Monika Hilmerová

Monika Hilmerová (Slovak pronunciation: [ˈmɔnika ˈɦilmerɔʋaː]; born October 7, 1974, in ČSSR) is a Slovak actress. She is a winner of the Silver Dolphin award received in 2001 at the annual Festroia International Film Festival in Setúbal, Portugal as the Best Actress for her performance in Der Lebensborn - Pramen života (English: Spring of Life, 2000).

The actress appears in multi-language productions, including the Czech, Slovak, English and/or German. Among others, she co-starred in the Golden Globe-nominated Uprising (2001) by Jon Avnet, Silvio Soldini's movie Brucio nel vento (2002) (e.g. Nastro d'Argento award, BM IFF award and/or Flaiano FF award) and the U.S. Emmy Award-winning TV-miniseries Frankenstein (2004) by Kevin Connor. In March 2010, the actress was named a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. Hilmerová was born in the Slovak capital of former Czechoslovakia. She studied andragogy at the Faculty of Arts, Comenius University, while also acting at the Academy of Performing Arts, both in Bratislava. At age sixteen, she played on the stage of the Naive Theatre Radošina. Later on, she joined the scene of the Slovak National Theatre in 2003. The actress is married to dancer/choreographer with whom she has a daughter.