Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Miroslav Táborský appears in 9 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Miroslav. White Bird is the clearest case: a film rated 7.2 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, quiet performance, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for comedy, family, fantasy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Marta Ferencová, Marc Forster, Karel Janák and others, Miroslav Táborský helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
White Bird (2023) as Monsieur Lafleur · EuroTrip (2004) as Waiter at Opulent Hotel · Jak si nevzít princeznu (2021) as King Richard
Career snapshot
A Nutevio catalogue profile for Miroslav Táborský.
Films in Nutevio
9
1997–2027
Career length
30 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.2
White Bird
Average Nutevio score
5.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.8
White Bird
Most frequent director
Marta Ferencová
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Marta Ferencová
Most common genre
Comedy
4 titles
Average runtime
1h 11m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.8
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.4
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2000s
6.3 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Hostel, The Brothers Grimm, EuroTrip — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.3
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.2
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Snow White: A Tale of Terror.
Most productive era
2020s
4 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | — | 6.21 film | 7.21 film |
| Action | — | 6.11 film | — | — |
| Thriller | — | 6.11 film | — | — |
| Comedy | — | 6.42 films | 6.21 film | 0.01 film |
| Horror | 6.21 film | 6.11 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1997Snow White: A Tale of Terror
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Gustav.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2023White Bird
7.2 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2027Bobule a bobulky
The current state of the argument.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
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9 of 9 films
as Monsieur Lafleur
Directed by Marc Forster
Directed by Marta Ferencová
Directed by Unknown
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Monsieur Lafleur
White Bird (2023)
Performance score7.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Monsieur Lafleur gives Miroslav Táborský a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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King Richard
Jak si nevzít princeznu (2021)
Performance score6.8
Jak si nevzít princeznu asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. King Richard is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Waiter at Opulent Hotel
EuroTrip (2004)
Performance score6.6
EuroTrip asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Waiter at Opulent Hotel is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Bobule a bobulky
Bobule a bobulky (2027)
Performance score6.5
Bobule a bobulky asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. The role is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Monsieur Lafleur
Start here. White Bird is the clearest statement of what Miroslav Táborský does — accessible, 121 minutes, and rated 7.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Miroslav at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
EuroTrip (2004)
A deliberate change of key after White Bird — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Jak si nevzít princeznu (2021)
A deliberate change of key after EuroTrip — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Princess Stella (2026)
Keeps the fantasy register of Jak si nevzít princeznu but asks for a colder reading of it.
Bobule a bobulky (2027)
Keeps the family register of Princess Stella but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Alec Berg
Director
1 film together
Notably EuroTrip
Terry Gilliam
Director
1 film together
Notably The Brothers Grimm
Eli Roth
Director
1 film together
Notably Hostel
Karel Janák
Director
1 film together
Notably Jak si nevzít princeznu
Marc Forster
Director
1 film together
Notably White Bird
Marta Ferencová
Director
1 film together
Notably Bobule a bobulky
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Marc Forster
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
White BirdAlec Berg
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
EuroTripKarel Janák
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jak si nevzít princeznuEli Roth
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HostelTerry Gilliam
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Brothers GrimmMarta Ferencová
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bobule a bobulkySix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
White Bird
as Monsieur Lafleur
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Princess Stella
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
White Bird
as Monsieur Lafleur
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
EuroTrip
as Waiter at Opulent Hotel
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
White Bird
as Monsieur Lafleur
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Miroslav Táborský has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
30 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
4 catalogue titles in comedy, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Jak si nevzít princeznu
as King Richard
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Snow White: A Tale of Terror
as Gustav
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Princess Stella
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Jak si nevzít princeznu
as King Richard
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Brothers Grimm
as Old Miller
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Brothers Grimm
as Old Miller
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
White Bird
as Monsieur Lafleur
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Brothers Grimm
as Old Miller
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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