Doc. Jana Janěková, born Válková (* June 5, 1955 Zlín), is Czech actress, director, photographer and theater pedagogue, sister conductor Roman Válka. He comes from an artistic family, his father was a musician, a choirmaster and a pedagogue, a well-known musician is her younger brother Roman. At the Prague Conservatory in 1976, he studied music and drama. During her studies she was guest in the E. F. Burian and J. Wolker Theaters. Her first theatrical engagement became East Bohemian Theater in Pardubice, where she worked in 1976-1978, then she played shortly in Hradec Králové. In the years 1979-1981 she played in the Oldřich Stibor Theater in Olomouc, from 1980 to 1985 in Ostrava Bezruč Theater. There was a long-standing engagement at the State Theater in Brno (today's National Theater Brno), where she worked as an actress and director from 1987 to 2005.
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