Born in Martin, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia) in 1974, Barbora Bobulova graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Arts of Bratislava and briefly studied in New York before moving to Italy in the mid-1990s. Her first major role was in Marco Bellocchio's Il principe di Homburg (1997) but her breakthrough role came almost a decade later, when she played the greedy businesswoman who finds her true vocation in Cuore sacro (2005). Her outstanding performance won her every major award of the Italian film industry: David di Donatello, Silver Ribbon, Golden Globe, Golden Ciak and Flaiano Prize.