What is Zdeněk Svěrák?
{{Infobox person | image =Zdenek Sverak.jpg | imagesize = | caption = Zdeněk Svěrák | name = Zdeněk Svěrák | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1936|3|28|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Prague]], [[Czechoslovakia]] | death_date = | death_place = | othername = | occupation = Actor | yearsactive = 1968 – present }} '''Zdeněk Svěrák''' (born 28th March 1936 in [[Prague]]) is best known as a Czech [[actor]] and [[writer]].<ref name=TrueAM>{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/zdenek-sver%C3%A1k-mn0002143162/biography|title=Zdenek Sverák Biography |author=Chris True |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=January 21, 2017}}</ref> He is also a noted [[playwright]] and [[songwriter]].<ref name=dbaze>{{cite web |url=http://www.databazeknih.cz/zivotopis/zdenek-sverak-229 |title=Zdeněk Svěrák |publisher=Databazeknih.cz |access-date=January 21, 2017}}</ref> He is the holder of 3 [[Magnesia Litera]] awards and 3 Czech Leo awards. He studied at the [[Pedagogic University]] and was a [[teacher]]. After 4 years as a teacher, he started to work in Czechoslovak radio. There he met musician [[Jaroslav Uhlíř]] and since then he [[collaboration|collaborated]] with him. Zdeněk Svěrák and [[Ladislav Smoljak]] are creators of czech most famous entertaining genious person Jára Cimrman. They have made 13 theatre plays about him and his life. As actor he appears in czech classic movies as: Na samotě u lesa, Marečku, podejte mi pero!, Trhák, Tři veteráni, Obecná škola or Vratné Láhve. He [[wikt:found|found]]ed the Theater of Jara Cimrman in 1966.<ref name=TrueAM/> Zdeněk's son, [[Jan Svěrák]] (*1965), is czech film director and one of 4 Czechoslovakian/Czech men who won [[Academy Award|Oscar]]. In 1997, the Father and son team won an [[Academy Award|Oscar]] for their movie ''[[Kolja]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://london.czechcentres.cz/programme/travel-events/obecna-skola-k-narozeninam-zdenku-sverakovi/ |title=Celebrating Zdeněk Svěrák´s 80th Birthday – The Elementary School |date=March 28, 2016 |publisher=The Czech Centre |