Zuzana Mauréry

Zuzana Mauréry (born 23 September 1968) is a Slovak television, movie and theatre actress and a musical singer. She lives in Bratislava. Her husband was Ondrej Šoth, a Slovak choreograph and stage manager. She is a four-time candidate for national movie awards and a two-time laureate for The Sun in a Net Awards, for theleadingfemale role. She is also a member of theSlovak movie and television academy.

“The key to success is teamwork and co-operation. A single person or entity does not have the ability to succeed alone. It is always in the combination of circumstances.”(Zuzana Mauréry)

Zuzana comes from a family of musicians. Her father,Pavol Mauréry, was an opera soloist in the Slovak National Theatre for many years, while her mother, Darina Markovičová, was a choir soprano in the former theatreNew Scene / Nová scéna. She was born as their only child, during the period of normalization, shortly after the military intervention of the Warsaw pact in Czechoslovakia.

Thanks to the profession of her parents, she grew up being financially secure. “They frequently went to the West, which meant I my clothes were quite western. I was the first in my school to wear the so-called zipper pants”. While attending a middle school for German speakers, she also had dance and piano lessons. Musicals soon fascinated her by their unusual form, however, the singing itself not so much. “I spent my childhood locked up in my room, while my parents had their practice session – which was basically non-stop. I wanted to become a stewardess and study languages, which is why I started learining English alongside German”. However, her parents persuaded her to start studying informatics at the nearby Juraj Hronec Grammar school in Bratislava, which was mainly focused on mathematical physics.Despite her focus on natural sciences, Mauréry successfully finished her studies in acting on the Academy of Performing Arts (VŠMU). She studied alongside such well-known actors as Roman Pomajbo, Peter Mankovecký, Dagmar Bruckmayerová, Zuzana Vačková and Silvia Vargová.

Filmography

Television series

• Silvánovci / Silvan Family (1996, Slovakia)

• Za mestskými múrmi / Behind the city walls (1998, Slovakia)

•Veselý strach / Comic fear (1998, Slovakia)

• Záchranári / Mountain rescuers (2003, Slovakia / Czech Republic)

• Ordinácia v ružovej záhrade / Doctor's office in the pink garden (2007 − 2012, Slovakia)

• Mesto tieňov / City of shadows (2008, Slovakia)

• Panelák / Prefab (2009 – 2015, Slovakia)

• Ako som prežil / How did I survive (2009, Slovakia)

• Keby bolo keby / Even If (2009, Slovakia)

• Odsúdené / Convicted (2009 – 2010, Slovakia)

• 4teens (2011, Czech Republic)

• Zlomok sekundy / Fraction of a second (2011, Slovakia)

• Klan / The Clan (2013 – 2014, Slovakia)

• Tajné životy / Secret lives (2015 and 2017, Slovakia)

• Dovidenia, stará mama / So long Grandma (2016 – 2017, Slovakia)

• Za sklom / Behind the glass (2016 – 2017, Slovakia)

Theatre plays

Awards and nominations