She trained at
LAMDA and was signed by Ken McReddie. In the UK, Brychta went on to play Juliet in
Romeo & Juliet, Ophelia in
Hamlet, Desdemona in
Othello, and Marguerite in the world premiere of Vaclav Havel's
Largo Desolato, directed by Tom Stoppard. She played Sybil Burlington in the award-winning West End production of
Daisy Pulls It Off, produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Brychta appeared in TV series such as
Maelstrom,
Gentleman and Players,
Lovejoy,
Just Good Friends and
Taggart, as well as the award-winning
The Escape (
Border in the UK) and the BAFTA-nominated
The Britoil Affair. She also, from 1997 to 1998, was the face of the
Sainsbury's Reward Card, succeeding the role from
Caron Keating. Brychta was cast in the role of
Princess Diana in
NBC's
Behind The Palace Doors and moved to
Los Angeles. She went on to be cast in roles alongside
Julia Roberts in
Conspiracy Theory,
Jim Carrey in
Man On The Moon,
James Garner in
The Rockford Files and
Angela Lansbury in
Murder She Wrote. She also acted alongside
Stellan Skarsgård and
Lena Olin in the Swedish film
Friends. She worked with directors Ronald Neame, Milos Forman, Richard Donner, and in Mark Rydell's
Crime Of The Century for HBO with Isabella Rossellini and Stephen Rea. In the
Czech Republic, Brychta played in her native language in two films, including the lead role of Anna in
Jan Sverak's Akumulator 1. She also starred in the French TV series
Cinq Filles à Paris. Brychta has done voice-over for animated films such as
Ice Age: Continental Drift,
Cosmos, and
The Bunbury Tails, and features including
The Bourne Identity,
Pirates Of The Caribbean and
Man of Steel, as the voice of the mother ship. Brychta has voiced various video game characters including Natasha in
Red Alert 3. She has featured in radio plays for the BBC, including the critically acclaimed
Me, Cheeta: My Life in Hollywood with
John Malkovich. Brychta has voiced audio books including
Jane Goodall's Seeds of Hope and was nominated for an Audie for the trilogy,
This Man. She performed a live narration for Leonard Bernstein's The Kaddish at Royce Hall in Los Angeles. She featured in Daniel Deronda, A Room With a View, Watch on the Rhine, and the Tony-award-winning Oslo for
LA Theater Works. == Personal life ==