Levente Molnár

Levente Molnár (born 10 March 1976, Baia Mare) is a Romanian and Hungarian actor, most notable for playing Abraham in the Academy Award-winning film, Son of Saul.

Biography

From 1990 to 1995, Molnár was trained in acting in Satu Mare. In 1997, he acted at the Gheorgheni-based Figura Studio, and, from 1998 and 2002, was part of the Faculty of arts at the Babeș-Bolyai University, and studied acting at the Theatre Arts Department, in the class of András Hatházi.^[1]

After graduating, Molnár became a member of the Hungarian Theatre of Cluj. In addition to roles in theater, he took part, in 2002 and 2003, movement theater performances based on choreography by Melinda Jakab at the Gheorghe Dima Music Academy. He regularly participates in various international dance, movement and theater arts workshops. He has had several small and big film roles, including Marian Crișan in the Oscar nominated drama Morgen and in the László Nemes-directed multiple award-winning film Son of Saul. Constantly perform in selection (casting) and actor mediation agency work, with 2008 in KoKino created the agency. In 2008, he created the KoKino acting talent agency.

Molnár speaks Hungarian and Romanian fluently, English at an advanced level, and German at an intermediate level.

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