Marián Mitaš is an actor, puppeteer and host. He was born in Považská Bystrica in 1980. In 2006 he graduated from the Department of Puppetry of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. After graduating, he began working in the Dezorz Puppet Theatre, the only puppet theatre for adults in Slovakia. Besides that, he works as a DJ and host in Radio FM and performs at the P. O. Hviezdoslav Municipal Theatre in Bratislava. His debut in film came with an episodic role in Michael Haneke’s Time of the Wolf (Le temps du loup, 2003) followed by parts in the films Visible World (Viditeľný svet, 2009, d. Peter Krištúfek), The House (Dom, 2010, d. Zuzana Liová), Candidate (Kandidát, 2013, d. Jonáš Karásek), Home Care (Domácí péče, 2015, d. Slávek Horák), Milada (2017, d. David Mrnka), The Zookeeper’s Wife (2017, d. Niki Caro). After the drama Toman (2018, d. Ondřej Trojan), we will see him in the spring of 2019 in Teodor Kuhn’s By a Sharp Knife (Ostrým nožom) and in the adaptation of Simon Mawer’s book The Glass Room (Skleněný pokoj, d. Julius Ševčík).
Mitaš’s audience also know him from the TV series Doctor’s Office In The Rose Garden, City of the Shadows, Homicide Old Town, The Sentenced, Dr. Ludsky, Wild Wine, Secret Lives, Inspector Max, Dads or Mistresses.