Kata Wéber is a Hungarian screenwriter, playwright and former actress who often works with her husband, director

Kornél Mundruczó Kornél Mundruczó (; born 3 April 1975) is a Hungarian film and theatre director. His 2014 film '' White God'' won the Prize at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. While '' Tender Son: The Frankenstein Project'' (2010) and '' Jupiter's Moon'' (2 ...

. Wéber wrote '' White God'' (2014), ''

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'' (2017) and '' Pieces of a Woman'' (2020).

Career

Kata Wéber attended the University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest. She began her career as an actress, before moving into playwriting. Already knowing director

, Wéber collaborated with him in theatre. When Mundruczó began working in film, Wéber joined him, writing for '' White God'' and ''

''. However, the pair say that when they collaborate they "leave each other to work. heydon't disturb each other. heyhave to agree on a topic and on the approach how to do it but then heyhave

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own territories." She was invited to write a play for the

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in 2017, which became '' Pieces of a Woman'' after Mundruczó read her notes about child loss and encouraged her to write about it, which she says became like therapy though she had initially resisted turning the "too personal" experience into a play. To write it, she moved to

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, deliberately far away from Mundruczó and their daughter. In December 2018 they premiered the play in

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. Mundruczó said Wéber's notes "were the most personal and the most beautiful writing by Kata eever read".

Personal life

Wéber is married to Mundruczó, whom she met when she was an actress at university around the year 2000. They have experienced a

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, which inspired the play and film ''Pieces of a Woman''. They did not talk about the loss until making the play. They have a daughter. The couple also advocate for the arts in Hungary; after their alma mater was taken over by the government, they wore protest T-shirts at the

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, where ''Pieces of a Woman'' premiered. She is Jewish and the child of

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Weber, Kata Living people Date of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Hungarian women writers Hungarian actresses Hungarian women dramatists and playwrights Jewish Hungarian actors Jewish Hungarian writers Year of birth missing (living people) Hungarian women screenwriters 21st-century Hungarian screenwriters 21st-century Hungarian dramatists and playwrights