Known For
Acting
Born
Jul 17, 1917
Died
Oct 27, 1998
Place of Birth
Budapest, Hungary
Credits
76 titles
Klári Tolnay
Biography
Klári Tolnay (17 July 1914 – 27 October 1998) was a Hungarian actress. Klári Tolnay (born Rózsi Tolnay) was born on 17 July 1914 in Budapest, as the daughter of István Tolnay and Eleonóra Siess. She spent her childhood in the small village of Mohora, Nógrád county, on the estate of her father. Finishing elementary school there, she continued secondary school studies in Balassagyarmat, two years at the school operated by Institutum Beatae Mariae Virginis in Nyíregyháza, finishing high school in Debrecen's School of Business. Singing and playing music since childhood, she followed the advice of newspaper editor János Bókay, and auditioned herself to prominent actors of the time, Gábor Rajnai, Jenő Heltai, and Sándor Hevesi. After these early attempts were not followed by desired results, she was mentored by Béla Gaál, thus starting her career as a film actress at the Hunnia Film Studio. Her first notable role was in Meseautó, after which she was hired by the Vígszínház theatre in 1934, to perform smaller roles. In 1936 she married Ákos Ráthonyi, a director, giving birth to daughter Zsuzsanna 4 years later. After World War II ended in 1945, Ákos Ráthonyi left Hungary, with their daughter following after the 1956 revolution. Leaving the Vígszínház for the Művész Theatre in 1946-7, she met Iván Darvas, whom she later married (but divorced in 1958). In 1947, together with Gyula Benkő and István Somló, she was appointed as the co-manager of the Vígszínház theatre, where she was a major participant in restoring the institution to its pre-war glory. After the theatre was disbanded by the government in 1950, she joined the Madách Theatre, where she worked until her death on 27 October 1998. Description above from the Wikipedia article Klári Tolnay, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
A Karantén Zóna
Panni
Willy the Sparrow
Verbéna, a tündér (voice)
Kaviár és lencse
Matilde
A tönk meg a széle
Olgika
Kojak in Budapest
Szalánczyné
The Music's the Thing
Zsazsa néni
Saroküzlet
Mama
Adáshiba
Drága kisfiam!
Margit, anya
A bunker
Martinné
Legato
Zarkóczy Rózsika
Black Diamond
Teudelinda grófnő
Hungarian Folktales
Mesemondó
Time to Mature
Nagymama
There Was Once a Family
Bujták grófnõ
Good Evening, Love
Juhászné
Dreams of Love
Kozima, Liszt leánya
A Rose Garden of Six Acres
Ilka néni
Hasty Marriage
Anna - özvegy Komáromi Gézáné
A ravaszdi leányzó és az IBUSZ vendégek
Fölcint Lajosné
The Aga's Testament
Babocsainé
The Widow and the Police Officer
Late Season
Szilágyiné
Father
Anya
The Golden Kite
Anya
Skylark
Tóni, Vajkayné
Torchlight
Kossuth's wife
Well, Young Man?
Sándor Bálint's wife
A Bus Does Not Stop
The Land of Angels
Miklós' mother
Just a Joke
Bende Etelka
Don't Keep Off the Grass
Anna, Kéri felesége
Virrad
Elza, Szabó's wife
For Whom the Larks Sing
What a Night!
Karsai Klára
Dani
Aranka
Tale on the 12 Points
Bartháné, patikus
Gala Dinner
Márta
Relatives
Mrs. Déry
Déryné
Egy asszony elindul
Bangháné, Ilonka
Tüz
Asztalos Mária
The Siege of Beszterce
Apolka
Lady Over the Abyss
Jánossy Éva
The Song of Rákóczi
Krisztinka Oltay / Fruzsa néni / Cinka Panna
Féltékenység
Eszter
Fleeing Man
Klára / Marianne
Szerencsés flótás
Katyi
Varga Kató / Katyi
Gentry Nest
Kovács Zsuzsi