Milan Kňažko | |
Order: | Minister of Culture |
Term Start: | 30 October 1998 |
Term End: | 15 October 2002 |
Predecessor: | Ivan Hudec |
Successor: | Rudolf Chmel |
Office2: | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
Term Start2: | 24 June 1992 |
Term End2: | 19 March 1993 |
Predecessor2: | office created |
Successor2: | Jozef Moravčík |
Birth Date: | 1945 8, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Horné Plachtince, ČSR |
Party: | |
Primeminister: | Mikuláš Dzurinda |
Milan Kňažko (born 28 August 1945) is a Slovak actor and politician. He was one of the leading personalities of the Public against Violence movement in November 1989 and one of the most popular faces of the Velvet Revolution in Slovakia.
Kňažko starred in Devět kruhů pekla, which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival.[1]
He had a key supporting role in the 2007 horror film , where he portrayed Sasha, the leader and manager of the Elite Hunting Club.
From 2016–2019 he starred in a Czech translation of the play Shylock by Canadian playwright Mark Leiren-Young at Divadlo Na Jezerce in Prague.[2] The play was filmed and shown as a television special on Czech TV.[3]