Trivia

Children (with Vilsmaier): Janina Vilsmaier, Theresa Vilsmaier and Josefina Vilsmaier. All three sisters played Marlene Dietrich's daughter Maria Riva in Joseph Vilsmaier's Dietrich-biopic Marlene (2000) at various ages.

Sister of Hana Hermánková.

After some further roles including the films Amadeus and Pan Tau, she played the main role of Anna Wimschneider in Herbstmilch (English: Autumn Milk) under the directorship of Joseph Vilsmaier, whom she had married in 1986.

Dana Vávrová's cinematic career began in her then homeland, the former Czechoslovakia. There she stood in front of the camera as a child actress, for the movie: "Pan Tau - the film".

After her role in Herbstmilch as Anna Wimschneider in 1989, she became a household name in Cinema of Germany.

Vávrová was awarded a Bundesverdienstkreuz.

She was one of the most popular German actresses throughout 1980s and early 1990s.

Vávrová was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia and played her first main film role in At zijí duchové! (English: Long Live the Ghosts!) in 1976.

Dana Vávrová died of cervical cancer in Munich.

The three daughters of Vávrová and Vilsmaier, Janina Vilsmaier, Theresa Vilsmaier and Josefina Vilsmaier, are also active as actresses.

Together with Werner Stocker, she won the Bayerischer Filmpreis and the Deutscher Filmpreis for the movie Herbstmilch.

In 1982, she played the main role as Janina David in the German television mini-series Ein Stück Himmel, and was awarded the Goldene Kamera, the Goldener Gong, and an Adolf Grimme Award.

Vávrová's older sister, Hana Hermánková , is a television presenter in the Czech Republic.

In addition to acting, she also directed films, the last one being to complete the Artur Brauner production The Last Train, (German: Der letzte Zug) after her husband Joseph Vilsmaier, who had been directing, was involved in an accident.

In parallel with her acting, she attended the Prague Conservatory from 1981 to 1985.

She turned down the part of Ursula in Stuj, nebo se netrefím (1998), eventually played by Ivana Chýlková.