Pavel Soukup

The voice of Pavel Soukup is doubtless familiar to everyone in the Czech Republic who has ever got to listen to a Czech Radio broadcast, or watched a dubbed foreign film on television. He has to his credit a long list of radio play characteres; has been the Czech voice of, among others, Robert Redford, Michael Douglas, Gérard Depardieu, Robin Williams, Bruce Willis, Harrison Ford, Sylvester Stallone; and won the TýTý 2003 Award in a tv viewers’ poll picking the most popular protagonists of the small-screen, in the film-dubbing category. A native of Prague, Pavel Soukup studied at Charles University’s Faculty of Journalism, and pursued his studies at Prague’s Academy of Drama, from which he graduated in 1974. His professional career has been marked by engagements with theatre companies at Olomouc, Liberec, and the Prague Municipal Theatres (ABC, Rokoko, and Divadlo Komedie), work at the Musical Theatre in Karlín, Prague, and the current stage of self-employment as a free-lance actor.