Ildikó Bánsági (born 19 October 1947) is a Hungarian actress, Kossuth Prize and Jászai Mari Award winner, member of the Halhatatlanok Társulata, full member of the Magyar Művészeti Akadémia. She has appeared in more than 80 films since 1966. She starred in the film Passion, which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.

Career

She graduated from the Budapest Hámán Kató Girls' High School in 1966. Between 1966 and 1968 she worked in the Studio of the National Theatre. From 1968 she attended Zsuzsa Simon's class at the Academy of Theatre and Film Arts, and after graduating in 1972 she was engaged by the Csokonai Theatre in Debrecen. Between 1973 and 1976 as well as between 1987 and 1990 she worked at the József Attila Színház. Between 1976 and 1987 she was an actress at the Vígszínház, then from 1990 to 1993 at the National Theatre, from 1993 to 1996 at the Művész Színház and between 1996 and 1997 at the Thália Színház. In 1996 and 1997 she was a member of the Thália Társulat. From 1997-1998 she was an actress of the Kelemen László Színkör. From 1998 to 2013 she was a member of the Új Színház. From 2013 to 2020, she was again a member of the National Theatre. Since 2014, she has been a full member of the Magyar Művészeti Akadémia.

Personal life

Her parents met in a Soviet prisoner-of-war camp, where her father was a prisoner and her Russian future mother, Natalia Lerasova, was a nurse. After the end of the World War II, they found each other again in Hungary on an adventurous path. Later, her father, Károly Bánsági, became a sailor and her mother became a Russian language teacher in Hungary, and after a while they divorced. Her first husband was film director András Jeles, from whom she divorced. Her second husband was Sándor Gáspár, an actor, and they had a son and a daughter. Their son Gergely Gáspár (or Gergő, 1982) is a drummer. Their daughter, Kata Gáspár (1987), follows her parents' profession. Bánsági has one brother, Károly Bánsági.

Awards

Filmography

Feature films

TV films