(2005); Ana in Ana in Love at The Hackney Empire (2006); and Tara in the Death of Cool at the Tristan Bates Theatre (2007).

Whilst living and working in Athens she produced and starred in a bi-lingual production of The Vagina Monologues(2010) for the charity event V-Day, which transferred to the Olympic Badminton Theatre.

She has worked as a voice over artist, most notably for archaeological documentaries, and is currently the face of Unilever's Neutral skincare range for Northern Europe.

Isobel's grandmother, Hana Maria Pravda, was a Czech Jew who survived Auschwitz. A diary which she wrote on the Death March was discovered many years after the war and was exhibited at the Imperial War Museum in London. Isobel was asked to perform a reading of the diary, accompanied by the Solaris String Quartet, for Holocaust Memorial Day at the museum in 2007; this led the Svandova Theatre in Prague to write a play based on the diary, in which Isobel starred as her own grandmother. The play ran in 2013 in Prague, London and Brussels, and is due to transfer in January 2014.