Franciska Farkas

Franciska Farkas is actress and drama teacher. She played the lead in the Swiss film Viktoria – A Tale of Grace and Greed (2013) by Men Lareida, starred in several Hungarian films (Csaba M. Kiss’ Brazils, 2016, Attila Szász’s Forever Winter, 2018) and played as supporting actress in HBO Europe series Golden Life (2016, 2017). She is playing in several theater productions. The newest theater play is her own show Makar Csudra according to Maxim Gorki. She’s one of the few Hungarian Roma actresses who reveal and discuss their origin in front of the public. Upon finishing high school, she studied as a social worker. Her parents filed for divorce when she was 13, forcing her to work and help out her mother. She worked as a model, a house keeper in a hotel, a waitress, a bartender and a number of other jobs and could, for lack of means and time, not attend an acting school. Later, she attended drama teaching school and finished successfully in 2017. She was awarded as Best Actress at 14th Hungarian Film Festival Los Angeles (2014) for Viktoria; as Best Actress at 48 hour Film Project (2015) and as Best Supporting Actress by Hungarian Television Professionals (2016) for Golden Life.