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.