Mgr. Michal Hudák was born on 27 June 1969 in Prešov and is of Rusyn nationality. He graduated from primary school and high school in Ukrainian language. In his childhood he worked in radio and amateur theatre. In his teenage years he also performed in the Ukrainian National Theatre in Presov (today's Alexander Duchnovich Theatre).

He decided to study acting at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. In 1987 he successfully passed the entrance interviews, but eventually went to study acting at the Kiev Institute of Theatre Arts. Where his brother Sergei also studied. After four years he returned as a theatre and film actor. He got an engagement at the Alexander Duchnovich Theatre in Prešov. He also worked in Flash radio in Prešov.

He first appeared on television in the Slovak Television's competition show Správny klucz and later in the show Varím varíš varíme. Currently he prepares trailers for JOJ TV, works in dubbing and reads commentaries for documentaries. On JOJ he hosted the shows Girl for a Million and the reality show VyVolení. In RTVS he hosted the shows Phenomenon and Phenomenon Junior. He also performs with the country and bluegrass band Žobráci, where he plays mandolin. He is divorced, has sons Simon and Hugo and also a daughter Eva.

He starred in the TV series The Professionals and Panelák. Currently, he often appears in the show Incognito alongside another friend and fellow Russian, Marian Čekovský.

Source: https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michal_Hudák
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Juraj Kukura was born on 15 March 1947 in Prešov. After graduating from the construction industry school in Bratislava, he studied acting at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. He started out in the Korze Theatre, later in the New Stage, and from 1976 to 1984 he worked in the Drama Theatre of the Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava until he left for Germany. At the beginning he performed at the Kammerspiele in Munich, later in Basel, Bonn and since 1985 at the Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, where he still lives today. 

In 2002 he became the director of the Bratislava Aréna Theatre. He is married and has one son. He is one of the most popular theatre and television actors in Germany. He has starred in several episodes of the series Crime Scene, in the series Via Mala, Hotel Raj Helicops, Kobra 11. 

Awards:

- For his performance as Martin in The Goat or Who is Sylvia, he was awarded the 2004 Slabs Award for Best Actor in a Play. 

- For his leading role in the Prague Drama Club's production of The Brothers Karamazov, he won the prestigious Divadelních noviny award for the best acting performance of the 2014/2015 season, which is awarded regardless of genre. 

- For his performance as Fyodor Karamazov he was nominated for the annual Thalia Award of the Czech Actors' Association and for the Theatre Critics' Award 2015, awarded by the renowned Czech magazine Svět a divadlo (World and Theatre). 

- In 2017, he received the Medal of Merit from Czech President Miloš Zeman. 

- In 2025, President Peter Pellegrini awarded him the Pribina Cross of the First Class - for exceptional merits for the cultural development of the Slovak Republic.

Source: https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juraj_Kukura
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She was from Okružna, where she was born on August 1, 1951. She graduated from the grammar school in Prešov and then studied acting at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. For one season she worked at the Theatre for Children and Youth in Trnava. Then she decided to go her own way and devote herself to monodrama. Since 1975 she has been freelancing and writing her own scripts for her travelling one-actor theatre. She has appeared in the monodramas Neveľo nas idze, neveľo nam potrzeb, Sojka, Czas kikiríkania, To len tak naoko, Žniva. She has also shown her considerable acting talent in several television films and productions.

She made her literary debut with the short story collection She Grazed Horses on Concrete. Based on one of them, she also wrote the screenplay for the successful film of the same name, in which she played the main character. She also contributed to the screenplays for the films Horses on Concrete and Easter. When writing short prose, she used her knowledge of the environment of the eastern Slovak countryside, as well as the city, and her experience of travelling by train. 

She has published the books So What?, Without Words, So What!, Intercity and Don't Say That! She was authentic in her work thanks to her use of the Sharis dialect, but also her specific sense of humour, while always remaining human, understanding and personal. She lived in Bratislava and regularly returned to Prešov with her performances. 

She passed away on May 30, 2023 after a long battle with cancer.

Source: Regional Library P. O. Hviezdoslav in Prešov; Micro-project.
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Jonáš Záborský was a Slovak novelist, playwright, poet, historian, journalist and priest. He was born in 1812 in a peasant family in the village of Záborie (now Martin district). He studied at grammar schools in Kežmarok and Levoča, graduated in theology at the Evangelical Academy in Prešov and later studied at the University of Halle in Germany. From 1834 to 1839 he was a chaplain in Pozdišovce, in 1840 he became a parish priest in Rankovce. After the fire of his rectory in 1842, he converted to the Catholic Church and worked at the German rectory in Košice.

He disagreed with Ľudovít Štúr and his codification of the written Slovak language and considered his national programme unrealistic. In 1848 he was imprisoned for possession of the Requests of the Slovak Nation, and in 1850 he was appointed professor of Greek at the law faculty in Košice. From 1850 to 1853, he also worked as editor of the government-run Slovak Newspaper in Vienna, from where he had to leave due to conflicts with the censorship. In 1853 he became a parish priest in the eastern Slovak village of Župčany, where he worked until his death, adopted a new form of Slovak and devoted himself mainly to literary activities.

Jonáš Záborský's oeuvre is extensive. It includes classicist poetic compositions (Zehry, The Entry of Christ into Paradise), satirical prose (Faustiáda, The Shofranks, On the Seven Dukes of Hungary, Chruňo and Mandragora, Frndolína), didactic humoresques (Two Days in Chujava, Kulifaj), and autobiographical prose (The Panslavist Parson), historical short stories (Buld, Svätopluk's Betrayal, Mazep's Love), a syllabotonic poetic composition (The Death of Janosik), and many dramas (The Last Days of Great Moravia, The Arpáds, The Resistance of the Danube Slavs, Pansláv, Holub, Batory, Striga, the so-called "The Resistance of the Danube Slavs", the "The Last Days of Great Moravia", the "The Last Days of Great Moravia", the "The Last Days of Great Moravia", the "The Last Days of Great Moravia", the "The Last Days of Great Moravia", the "The Last Days of Great Moravia". Lžedimitrijád, etc.). He wrote an extensive historical work History of the Kingdom of Hungary from the beginning to the times of Sigismund. The main themes of his work are historical facts and autobiographical elements.

Source: csfd.sk
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