Soňa Ticháčková

Creator Context

Summary

Czech casting director and founder of one of the country’s earliest private casting agencies, active since the early 1990s. After working at Barrandov Studios and studying production at FAMU, she built a large Prague-based database representing professional and amateur actors, models, children, extras, and “real people.” Her extensive credits span Czech and international films, television, and advertising, including Kolya, Casino Royale, Hostel, Jan Palach, Lída Baarová, České století, Bohéma, and Sanitka 2. In interviews she describes casting as an empathetic, practical collaboration with directors, centered on interpreting scripts and finding performers suited to each role. Her public profile is strongly professional and industry-focused, with no identifiable record of political activism, DEI campaigning, culture-war statements, or an explicitly identity-driven creative agenda.