Róbert Halák

Halák was born in Šala and grew up in the nearby small town of Vlčany. In 1997 he graduated from a conservatory in Bratislava. Already as a student, he was active as an actor at the New Scene theater. In 1997-2020 he played in various theatre and television productions, mainly soap operas.^[2] In 2008, Halák received Literary Fund prize for playing Tony in the West Side Story musical.^[3]

In 2020, he was elected to parliament on the Ordinary People and Independent Personalities list. In October 2022 he caused a disruption in parliamentary activity by destroying the parliament's computer and communication systems. The parliament session was suspected on 27 October as a result of ICT systems failure, which was originally blamed on a hacker attack. Nonetheless, in early October, the speaker, Boris Kollár announced the issue was caused by "incorrectly connected cables".^[4] Halák was later revealed as a culprit, although he denied sabotaging the equipment on purpose, stating he does not even own a computer and connected the cables only as a spontaneous reaction to seeing loose cables in a meeting room in the parliament building.^[5]