Monika Hilmerová

Monika Hilmerová , born October 7, 1974, in Bratislava, is a Slovak actress. She is a winner of the 2001 Silver Dolphin award at the annual Festroia International Film Festival in Setúbal, Portugal for Best Actress for her performance in Der Lebensborn - Pramen života.

Hilmerová is multilingual and has acted in Czech, Slovak, English and German. Among others, she co-starred in the Golden Globe-nominated Uprising (2001) by Jon Avnet, Silvio Soldini's movie Brucio nel vento (2002) (e.g. Nastro d'Argento award, BM IFF award and/or Flaiano FF award) and the U.S. Emmy Award-winning TV-miniseries Frankenstein (2004) by Kevin Connor. In March 2010, the actress was named a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.

Biography She studied andragogy at the Faculty of Arts, Comenius University, while also studying acting at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. She began acting on stage at 16 years of age at the Naive Theatre Radošina, and later joined the Slovak National Theatre in 2003. She is married to Jaroslav Bekr, a dancer and choreographer, with whom she has two children.

Filmography

Feature films

Television