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After school, she got a job at the FX Salda Theatre in Liberec. She then moved to the Naive Theatre Liberec, later Studio Ypsilon, with which she moved to Prague in the late 1970s.

Synková attended a drama club as a child, later she was a student at the Mladá Boleslav Theatre and graduated from DAMU.

Came from a family of Prague lawyers, but she carried artistic genes through her maternal grandparents.

In 1969, Jana Synková joined the company of the Naive Theatre of Liberec, which later transformed into Ypsilonka and has been operating in Prague since 1978.

Jana Synková was a Czech actress. Her maternal grandparents were well-known theatre personalities and she attended an acting club from an early age.

In 2019 she was nominated for the Czech Lion for Best Supporting Actress for the film Chata na prodej.

In 1974, she received the Literature Fund's Creative Award.

During her studies, she attended the Maringotka experimental theatre from 1964 to 1965.

In the 1970s, there were important changes in theatre Czech culture, with the formation of the Ypsilon Theatre, which moved to Prague at the end of 1978. Here, Synková developed comedic skills with a preference for the grotesque. She toured all over Europe with the Ypsilon Theatre.

She died half a year after her husband, after a long illness, in a sanatorium.