The artists Ildikó Hűvösvölgyi and Zoltán Seress will receive the Tolnay Klári Art Award this year; the awards will be presented on Monday, September 4, at the Tolnay Klári Memorial House in Mohora, Nógrád County - Viktória Beniczky, secretary general of the Tolnay Klári Cultural and Art Association, informed MTI on Thursday.
The award of the art award was decided in 2014, on the 100th anniversary of the birth of the legendary actress. The award depicting the gerbil, Tolnay Klári's most beloved bird, is awarded by the Tolnay Klári Prize Board of Trustees.
Ildikó Kossuth Prize-winning actor from Hűvösvölgy also appeared in prose and music-dance plays.
He played the role of Mindlevery in Webber's musical Cats, but he sang opera, he was Papagéna in Mozart's Magic Flute. Among her stage roles were The Abduction of the Szabin Women (Retteginé), Úri muri (Rozika) or Mario and the Wizard (Angiolierné), among her TV films were Siege of Beszterce, Laényvásár or They Know What Love Is.
He played in the Karinthy Theater, the Cellar Theater, the Budaörs Theater, and the Jászai Mari Theater in Tatabánya, among others. Permanent member of the Petőfi Theater in Sopron. He received the Kossuth Award in 2015, and was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit in 2012.
Seress Zoltán Jászai Mari award-winning actor, former director of the Bárka Theater, started working at the Vígszínház in 1987, and became a member of the company again in 2016. He was a member of the Művész Színház and Thália Színház.
He performed in nearly a hundred theater shows, in plays such as Liliomfi, The Servant of Two Lords or Much Ado about Nothing, he appeared in The Bridgeman, The Glass Tiger, The Old-Fashioned Story, among his dubbing roles was Frankie Carbone in Great Men, Scorsese's crime drama.
At the donation ceremony, Judit Juhász, the spokesperson of the Hungarian Academy of Arts, the main patron of the event, and Tünde Balla, the institutional manager of the Tolnay Klári Memorial House, will present the awards. Mihály Balla, the region's parliamentary representative, gives a welcome speech. Gábor Mohai, a Kazinczy award-winning performer, will be the presenter.
The Tolnay Klári Award was given to Éva Vándor and Gábor Reviczky in 2015, Anna Kubik and Venczel Vera the following year, Ilona Béres, Ilona Bencze and Tamás Dunai in 2017, then Angela Császár, Kati Zsurzs and Tibor Szilágyi.
In recent years, actors Anna Nagy, Erika Szegedi, György Cserhalmi, Enikő Tóth, Péter Blaskó, Gyula Szersén, Péter Haumann and Sándor Lukács, as well as costume designer Erzsébet Rátkai and director Viktor Nagy, received the Tolnay Klári Award, and the work of ceramic artist Mária Petrás.
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