Levente Király

actor

Budapest, 6 March 1937 – Deszk, 30 July 2024

Full member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts (2013–2024)

After gaining experience in a secondary-school student drama group, Levente Király applied to the Academy of Theatre and Film Arts (now: University of Theatre and Film Arts) in 1955. By his own account, initially, he had not intended to apply to the acting programme at all; he merely accompanied a friend to the entrance examination.

Kossuth Prize

The highest Hungarian state decoration for the cultivation and preservation of Hungarian culture.

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1986

governmental award

Meritorious Artist of the Hungarian People’s Republic

State award for artists who have created outstanding artistic values over a prolonged period in Hungarian national culture and artistic fields (theatre, music, dance, circus, film, visual, photography, applied arts), and who already hold an artistic award granted by the minister responsible for culture. The recipient is entitled to the title “Meritorious Artist of Hungary” (short: “Meritorious Artist”).

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1967

governmental award

Jászai Mari Award

The highest Hungarian state recognition in dramatic arts.

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