Edita Brychta

Edita Brychta (born 1961) is an English actress. Her birth name was Edita Brychtová.[1]

Edita Brychta
Born
Edita Brychtová

(1961-09-06) 6 September 1961
Prague, Czechoslovakia
OccupationScreen and voice actress
Years active1983–present

Early life

Brychta was born in Prague but grew up in London, having fled with her family from the 1968 Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia. Her parents, Jan and Lida Brychta, are artists, and her brother Alex Brychta MBE is an illustrator.[2]

Edita began acting as a young child in the Czech film Kinoautomat, the world’s first interactive movie, which was presented at Expo 67 in Montreal. At the age of 16, she joined London’s National Theatre Youth Workshop and decided to pursue an acting career.[3]

Career

She trained at LAMDA and was signed by Ken McReddie. In the UK, Brychta went on to play Juliet in Romeo & Juliet, Ophelia in Hamlet, Desdemona in Othello, and Marguerite in the world premiere of Vaclav Havel’s Largo Desolato, directed by Tom Stoppard.  She played Sybil Burlington in the award-winning West End production of Daisy Pulls It Off, produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Brychta starred in TV series such as Maelstrom, Gentleman and Players, Lovejoy, and Taggart, as well as the award-winning The Escape (Border in the UK) and the BAFTA-nominated The Britoil Affair.

Brychta was cast in the role of Princess Diana in NBC’s Behind The Palace Doors and moved to Los Angeles. She went on to be cast in roles alongside Julia Roberts in Conspiracy Theory, Jim Carrey in Man On The Moon, James Garner in The Rockford Files and Angela Lansbury in Murder She Wrote. She also acted alongside Stellan Skarsgård and Lena Olin in the Swedish film Friends.

She worked with directors Ronald Neame, Milos Forman, Richard Donner, and in Mark Rydell’s Crime Of The Century for HBO with Isabella Rossellini and Stephen Rea.

In the Czech Republic, Brychta played in her native language in two films, including the lead role of Anna in Jan Sverak’s Akumulator 1. She also starred in the French TV series Cinq Filles à Paris.

Brychta has done voice-over for animated films such as Ice Age: Continental Drift, Cosmos, and The Bunbury Tails, and features including The Bourne Identity, Pirates Of The Caribbean and Man of Steel, as the voice of the mother ship.

Brychta has voiced various video game characters including  Ming Xiao in Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines and Natasha in Red Alert 3.  She has featured in radio plays for the BBC, including the critically acclaimed Me, Cheeta: My Life in Hollywood with John Malkovich.

Brychta has voiced audio books including Jane Goodall’s Seeds of Hope[4] and was nominated for an Audie for the trilogy, This Man.[5] She performed a live narration for Leonard Bernstein’s The Kaddish at Royce Hall in Los Angeles.

She featured in Daniel Deronda, A Room With a View, Watch on the Rhine, and the Tony-award-winning Oslo for LA Theater Works.[6]

Personal life

Brychta is married to producer David Ladd and has one daughter, Lauren Cassidy, by a previous marriage.

She has completed four open water swims from Alcatraz Island to San Francisco, the length of the Golden Gate Bridge three times, and the 10K distance from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Bay Bridge twice, winning numerous medals.[7][8]

Filmography

See also

References
  1. "Edita Brychta". IMDb. Retrieved 2020-01-12.
  2. "Alex Brychta", Wikipedia, 2019-12-22, retrieved 2020-01-12
  3. "edita brychta | from voice to screen". Retrieved 2020-01-12.
  4. Seeds of Hope.
  5. This Man.
  6. "edita brychta | from voice to screen". Retrieved 2020-01-12.
  7. "Water World Swim: Golden Gate Bridge swim results" (PDF).
  8. "Water World Swim: Bridge to Bridge 10K results" (PDF).
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