Dagmar Bruckmayerová

In both the movies Tango s komármi (2009) and Viditeľný svet (2011), the actress played a similar role of a lonely woman. In the former, she portrayed Tereza, who tries to seduce plumber Bohdan (Eugen Libezňuk) with various remarks, while he is working. In the second movie, she plays Veronika, who is determined to get a man by any means necessary, with little regard for the annoying stalking of the protagonist Oliver (Ivan Trojan). Neither of these cases work out: in Viditeľný svet, Verokina even admits that: "I enjoy my job so much, it feels like there isn’t much time for anything else… Sometimes I think that happiness doesn't even exist anymore”.

Bruckmayerová also showed her talent in front of cameras by acting as an antagonist in various fairy tales for young children, until she was approached by director Ivan Petrovický with the role of a beautiful princess in the fable Princezná v ježovej koži (1994). With reference to the role, she has said: "I was fairly surprised when I heard I was going to play a princess… I just couldn't imagine myself as a melancholic beauty. When I was first applying to VŠMU, my brothers made fun of me, saying: 'Are you sure they will accept you? They only accept good-looking girls, you know...'" In the end, the fairy tale was well received in part due to Bruckmayerová's performance. One of her co-stars was Ján Kroner, in the role of the groomer Ján. Another point of interest is the fact that the actress performed the role of the young princess not too long after giving birth to her daughter Tereza. She was forced to step down from public life due to familial responsibilities, which meant her voice could only be heard in dubbed television programs and movies in cinemas. She has said: "I don't pick the characters, but I love doing voiceovers for the ones which have an emotionally rich life. They bear their burden and have something they want to say. The psychology behind such characters is completely different. Trying to get into the role and feel just as the actress on screen does is very important to me and sometimes doing voiceovers for these characters even brings me to tears."

During her academic years, the young actress performed in various theatre plays. She worked at the Slovak National Theatre (SND), the Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav theatre (DPOH), the Malá scéna theatre, and Astorka Korzo '90 theatre. In 1988, she played the small role of Xenia, the daughter of Godunov, in a play inspired by Russian history – Dmitry Samozvanets, by classic Slovak author Ján Palárik. She got a bigger role in the historical drama Herodes and Herodias, written by P. O. Hviezdoslav, and directed by Miloš Pietor. She also took on the role of Oscar Wilde's Salome, garnering positive reviews: "The convincing Dagmar Bajnoková performed in the premiere, achieving all that could be expected from a debuting student of acting."

Bruckmayerová first began studying acting at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (VŠMU) in 1987 and graduated from the faculty of theatre in 1991. Some of her better-known classmates include Roman Pomajbo, Peter Mankovecký, Roman Matisko, Zuzana Mauréry, and Henrieta Mičkovicová.

After graduating from middle school in 1983, Bruckmayerová applied to a gymnasium in Krasňany. At the same time, she started attending the Ludus theatre, which was at that time still an amateur theatre targeted towards younger audiences, with performances of both national and foreign classics. Bruckmayerová got her first major role in 1985 in the play Fairytale by Ján Buzássy. Some of her fellow actors and colleagues would later become well-known actors, including Vladimír Hajdu, Roman Luknár, Andrej Kraus, Michal Gučík, Peter Sklár, Elena Podzámska, Oľga Belešová, and others.

Dagmar Bruckmayerová (née Bajnoková; 20 May 1969) is a Slovak actress. She was born in Bratislava. She is of partially Hungarian origin on her father's side.