Daniel Junas, also known as Dano Junas, (born 16 January 1962) is a Slovak actor, moderator, singer-songwriter and one-time Slovak Gramy Award winner.
Junas was born in Bratislava, Slovakia. His mother, Helen, was an opera singer, and his stepfather, Jan, was a singer and theater director.
He emigrated to Canada before the Velvet Revolution, later returning to Slovakia, where he campaigned for political party Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (HZDS) ahead of the 1999 Slovak presidential election. Junas was involved in a serious traffic incident in Bratislava in 1997, failing to yield at a stop sign and hitting a truck. He sustained a fractured skull and spent a month in hospital. He had a second, less serious experience in the same city in 2008, when he was hit on the passenger side by another vehicle, although did not sustain any injuries.
He married Denisa Kráþová at a launch event of one of his albums in April 2005, when he released a greatest hits CD, titled SnÃÂvaà ¥ celý à ¾ivot. He has two daughters, Sandra and Daniela.
Junas began acting and singing as a teenager. Shortly afterwards, he decided to pursue a career in acting when he was cast in a 1984 television show entitled Triangel. During the 1990s, he ventured into the music industry, and has since made 8 albums, one winning a European Grammy. Junas has also dabbled in modeling, landing campaigns for Ford, Honda and Kenvelo. He was one of the presenters of the 2006 AndÃÂl Awards, held at the ÃÂEZ Aréna in Ostrava in 2007.
Also, Junas has been in musical theatre, performing in Grease.