Magda Vášáryová

Magda Magdaléna Vášáryová August 26 1948 Banská Štiavnica is a Slovak politician and former actress and diplomat Since 2006 she has been a member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic for SDKÚDS On 12 December 2013 she resigned from the party and until the start of the socalled The third government of Robert Fico 2016 worked in the National Council of the Slovak Republic as a nonattached member of parliament She began her successful acting career as a 15yearold in the film Senzi Mama 1964 From 1966 to 1971 she studied sociology at the Faculty of Arts of Comenius University in Bratislava Since 1970 she has worked as an actress in the Korze Theater the New Stage 1971 1983 and in the Slovak National Theater 1983 1990 She is the author of book memoirs about Banská Štiavnica Short Letters to a Town 1988 In 1988 she was awarded the title of Merited Artist From 1990 to 1993 she served as the CzechSlovak ambassador to Austria During the diplomatic mission she lived with her daughters in Vienna while her husband stayed in Bratislava While they provide wife support for diplomats Vášáryová as a diplomat did not receive compensation for the diplomats nonworking wife Václav Havel and Jiří Dienstbier enforced her compensation payment On May 3 1993 she organized a meeting at home where the Slovak Society for Foreign Policy SFPA began to form From 1993 to 2000 she was its director In 2020 she is the Honorary Chair of the SFPA Board In 1998 she founded Občianske oko In the 1999 elections she ran as an independent candidate for the post of President of Slovakia She won 194635 votes 66 in the election She did not make it to the second round She announced her candidacy in February 1999 in Banská Bystrica She wanted to confirm the changes in 1989 and 1998 She was the first woman in Slovakia to run for president From 2000 to 2005 she served as Slovakias ambassador to Poland Its predecessor was Ondrej Nemčok and his successor was František Ružička Since February 21 2005 she has held the position of State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic in the second government of Mikuláš Dzurinda In the summer of 2005 she joined the SDKÚ On 12 December 2013 together with Lucia Žitňanská and Miroslav Beblavý she resigned from SDKÚDS Since November 15 2013 she has been the president of the Živena association Her goals after the election were I still have three goals within Živena One of them is in particular the modernization of communication the addition of a membership base and I would also like to raise more money in more modern ways for example in the form of grants Her predecessor was Zora Breier In 2016 she did not run for parliament again In addition to Živena she also led the Institute for Cultural Policy He also teaches at the CEVRO INSTITUTE in the Czech Republic In 2016 The Prague Society for International Cooperation awarded her the Hanno R Ellenbogen Prize for Civil Service and the Lifelong Fight against Corruption Sister of the actress Emilie Vášáryová The first husband was the actor Dušan Jamrich The second husband is Milan Lasica He has two daughters