Slovakia was small to them! The actresses made a name for themselves abroad
Alexandra Borbély (36)
The native of Nitra is of Hungarian origin. After graduating from the grammar school in Komárno, she was not accepted at the VŠMU, so she chose to study acting in the Hungarian capital. And she did well. After school, she got a job at the József Katona Theater and today she is very much a theater and film actress. Her biggest success was the Hungarian romantic drama About the Body and the Soul.
Her Mária is a meticulous meat quality expert who is afraid of physical intimacy. Despite this phobia, they approach the physically handicapped financial director of the slaughterhouse, Endre. And they fall in love. In 2017, Borbély won the Best European Actress Award at the European Film Awards for her role as Mária. She played in several Hungarian films and TV series. Her husband Ervin Nagy is also an actor, he acts in the Hungarian version of the series Pán profesor and is as popular here as Tomáš Maštalír.
Antónia Lišková (45)
The native of Bojnice has been living and working in Italy for over 25 years. She left there at the age of seventeen after studying at a high school of pharmacy and chemistry. At first she was a waitress in a Roman bar, then a babysitter. She modeled in Milan for two years. When she accompanied her friend to the casting for the role of a Russian spy, the filmmakers cast Antonia in her role. Since then, she has appeared in television series and films. In the Italian film Riparo (Shelter) she played a homosexual partner, but she also played in a film with a religious theme, Mary of Nazareth.
She also played in the series Enchantment, Stolen Children and All Crazy for Love. She received a nomination for the Italian film award Donatello Dávid. In Slovakia, you could see her in 2018 in the role of the doctor Kristina in the series Milenky, a year later with the romantic comedy Happy New Year. In 2010, Lišková married plastic surgeon Luca Ferrarese, but their daughter Liliana was already five years old. Two years after the wedding, the couple broke up.