Trivia

Was a schoolteacher until she retired. Began her acting career in her '70s.

She gained national fame in Tamás Vitray's show.

She was always attracted to the stage, but succumbed to the will of her parents and became a teacher.

In 1984, Györ theater director József Bor heard her recite at a ceremony in honor of Mari Jászai, and offered her a stage role in Ödön von Horváth's Mesél a bécsi erdö (Tales from the Vienna Woods ).

Her ashes were laid to rest in the public cemetery in Pécs.

She was nicknamed the Grandmother of the Nation.

She was the niece of the actress Mari Jászai, whom she respected as her role model.

She attended the Györ State Teachers' College, and after receiving her qualification in 1929.

From 2004 on, she lived in Nagyboldogasszony Ház in Piliscsaba.

She performed, among others, at the Petöfi Theater in Veszprém.

She raised five children with her husband.

At at the age of 79, she got his first film role.

On the occasion of her 100th birthday, she was celebrated for two days, one day the family members, and the next day the residents and workers of the home, as well as the mayor of Piliscsaba, greeted the elderly artist.

She was a Hungarian actress, mostly known as Aunt Joli, and her best-known theater role was : Mrs. Bodnárné.

After the war, in 1950, she settled in Pécs with her husband, who had previously been the farm officer of the Dukes of Esterházy, and started teaching again.

She first appeared on stage in 1985.

She found her other half in the person of Jenö Horváth. Jenö Horváth, her husband, was perhaps the best farm official of the Esterházys.

She was fifteen years old when her father enrolled her in the teacher training school in Györ. She already taught, almost with the head of a young woman, who tried to educate children a few years younger than her to be wise.

She didn't want to be an actress, she didn't want to act, she just wanted to teach. Then suddenly, as if the script had changed, as if someone had written it without her knowledge, because one fine day she recited a poem at the inauguration of the statue of Mari Jászai. But in such a way that the audience trembled, and then József Bor approached her and offered her a role. He saw her shocked face, when she thought: "Is this a joke or a gift of life?" Well, it was the latter. Over seventy years old, she probably made her debut as an actor for the first time in world history.

She was born the 9th child out of ten children.