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Karel Roden (born 18 May 1962) is a Czech actor, popularly known for his roles in Hellboy and The Bourne Supremacy, and his voice work in Grand Theft Auto IV.

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Karel Roden
Roden at the 43rd KVIFF in July 2008
Born	(1962-05-18) 18 May 1962 (age 60) České Budějovice, Czechoslovakia
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1982–present
Partner(s)	Ivana Chýlková (1985-1994)

Life and career

Roden followed his father and grandfather into acting. Roden first graduated from the Comprehensive Art Secondary School for Ceramics before being admitted to the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.

Roden's feature film career began almost simultaneous with his theatre work in 1984 as Honza, a medical student in the 2nd part of a trilogy entitled "How the poets are losing their illusions" (Jak básníci přicházejí o iluze), a lighthearted, comic look at life through the lives of young university students. Roden's Honza also appeared in the final installation of the trilogy, "How poets are enjoying their lives" (Jak básníkům chutná život).

Other comic turns include Roden's Captain Tuma in Who's That Soldier?, a humoristic look at life as a soldier in the socialist Czech army, the character Dragan in the action-thriller Dead Fish with Gary Oldman and Terence Stamp. In the comedy crime-thriller Shut Up and Shoot Me, Roden plays the hen-pecked husband hired to assassinate a grieving widow.[1]

During the 1990s, he spent some time in London, which improved his English and gave him necessary exposure and access to the international scene. Hence, since being outside of Czechoslovakia he has become known mostly for his character actor roles which began in 2001 when Roden secured his first major role in the American psychological thriller, 15 Minutes, where he played the criminal Emil Slovak partnered with Oleg Taktarov opposite NYPD cop Flemming played by Robert De Niro. This was followed by a similar role, as the lawyer Carter Kounen, in the service of a vampire clan, in the movie Blade II in 2002.^{[citation needed]}

This was followed by what became a series of type-cast roles including the action movie Bulletproof Monk, where he plays the Nazi megalomaniac Strucker. This was no doubt due to his heavy accent and distinct features, which bring him close to the stereo-typed Hollywood villain, although his voice was dubbed over by another actor in Blade II. This greatly understates, however, the plethora of characters he has portrayed throughout his career, particularly in Czechoslovakia.^{[citation needed]}

His movie roles to date include 15 Minutes (2001), Blade II (2002), Bulletproof Monk (2003), The Bourne Supremacy (2004), as Grigori Rasputin in Hellboy (2004), Running Scared (2006), Largo Winch (2008), RocknRolla (2008), and Orphan (2009). He also played the Russian movie critic Emil Dachevsky in the film Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007). He played Noble Thurzo in Bathory (2008), co-production movie filmed by Slovak director Juraj Jakubisko, A Lonely Place to Die (2011) and a role as the Czech mobster Karel Benes in the TV series McMafia (2019).

For his main character in Guard No. 47, Karel Roden received the Czech Lion Award for Best Actor in Leading Role.[2] 8 years later, he received the same award for the portrayal of Jan Masaryk in A Prominent Patient. He also received Alfréd Radok Award in 1998 for performing Bruno in Le Cocu Magnifique by Fernand Crommelynck. Other notable role was Don Juan in Grabbe's Don Juan and Faust (Divadlo v Dlouhé). He also appeared in two plays with his brother Marian. He was also a member of the prestigious Prague National Theatre. At the moment he can be found at Theatre Studio DVA in several performances.[3]

Roden has also voiced Mikhail Faustin and Wade "The Fix" Johnson in the video game Grand Theft Auto IV.

Filmography

Film

Year	Film	Country	Role
1987	Who's That Soldier?	Czechoslovakia	Captain Tůma
1990	Masseba	Czechoslovakia	Tall Youth
1997	Pták Ohnivák	Czech Republic	Skeleton
2000	Wild Flowers	Czech Republic	Dead Man - Soldier
2001	15 Minutes	United States, Germany	Emil Slovák
2002	Blade II	United States	Karel Kounen
2003	Bulletproof Monk	United States	Strucker
2004	The Bourne Supremacy	United States	Yuri Gretkov
2004	Hellboy	United States	Grigori Rasputin
2005	Dead Fish	United States	Dragan
2005	Shut Up and Shoot Me	Czech Republic	Pavel Zeman
2006	Running Scared	United States, Germany	Anzor Yugorsky
2006	The Abandoned	Bulgaria, Spain, United Kingdom	Nikolai
2007	Mr. Bean's Holiday	France, United Kingdom, Germany, United States	Emil Dachevsky
2008	Bathory	Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary, United Kingdom	György Thurzó
2008	Guard No. 47	Czech Republic	Frantisek Dousa
2008	Largo Winch	France	Michail Korsky
2008	RocknRolla	United Kingdom	Uri Omovich
2009	Orphan	United States, Canada, Germany, France	Dr. Värava
2010	Habermann	Czech Republic, Germany, Austria	Karel Březina
2011	Lidice	Czech Republic	František Šíma
2011	A Lonely Place to Die	United Kingdom	Darko
2011	Alois Nebel	Czech Republic	The Mute
2013	Frankenstein's Army	United States, Czech Republic, Netherlands	Dr. Viktor Frankenstein
2015	Sword of Vengeance	United Kingdom	Durant
2016	Murder in Polná	Czech Republic	Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
2015	Photographer	Czech Republic	Jan Saudek
2016	A Prominent Patient	Czech Republic	Jan Masaryk
2016	We Are Never Alone	Czech Republic	Father
2017	Little Crusader	Czech Republic	Bořek
2020	The Racer	Ireland, Luxembourg, Belgium	Viking
2022	Medieval	Czech Republic	Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia

Television

Year	Title	Country	Role
2003	Spooks	United Kingdom	Miroslav Gradic
2011	Terapie	Czech Republic	Dr. Marek Pošta
2012	Missing	United States	Viktor Azimoff
2013	The Wrong Mans	United Kingdom	Marat Malankovic
2018	McMafia	United Kingdom	Karel Benes

Video Game

Year	Title	Role
2008	Grand Theft Auto IV	Mikhail Faustin / Wade "The Fixer" Johnson

References

External links

• Biography, including list of roles (in Czech)
• Karel Roden at IMDb
• Karel Roden – Juraj Thurzo

На других языках

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- [en] Karel Roden

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[ru] Роден, Карел

Ка́рел Ро́ден (чеш. Karel Roden; 18 мая 1962, Ческе-Будеёвице, Чехословакия) — чешский актёр театра и кино, с 2001 года — голливудский киноактёр. Обладатель престижной чешской кинонаграды «Чешский лев» в номинации «Лучшая мужская роль» (2008, 2017).

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