Coco King

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Coco König , also Helena Coco König (born around 1996 in Vienna as Helena König ) is an Austrian - Hungarian actress .

Life

Coco König was born as the daughter of the Austrian entrepreneur Peter König (supervisory board member of Alukönigstahl ) and the Hungarian art historian Barbara Czapolai-König in Vienna, where she also grew up. König first attended the Theresianum in Vienna, later the Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz in Switzerland , in May 2014 she completed her training with the International Baccalaureate . From autumn 2015 she studied politics, history and human rights at New York University , and moved to London for her Masters .

She gained her first acting experience at the Vienna Children's Theater , in 2012 she worked on Wiener Brut: Frenzied Standstill at the Theater Club of the Junge Burg of the Vienna Burgtheater . Luc Bondy was one of her sponsors, and she cast her in various of his productions, including the world premiere of Peter Handke's The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez at the Vienna Akademietheater in May 2012 as part of the Wiener Festwochen . In the spring of 2013 she was seen in the role of Flipote, servant of Madame Pernelle, in Molières Tartuffe at the Akademietheater. In October 2013 she played in Bondy's production of Ödön von Horváth's Don Juan Comes from War with the Berliner Ensemble . At the beginning of 2015 she cast Bondy in the play Iwanow at the Théâtre National de l'Odéon in Paris.

In September 2016 she was seen at the Salzburger Landestheater in Schillers Räuber in the staging of Matthias Hartmann in the role of Amalia, the staging was broadcast on ServusTV . The production was shown in October 2016 as part of the Hamburg Theater Festival at the Schauspielhaus Hamburg and broadcast on NDR , further performances followed at the Vienna Volkstheater .

In 2016, Coco König starred alongside Brian Cox in the British-Hungarian film The Carer . It was directed by the Hungarian director János Edelényi, who discovered her at the Berliner Ensemble. König embodies the Hungarian nursing assistant Dorottya, who takes care of Shakespeare actor Sir Michael Gifford, played by Brian Cox, and who wants to become an actress herself. Gifford develops into Dorottya's mentor. The film premiered at the Palm Springs International Film Festival in California in early 2016, was shown at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in June 2016 and was released in English cinemas in August 2016.

Also in 2016 she starred in the film adaptation of the computer game Assassin's Creed , directed by Justin Kurzel , the film was released in theaters in December 2016.

Her maiden name is Helena, her older brother gave her the nickname Coco.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Burgtheater: Junge Burg: Theater Club Festival: Wiener Brut - Rasender Standstill ( Memento from October 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ a b Austro-Mimin König before performance with Simonischek . Article dated May 21, 2016, accessed September 28, 2016.
  3. ↑ Coco König: The Mimin with the model dimensions . Article dated June 21, 2016, accessed September 28, 2016.
  4. ↑ a b c Coco König: A feeling for quality . Retrieved September 28, 2016.
  5. ^ The Carer ( Memento from September 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved September 28, 2016.
  6. ↑ trendTOP500.at: König Holding AG (Alu König Stahl Group) . Retrieved September 28, 2016.
  7. ^ Spiegel: Personal data - Barbara König . Retrieved September 28, 2016.
  8. ↑ Schlaff and König say yes . Article dated April 11, 2018, accessed September 28, 2016.
  9. ↑ elitemagazin.hu (Hungarian) ( Memento from September 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved September 28, 2016.
  10. ↑ marieclaire.hu (Hungarian) . Article dated April 29, 2014, accessed September 28, 2016.
  11. ↑ nol.hu (Hungarian) . Article dated August 2015, accessed September 28, 2016.
  12. ↑ ZUOZzeitung 2/2014: Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz ( Memento from September 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved September 28, 2016.
  13. ↑ marieclaire.hu (Hungarian) . Article dated April 18, 2015, accessed September 28, 2016.
  14. ↑ a b diepresse.com: Favorite word: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious . Article dated December 23, 2015, accessed September 28, 2016.
  15. ↑ glamouronline.hu (Hungarian) . Article dated March 21, 2016, accessed September 28, 2016.
  16. ↑ Stefanie Weichselbaum: What connects Coco König with Hollywood star Michael Fassbender. In: Kurier.at . September 11, 2019, accessed September 13, 2019 .
  17. ↑ The beautiful days of Aranjuez Dates for the premiere | Handke online . Retrieved September 28, 2016.
  18. ^ Kurier: Review: Molieres Tartuffe in the Akademietheater . Article dated May 29, 2013, accessed September 28, 2016.
  19. ↑ Burgtheater: Molière - Tartuffe ( Memento from September 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  20. ↑ derStandard.at: A somnambulist seducer . Article dated October 16, 2013, accessed September 28, 2016.
  21. ↑ Ivanov | Odéon Théâtre de l'Europe, Paris ( Memento of September 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved September 28, 2016.
  22. ^ ARD: The robbers after Schiller - a television film - NDR FS NDS | programm.ARD.de . Retrieved September 28, 2016.
  23. ^ University of Mozarteum Salzburg - Thomas Bernhard Institute: The robbers . Retrieved September 28, 2016.
  24. ↑ diepresse.com: Schiller's "Räuber" as a great emotional cinema . Article dated September 4, 2016, accessed September 28, 2016.
  25. ↑ The Guardian: The Carer review - Brian Cox twinkles in touching odd-couple drama . Article dated August 4, 2016, accessed September 28, 2016.
  26. ^ Palm Springs International Film Festival: The Carer . Retrieved September 28, 2016.
  27. ^ Edinburgh International Film Festival: The Carer . Retrieved September 28, 2016.
  28. ^ The Carer ( Memento from September 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved September 28, 2016.
  29. ↑ Assassin's Creed (2016): Release Info . Retrieved September 28, 2016.
  30. ↑ Gyönyörű színészcsillag tunik fel a magyar sorozatban. March 9, 2018, accessed January 2, 2020 (Hungarian).
personal data
SURNAME King, Coco
ALTERNATIVE NAMES König, Helena (maiden name); King, Helena Coco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-Hungarian actress
DATE OF BIRTH around 1996
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna