Isobel Pravda

Pravda played the female lead, Camille Monet, opposite Richard Armitage in the BBC1 series The Impressionists (2006).[https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2006/03_march/30/impressionists_credits.shtml The Impressionists – Credits] She had the role of Misha in three episodes of Murphy's Law (2006){{Cite web |url=http://www.tv.com/shows/murphys-law/cast/ |title=Murphy's Law – Cast |access-date=14 June 2014 |archive-date=5 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305155944/http://www.tv.com/shows/murphys-law/cast/ |url-status=dead }} and DC Carla Masters in Double Dare for the series Silent Witness (2007).{{Cite web |url=http://www.tv.com/shows/silent-witness/double-dare-part-1-1137974/ |title=Silent Witness – Double Dare, Part 1 |access-date=14 June 2014 |archive-date=6 January 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140106085407/http://www.tv.com/shows/silent-witness/double-dare-part-1-1137974/ |url-status=dead }} She played Maria Bopkova in two episodes of Dark Matters (2012)[http://www.listal.com/tv/dark-matters-twisted-but-true/cast Dark Matters: Twisted but True] and Anya alongside Tom Hollander in two episodes of the BBC2 series Ambassadors (2013).{{Cite web |url=http://www.comedy.co.uk/guide/tv/ambassadors/details/ |title=The Ambassadors – Production Details |access-date=14 June 2014 |archive-date=23 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923222639/http://www.comedy.co.uk/guide/tv/ambassadors/details/ |url-status=dead }}

Pravda's film work includes Bianca in RSA's Someone Else (2005)[https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/658649/someone-else Turner's Classic Movies – Someone Else] and a cameo in Kenneth Brannagh's Jack Ryan (2013).[https://web.archive.org/web/20140813175825/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/453633/Jack-Ryan-Shadow-Recruit/cast New York Times – Jack Ryan] Isobel Pravda was the face of Unilever's Neutral skincare range 2013/2014 campaign for Northern Europe.{{Cite web |url=http://www.brianbuchard.dk/Neutral |title=Neutral Campaign, 2013 |access-date=29 January 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304043501/http://www.brianbuchard.dk/Neutral |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}

On stage, Pravda played Portia in Julius Caesar at the Menier Chocolate Factory's opening production in 2004.[http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/1192/julius-caesar Julius Caesar review, The Stage, 2004] Her other stage work includes: Magdalena in Fighting the Tide for Hull Truck Theatre (2002);{{Cite web |url=http://www.ba-education.com/for/entertainment/htt/fightingthetide.html |title=Fighting the Tide review, BA Entertainment 2002 |access-date=21 January 2014 |archive-date=19 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819085617/http://www.ba-education.com/for/entertainment/htt/fightingthetide.html |url-status=dead }} Clare in the New End Theatre's Commanding Voices (2002){{Cite web |url=http://www.ba-education.com/for/entertainment/htt/fightingthetide.html |title=Commanding Voices, New End Theatre review |access-date=21 January 2014 |archive-date=19 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819085617/http://www.ba-education.com/for/entertainment/htt/fightingthetide.html |url-status=dead }} with Jeremy Child; Lily in Zadie's Shoes at the Finborough Theatre (2003);[http://www.finboroughtheatre.co.uk/transition-archive/2003/archive_zadiesshoes.php Zadie's Shoes review, Finborough Theatre 2003]{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}[http://www.indielondon.co.uk/theatre/t_zadies_shoes_finb_prev.html Zadie's Shoes review, Indie London 2003] Miss Bingley in The Good Company's National tour of Pride and Prejudice (2005);[https://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/content/articles/2005/02/09/theatre_pride_prejudice_feature.shtml Pride and Prejudice, BBC Liverpool, 2005] Ana in Ana in Love at The Hackney Empire (2006);[http://thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/13003/ana-in-love Ana in Love review, The Stage 2006] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819083411/http://thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/13003/ana-in-love |date=19 August 2014 }} and Tara in The Death of Cool at the Tristan Bates Theatre (2007).[http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/15655/the-death-of-cool The Death of Cool review, The Stage 2007] Pravda is currently working as a professional drama teacher in Reading, helping high school students to pursue their admired careers as actors/actresses.

Isobel Pravda's grandmother, Hana Maria Pravda, was a Czech Jew who survived Auschwitz. A diary which she wrote on the Death March was discovered many years after the war and was exhibited at the Imperial War Museum in London. Isobel was asked to do a reading of the diary for Holocaust Memorial Day 2007 at the museum. Tomáš Hrbek, Lucie Kolouchová and Daniel Hrbek from Švandovo divadlo wrote the play The Good and the True, based on her grandmother's diary. She played her grandmother in the 2013/2014 tour to Prague, London,[http://www.jewishrenaissance.org.uk/isobel-pravda.html The Good and the True, The Jewish Renaissance, 2013] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819090435/http://www.jewishrenaissance.org.uk/isobel-pravda.html |date=19 August 2014 }}[http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/yorkshire-living/arts/theatre/review-the-good-and-the-true-1-5352786 The Good and the True, Yorkshire Post review, 2013][https://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/theatre/holocaust-diarist-is-played-by-actress-granddaughter-in-the-good-and-the-true-8448077.html The Good and the True, The Evening Standard, 2013] Brussels and New York.[http://www.svandovodivadlo.cz/index.php?cmd=news.detail&id=2040 The Good and the True, New York Review, 2014] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819085752/http://www.svandovodivadlo.cz/index.php?cmd=news.detail&id=2040 |date=19 August 2014 }}

Her father, Dr. Alex Pravda, is an academic. He is a member of the Governing Body of St Antony's College, Oxford.{{Cite web |url=http://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/people/pravda.html |title=Alex Pravda, St Antony's College |access-date=29 January 2014 |archive-date=18 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140218070250/http://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/people/pravda.html |url-status=dead }} Her mother, Imogen Martin, taught Classics and English. She has two sons.{{cite web |title=Family life |date=3 June 2011 |website=The Guardian |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180705033317/https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/jun/04/readers-favourite-photographs-songs-recipes |archive-date=5 July 2018 |url-status=live |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/jun/04/readers-favourite-photographs-songs-recipes}}[http://honestmum.com/wonderful-women-wednesday-actress-isobel-pravda/ Wonderful Women on Honest Mum] She is now a Drama teacher at Reading Girls’ School in Whitley, Reading.{{cn|date=November 2018}}

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