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.
Adáshiba
The Dream Car
(Sári)
The Borrowed Castle
(Gruber Mary)
Love Is Not a Shame
(Suzanne,francia nevelõnõ)
Father
(Anya)
Willy The Sparrow
(Verbéna)
Katyi
(Varga Kató / Katyi)
My Daughter Is Different
(Gitta, Hubay Péter lánya)
The Lady is a Little Crazy
(Takács Klári, Bimbi)
A tönk meg a széle
(Olgika)
Róza néni elintézi
(Róza néni)
Black Diamond
(Teudelinda grófnő)
Good Evening, Love
(Juhászné)
A Karantén Zóna
(Panni)
Tale on the 12 Points
(Bartháné, patikus)
Don't Keep Off the Grass
(Anna, Kéri felesége)
For Whom the Larks Sing
A Rose Garden of Six Acres
(Ilka néni)
There Are Exceptions
(Kántor Vera)
The Land of Angels
(Miklós' mother)
Skylark
(Tóni, Vajkayné)
Saroküzlet
(Mama)
A Kiss and That's All
(Nadányi Ervinné, Anni)
The Widow and the Police Officer
Mrs. Déry
(Déryné)
Just a Joke
(Bende Etelka)
Silent Monastery
Hasty Marriage
(Anna - özvegy Komáromi Gézáné)
Legato
(Zarkóczy Rózsika)
The Siege of Beszterce
(Apolka)
Time to Mature
(Nagymama)
Az ördög nem alszik
(Éva)
Lady Over the Abyss
(Jánossy Éva)
Kádár vs. Kerekes
(Kádár Erzsi ügyvéd)
Fleeing Man
(Klára / Marianne)
Alpine Sunlight
(Fifi, a vezérigazgató lánya)
Back on the Road
(Anny)
What a Night!
(Karsai Klára)
Dani
(Aranka)
The Music's the Thing
(Zsazsa néni)
The Aga's Testament
(Babocsainé)
Gentry Nest
(Kovács Zsuzsi)
Wedding in Toprin
(A gróf felesége)
Kojak in Budapest
(Szalánczyné)
A Bus Does Not Stop
Gala Dinner
(Márta)
There Was Once a Family
(Bujták grófnõ)
A ravaszdi leányzó és az IBUSZ vendégek
(Fölcint Lajosné)
The Wise Mother
(Erzsike)
The Crucial Moment
(Éva, Bálint Gábor felesége)
Féltékenység
(Eszter)
Three Bells
Well, Young Man?
(Sándor Bálint's wife)
Relatives
Egy asszony elindul
(Bangháné, Ilonka)
Tüz
(Asztalos Mária)
Queen Elizabeth
Kaviár és lencse
(Matilde)
Virrad
(Elza, Szabó's wife)
Six Weeks of Happiness
(Eva)
Azurexpress
(Teri)
Vision by the Lake
Férfihűség
Pista tekintetes úr
Keresztúton
The Song of Rákóczi
(Krisztinka Oltay / Fruzsa néni / Cinka Panna)
Szerencsés flótás
Dreams of Love
(Kozima, Liszt leánya)
A bunker
(Martinné)
Hungarian Folktales
(Mesemondó)