Janko Kroner (born 1 June 1956) is a Slovak film, television and stage actor. Once a regular cast of the Slovak National Theater (SND) (1987–2009), Kroner began his acting career as part of the New Scene (1982–86). In the mid 1990s, alongside staging for his home theater, he gradually began appearing in a local VA-based ensemble called a.ha. In the most recent decade, he has been known as the frontman of the Malá scénaSTU, a body supervised by Kroner through 2010-2011.[7][8]
As a member of the Slovak acting "dynasty" that span three generations to date,[5][9][10] Kroner himself has received numerous nominations in his native country, including two LitFond Awards for Performing Arts in Drama, as well two television-focused OTO Awards as TV Male Actor, respectively. Amongst others, he is the only son of Ján Kroner, or rather a nephew of Jozef Kroner.
Filmography
I was a first-year student on elementary school in Považská Bystrica, when amateur actors came to our school to play The Salt Prince fairytale. My father played the King. He was very funny, I remember [that] all children would have a good laugh of him. So I'd wished for all the children to know [that] the King was my father. No one would believe me, though, and I felt too badly for that."[11]
— Kroner on his first experience with acting, Webnoviny, 2010
Bakošová-Hlavenková, Zuzana (2010). "Ján Kroner". Elixír smiechu: Jozef Kroner a Kronerovci. Series "Osobnosti" (in Slovak and English) (1st ed.). Bratislava, Slovakia: Academy of Performing Arts, Theater Institute. p. 353. ISBN978-80-89439-03-4. OCLC714879495.
^Vraštiak, Štefan (2004). "Jozef z hereckého rodu KRONEROVCOV". Film.sk (in Slovak). Vol. 3/2004. Slovenský filmový ústav. old.filmsk.sk. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved February 26, 2015. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
^Zimmermannová, Zuzana (August 24, 2010). "Janko Kroner: Principál na gríne". SITA (in Slovak). Slovenská tlačová agentúra. webnoviny.sk. Retrieved February 25, 2015.
^LitFond (2005). "Ceny za umelecké výkony v rokoch 1994–2003". 50 rokov činnosti LF 1954–2004(PDF) (in Slovak). Bratislava: Slovenský literárny fond. pp. 249, 251. Retrieved February 25, 2015.
^LitFond. "Prémie v oblasti divadla". Ceny a prémie LF udelené za rok 2009(PDF) (in Slovak). Slovenský literárny fond. p. 12. Retrieved February 25, 2015.
Renáta Šmatláková (ed.). "Ján Kroner > Filmography". Slovak Film Database (in English and Slovak). Slovak Film Institute. sfd.sfu.sk. Archived from the original on February 25, 2015. Retrieved February 25, 2015.
"Ján Kroner > Filmography". Czecho-Slovak Film Database (in Czech and Slovak). POMO Media Group. csfd.cz. Retrieved February 25, 2015.
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