- Mother of Yanna Fabian.
- She was a Czech singer and actress.
- After marrying the actor Karel Urbánek she moved to Prague, where she worked at Magician's Lantern and was part of the CSSPT (the Czechoslovak State Ensemble of Songs and Dances).
- As a singer, her major hits were "Závidim" (Czech cover of "Il ragazzo della via Gluck") and "Drahy muj" (Czech cover of "A Dear John Letter"), in duet with Jirí Grossmann.
- In the 1960s and 1970s, she appeared in Closely Watched Trains, Larks on a String and Seclusion Near a Forest.
- Urbánková had her breakout in 1964, when she started a ten-years-run in the stage company of the Semafor theatre, and made her film debut in the successful musical 'If a Thousand Clarinets'.
- Starting from 1972, she won five Golden Nightingales in a row.
- Urbánková grew up in Borovnicka and graduated as a nurse at the Higher Medical School in Trutnov.
- Urbánková died on 3 February 2023, from complications from cancer and COVID-19, at the age of 83.
- She was part of the Jirí Brabec 's Country Beat band.
- After some experience in amateur dramatics, she made her professional stage debut in 1959 in the Pardubice Theatre.
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