Klári Tolnay

Personal Info

Birthday

July 17, 1917

Day of Death

1998-10-27

(81 years old)

Place of Birth

Budapest, Hungary

Also Known As

Klári Tolnai

Tolnay Klári

Tolnay Rózsi

Rózsi Tolnay

Rozália Tolnay

Tolnay Rozália

Tolnay Klára

Klára Tolnay

Tolnai Klári

Клари Толнаи

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.