Cast

Klári Tolnay

Acting

Cast

Klári Tolnay

Known for

Acting

Born

1917-07-17

From

Budapest, Hungary

Died

1998-10-27

Also known as Klári Tolnai, Tolnay Klári, Tolnay Rózsi

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.

Klári Tolnay

Klári Tolnay

Biography

A Rose Garden of Six Acres

Drága kisfiam!

Alpine Sunlight

Kádár vs. Kerekes

Late Season

Time to Mature

Hasty Marriage

Lady Over the Abyss

Relatives

The Siege of Beszterce

The Widow and the Police Officer

Fleeing Man

The Song of Rákóczi

Azurexpress

Katyi

Mrs. Déry

Féltékenység

Three Bells

Keresztúton

The Dream Car

Férfihűség

For Whom the Larks Sing

A Karantén Zóna

The Aga's Testament

The Land of Angels

The Music's the Thing

The New Relative

Gentry Nest

Adáshiba

A Kiss and That's All

Queen Elizabeth

There Are Exceptions

Róza néni elintézi

Silent Monastery

The Wise Mother

Good Evening, Love

Torchlight

Szerencsés flótás

A ravaszdi leányzó és az IBUSZ vendégek

Be True Until Death

Six Weeks of Happiness

Willy the Sparrow

The Golden Kite

Dani

Vision by the Lake

The Borrowed Castle

A tönk meg a széle

Az ördög nem alszik

Pista tekintetes úr

Wedding in Toprin

The Lady is a Little Crazy

Back on the Road

There Was Once a Family

Love Is Not a Shame

Father

Kojak in Budapest

Virrad

What a Night!

Dreams of Love

Gala Dinner

Tale on the 12 Points

Just a Joke

The Crucial Moment

Don't Keep Off the Grass

Egy asszony elindul

Black Diamond

Skylark

Tüz

A Bus Does Not Stop

Saroküzlet

My Daughter Is Different

Legato

Kaviár és lencse

Well, Young Man?