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Marek Vašut

Czech actor, photographer, artist, and television presenter

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ324068 ↗
Source-derived summary

Marek Vašut (born 5 May 1960 in Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech film, stage, and television actor, best known for his appearances in Solomon Kane and Blade II. He voiced the character Tommy Angelo for the Czech version of the video game Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven. Vašut later reprised his role as Tommy in the 2020 remake Mafia: Definitive Edition. He also portrays Otto von Bergow in the single-player RPG game Kingdom Come Deliverance II.

Education

Vašut had first travelled to New York City to attend the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. Vašut also attended and the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.

Editorial summary

“Marek Vašut” enters the record as czech actor, photographer, artist, and television presenter. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Marek, Vašut and Czech can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1960, 2020—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1960-05-05. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Marek, Vašut and Czech.
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Why this record matters

“Marek Vašut” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Marek, Vašut and Czech provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q324068. VIAF identifies the subject as 84019028. The Library of Congress control number is no2010208021. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1960 and 2020.

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This entry incorporates text from “Marek Vašut” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.