Aranka Gizella Mária Váradi was born 11 March 1885 in Budapest, Hungary to Antal Váradi (1854-1923) and Gabriella Hickman (1855-1845) and died 5 January 1966 Palma de Mallorca, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain of unspecified causes. She married Sándor Fekete (1885-1973) 27 July 1916 in Budapest, Hungary. She married Miklós Bánffy de Losoncz (1873-1950) 25 January 1939 in Budapest, Hungary.
Aranka Gizella Mária Váradi (Budapest, March 11, 1886 - Palma de Mallorca, January 5, 1966) was a Hungarian actress. She started playing at the National Theater of Budapest in 1903 and became permanent member of the National Theater in 1923. She left Hungary soon after her last stage appearance in 1947 and settled in Mallorca, Spain.
Career
Aranka was the daughter of Antal Váradi a Hungarian playwright and poet, playwright and of Gabriella Hickmann. She graduated from Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest (now University of Theatre and Film Arts) and the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, studying singing. In 1903 she was admitted to the National Theater, and from 1923 she was a perpetual member of the institution. In the beginning, she played only minor roles but she soon became one of the major artists of the National Theater. She was 23 years old when he made his first success in the role of Hedvig in Ibsen's The Wild Duck. In 1908 she won the Farkas-Ratko prize . She often turned around in the countryside and in Pécs . His last appearance took place in 1947. She later moved abroad.
Private life
Her first husband dr. Sándor Fekete was a physician who led the Alliance Street Hospital from 1921, later founder of Semmelweis Medical History Museum. [1] Married on July 27, 1916 in Budapest, Józsefváros . [2] They were divorced in 1924. [3] Váradi Aranka met Miklós Bánffy and later married him in Budapest, Józsefváros, on January 25, 1939. [4]
Major roles
- Dolly (Shaw : You Never Can Tell)
- Hedvig (Ibsen: The Wild Duck);
- Herma (Herczeg: Byzantium)
- Cleopatra (Shaw: Caesar and Cleopatra);
- Electra (Leconte de Lisle: Les Érinnyes)
- Anna (Shaw: Man and Superman);
- Puck Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream);
- Cordelia (Shakespeare: King Lear);
- Margarete (Goethe: Faust);
- Nora (Ibsen: A Doll's House);
- Roxane (Rostand: Cyrano de Bergerac);
- Célimène (Molière: The Misanthrope);
- Berta Tregnier (Dario Niccodemi: The Shadow);
- Nataliya (Turgenev: A Month in the Country).
References
Hungarian lexicon of theatrical art Hungarian Acting Lesson 408 p. Hungarian theatrical lexicon p. 409 p. Miklós Bánffy's evening. Letters. The diary of Váradi Aranka 1944-1952. Published by Ildikó Marosi. Polis publisher, Cluj-Napoca, 2002. Hungarian biographical lexicon
Bibliography
- Blaha Lujza emlékalbum. Szerk. Porzsolt Kálmán. [Bp.], Blaha Lujza Emlékbizottság, [1927].
- Ki-kicsoda? Kortársak lexikona. [Bp.], Béta Irodalmi Rt., [1937].
- Keresztény magyar közéleti almanach I-II. [3. köt. Erdély. 4. köt. Délvidék.]. Fel. szerk. és kiadó Hortobágyi Jenő. Bp., 1940.
- Színészeti lexikon. Szerk. Németh Antal. Bp., Győző Andor, 1930.
- Színház az egész!... Játékos színháztörténeti keleidoszkóp a múlt század színi világából. Összeáll. Füle Péter. [Bp.], Palatinus, 2005.
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Children
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Katalin Bánffy de Losoncz (1924) | 1924 Budapest, Hungary | Hungary | Ted Jelen (1920) |
Siblings