Dorka Gryllus

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Dorka Gryllus with Andreas Lust , 2011

Dorka Gryllus (born December 26, 1972 in Budapest ), also Dóra Gryllus in the Hungarian film , is a Hungarian actress .

biography

The daughter of a director studied acting at the Budapest Theater and Film Academy from 1994 to 1998. In 1998 Dorka Gryllus was engaged at the theater in Kaposvár. There she was seen in classical pieces by Carlo Goldoni ( Sommerfrische , 2003), Molière ( Don Juan , 2000) or Alexander Ostrowski ( Der Wald , 2002) as well as in leading musical roles such as My Fair Lady or Cabaret (both 2002) . In 2010 Gryllus played Helga in Leonyid Zorin's Warsaw Melody at the Budapest Pinceszínház Theater.

In parallel to her theater work, she worked in various Hungarian film and television productions from the mid-1990s. After the supporting role of Miss Mendel in Rolf Schübel's award-winning feature film A Song of Love and Death - Gloomy Sunday (1999), she began to shift the focus of her work to German-language film due to a lack of offers in Hungary. Directed by Schübel, she also appeared in the television films Kollaps (2002), in which she played a war refugee , and Time of Desires (2005). In Dieter Wedel's TV film My old friend Fritz (2007) she was seen as the young doctor Cora, who admires a successful surgeon (played by Ulrich Tukur ).

However, Gryllus achieved her breakthrough as a film actress in her Hungarian homeland with Robert Adrian Pejo's drama Hau ab (2005). Originally regarded by the director as "far too beautiful" , she only got the female lead when the intended actress fell ill. In Go away she slipped into the role of Oana, a member of Roma -Gemeinde that has settled on the edge of an apocalyptic dump. The part brought her acting awards at the Russian "Faces of Love" film festival in Sochi , the Festrola film festival in Setúbal, Portugal, and the Hungarian Film Week . In the same year, the Hungarian was honored as a " Shooting Star " at the 55th Berlin Film Festival together with talented actors such as the French Sara Forestier or the German Max Riemelt .

Further appearances in German-language films ( The Bone Man and Soul Kitchen , both 2009) and international cinema (Days of Darkness - Day of Wrath , 2006; Irina Palm , 2007) followed. In 2010 Gryllus worked again with Robert Adrian Pejo for the thriller The Cameraman , which is based on the detective novel of the same name by Thomas Glavinic . In 2011, the role of the doubting Sonja earned her a nomination as best actress for the first ever Austrian Film Prize . In the same year she demonstrated publicly in front of the Budapest parliament against the controversial new Hungarian media law . In 2011 she played the impulsive Volga-German singer Norah in the television film Schicksalsjahre at the side of Maria Furtwängler . In 2015 she played the role of easy-going, cheerful Anabell in the movie Die Kleine und die Böse at the side of Christoph Maria Herbst and Peter Kurth .

In addition, from 2003 Dorka Gryllus was the lead singer of the Berlin band RotFront , which combines American musical styles such as ska and cumbia with polka and klezmer .

Filmography (selection)

Awards

  • 2003: Best actress in the Sterijas theater plays in Novi Sad
  • 2005: Hungarian " Shooting Star " at the Berlinale
  • 2005: Best Actress at the Hungarian Film Week for Hau ab
  • 2005: Best actress at the “Faces of Love” film festival in Sochi for Hau ab
  • 2005: Best actress at the Festrola film festival in Setúbal for Hau ab
  • 2011: nominated for the Austrian Film Award for Best Female Actress for Der Kameramörder

Web links

Commons : Dorka Gryllus  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b cf. “Go to Germany!” - Interview in ZEITmagazin, March 24, 2011, No. 13
  2. ↑ cf. Children named millionaire and dollar . In: Kleine Zeitung , April 20, 2005, p. 59
  3. ↑ cf. Hungary - Thousands demonstrate in Budapest against media law . In: Berliner Morgenpost , January 15, 2011, No. 14, p. 4
  4. ↑ cf. When polka meets hip-hop . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , July 31, 2010, p. 31
personal data
SURNAME Gryllus, Dorka
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gryllusová, Thóra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian actress
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest , Hungary