Dagmar Havlová Veškrnová (born 22 March 1953 in Brno) is a Czech actress with more than fifty feature films and hundreds of television roles to her name. She trained at the Brno Conservatory and the Janáček Academy, then built her stage career at the Divadlo na Vinohradech. In 1997 she married President Václav Havel and served as First Lady of the Czech Republic; together they co-founded the Dagmar and Václav Havel Foundation VIZE 97. After a break from acting she returned to the stage in 2005 and has remained one of the most prominent figures in Czech theatre and film.
The comedy Bardotky starring Dagmar Havlová Veškrnová, Eva Holubová and Pavlína Pořízková entered Czech cinemas on July 23, 2026.
The actress revealed that she completed all filming of Bardotky with a broken rib and worked up to fourteen hours a day.
Dagmar Havlová Veškrnová attended the state awards ceremony in the Vladislav Hall of Prague Castle on October 28, 2025.
The Chamber of Deputies proposed to President Petr Pavel to award Dagmar Havlová Veškrnová a state decoration.
Václav Havel's only feature film - a darkly comic portrait of a former chancellor losing power and his place in the world. A sharp, ironic meditation on political decline set entirely in a villa garden.
Documentary portrait of Václav Havel across both his presidential terms, from the founding of the Czech Republic through its EU accession.
An experimental essay by director Karel Vachek exploring 1990s Czech reality, where he becomes both filmmaker and protagonist, directing conversations with figures from various fields in unconventional settings.
