Anna Geislerová is a Czech actress. The recipient of five Czech Lion awards, three for Best Leading Actress and a further two for Best Supporting Actress, Geislerová is best known for her role of Elià ¡ka in the Academy Award-nominated movie à ½elary (2003) and as Anna in The Idiot Returns (1999).
Born in Prague in 1976, Geislerová's rise to fame began at the age of 14 when she landed the leading role in Filip RenÃÂ's Requiem pro panenku (1991). Her numerous acting credits include Jan SvÃÂrák's JÃÂzda in 1994 as well as the film adaptation of Michal Viewegh's acclaimed novel Výchova dÃÂvek v ÃÂechách (1997).
Geislerová has won multiple Czech Lion awards. She won Best Supporting Actress in 2000 for her performance in Saà ¡a Gedeon's The Idiot Returns, before winning Best Leading Actress in 2004 for Ondà Âej Trojan's à ½elary, which was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In 2006 Geislerová again won a Czech Lion, this time for Best Supporting Actress in the film Something Like Happiness. The following year she won a Best Leading Actress Czech Lion for her performance in Kráska v nesnázÃÂch. She received her fifth Czech Lion award overall, after winning Best Leading Actress at the 2012 ceremony, for Innocence directed by Jan Hà Âebejk.
In 2004, she was named one as European films' Shooting Stars by European Film Promotion.
Geislerová is part of the Shooting Stars jury 2010, which selected 10 European up-and-coming actors from the group of nominees for receiving the Shooting Star Award 2010 in February at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Geislerová has three children from her former marriage to ZdenÃÂk JanáÃÂek, a daughter Stella, and sons Bruno and Max. She has two sisters, and Ester; and her aunt Zuzana is also an actress.