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Nationality
  
Hungarian

Movies
  
Son of Saul

Occupation
  
Actor, Poet

Awards
  
Kossuth Prize

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Born
  
May 11, 1967 (age 49) (
1967-05-11
)
Budapest, Hungary

Alma mater
  
Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest

Nominations
  
National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor, Cannes Best Actor Award

Similar
  
László Nemes, Levente Molnár, Urs Rechn, Clara Royer, Gábor Rajna

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Géza Röhrig (Hungarian: Röhrig Géza; born May 11, 1967) is a Hungarian actor and poet. He is best known for his role in the 2015 film Son of Saul, which won the Grand Prix at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

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Life and career

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Géza Röhrig was born on May 11, 1967, in Budapest, Hungary. His mother left the family after he was born, and his father died when he was four, so Röhrig spent his childhood in foster care. From the age of 12 he was raised by a Jewish family. In the 1980s, he was the frontman of an underground music band called Huckleberry (also known as HuckRebelly), whose concerts were almost always interrupted by the communist authorities. At university he studied Hungarian and Polish, and after a visit to Auschwitz during a study tour in Poland, he decided to become a Hasidic Jew in Brooklyn. He portrayed poet Attila József in a film by József Madaras. He studied filmmaking under István Szabó.

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He published two collections of poems on the theme of the Shoah, Hamvasztókönyv (literally "Book of Incineration", 1995) and Fogság ("Captivity", 1997). He graduated from the Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest with a degree in filmmaking. He has lived in the Bronx borough of New York City since 2000 where he received a degree from the Jewish Theological Seminary and has been a kindergarten teacher at Hannah Senesh Community Day School in Brooklyn, NY He was married twice and has four children. He has published many collections of poetry.

Prose

  • A Rebbe tollatépett papagája: képzelt haszid történetek (in Hungarian). Budapest: Múlt és Jövő. 1999. ISBN 963-9171-22-0. 

    • Poetry

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  • Hamvasztókönyv (in Hungarian). Budapest: Múlt és Jövö. 1995. ISBN 963-85295-2-0. 
  • Fogság (in Hungarian). Budapest: Széphalom Könyvműhely. 1997. ISBN 963-9028-10-X. 
  • Éj (in Hungarian). Budapest: Széphalom Könyvműhely. 1999. ISBN 963-9028-56-8. 
  • Sziget (in Hungarian). Budapest: Széphalom Könyvműhely. 2000. ISBN 963-9028-75-4. 
  • Törvény : [versek] (in Hungarian). Budapest: Múlt és Jövő. 2006. ISBN 963-9512-20-6. 
  • Honvágy (in Hungarian). Budapest: Múlt és Jövő. 2010. ISBN 978-963-9512-57-3. 
  • az ember aki a cipőjében hordta a gyökereit (in Hungarian). Budapest: Magvető. 2016. ISBN 978-963-14-3372-2. 

    • Film

  • 2015: Son of Saul by László Nemes: Saul

    • Television

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  • 1989: Közjáték, episode Mrożek: Levélkék (director)
  • 1989: Eszmélet by József Madaras, episodes 1 and 2: Attila József
  • 1990: Armelle by Jacek Lenczowski: Piotr

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    References

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