He grew up in Zábřeh, Ostrava. As a child, he sang in a children’s radio choir. He graduated from grammar school, completed his first year at the Faculty of Education and then studied drama acting at the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts in Brno with Zoja Mikotová until 1986. He was on an international summer course with Ladislav Fialka. In the years 1986–1991, he played in the Husa Theater on a string. He then worked in a theater in the French city of Blois and toured France with him. From 1993 to 1999, he worked in the Prague Drama Club. In the 1990s, he studied with the choreographer and dancer Min Tanaka in Japan. From 1999 to July 2009, he was engaged in the drama troupe of the National Theater in Prague. Here he was a guest in the operas Toufar, Charokraj and dramas Vec Makropulos, Troilus and Cressida, Garden Party and Auditor. From the 2016/2017 season, he again joined the engagement as a member of the ND Drama.
Since 1985, he has also appeared in films and on television. In 2004, he attended the Oscars in Los Angeles after playing the lead role in the nominated American film The Bridge. For his role in the film Poupata, he received the Czech Lion Award for the best male performance in a leading role in 2012.
He plays saxophone, guitar and ukulele. For example, he played with the band Traband or with Miroslav Kemel’s band, in February 2021 he sang together with Igor Orozović a thanksgiving song Hippokratova armada, dedicated to healthcare workers. In 2022, he released an album of his own songs Ješte je in a jazz-folk arrangement by Marian Friedl, and he also occasionally performs concerts with this work. He works in graphics, plays golf and speaks English, German, Russian, Polish and French.
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