Ilona AczélHázasságkötése után Cs. Aczél Ilona néven szerepelt (7 November 1884, Királyhelmec,

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(now modern-day Kráľovský Chlmec,

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) – 5 March 1940,

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) was a Hungarian actress at the National Theatre in Budapest.

Life

Aczél was born Ilona Gabrielle Magdolna Alter to Sándor Alter and Paula Nebenzahl on the Hungarian Highland in 1884. She graduated from the

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in 1905, and became contracted in

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. In 1908, she became part of the National Theatre and, in December 1912, was contracted by the Hungarian Theatre between 1914 and 1935, and acted again in the National Theatre, and later featured in the Hungarian Theatre and Comedy Theatre. In 1928, she became a life member of the National Theatre. She founded an acting school in Budapest around 1936. She had a natural sense of humor, and was especially excelling in comedies, but she also prevailed in renditions of

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and Shaw's plays. In 1911, she married writer Kálmán Csathó.

Notable roles

* Béliné (

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: A hypochondriac) * Éva (Imre Madách: The Tragedy of Man) * Portia ( Shaw: A velencei kalmár) * Ella Rentheim ( Ibsen: John Gabriel Borkman) * Szűz Mária (Voinovich G.: Magyar Passió) * Júlia (Csathó K.: Az én lányom nem olyan) * Linka (Csathó: Te csak pipálj Ladányi) * Ilona (Csathó: A házasságok az égben köttetnek)

References

Magyar életrajzi lexikon
* ''Magyar színházművészeti lexikon.'' Főszerk. Székely György. Budapest: Akadémiai. 1994. * Kálmán Csathó: A régi Nemzeti Színház (Budapest, 1960) {{DEFAULTSORT:Aczel, Ilona 1884 births 1940 deaths 20th-century Hungarian actresses People from Trebišov District Hungarian stage actresses