Isobel Pravda is English/Czech, her grandparents were the Czech actors
George and Hana Pravda.
She trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, graduating
with the Peter Wolff bursary. Straight out of Drama School she took the
female lead in the BBC1 series The Impressionists opposite Richard
Armitage. She went on to work in numerous theatrical productions,
notably playing Portia in Julius Ceasar at the Menier Chocolate
Factory. While working in Athens for three years she produced and
starred in a bi-lingual production of The Vagina Monologues at the
Olympic Badminton Theatre. In 2013 she starred in The Good and the
True, a play based on her grandmother's survival of Auschwitz, which
toured to Prague, London, Brussels and goes to New York.
Her television work includes Ambassadors (2013) for the BBC with Tom
Hollander, and A Life Less Ordinary (2013) for Channel 4. She was the
face of Unilever's Neutral face cream (2013).
Isobel is also an exhibited painter. She speaks Greek, Czech and
French. She has two sons, Teo and Alex.