Renowned Hungarian Movie and Theater Star Mari Törőcsik Passes Away
Celebrated actress Mari Törőcsik, Actress of the Nation, holder of two Kossuth prizes, the Kossuth Grand Prize and winner of the Prize for Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival, has died at 85, the National Theatre said on Friday.
Törőcsik was born in 1935 in Pély in northern Hungary, and got her first internationally acclaimed role in Zoltán Fábri’s Merry-Go-Round (Körhinta) as a first-year student of the University of Theatre and Film Arts.
During her carreer spanning half a century, Törőcsik played in films with almost all important Hungarian directors including Miklós Jancsó, Károly Makk, Péter Gárdos, Péter Tímár and Márta Mészáros.