Marina Gera

Marina Gera is an Emmy Award-winning actress. She was born in the city of Szeged in Hungary, and is the first Hungarian actor to win an International Emmy Award. By the time she was two years old, she had already decided that she wanted to be an actress and she stepped on stage for the first time at the age of five. She graduated in acting in 2008 from the prestigious University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest. After university, she joined a newly founded Hungarian theatre company, which had a focus on international co-productions. Marina has worked extensively in Budapest, Parma, Moscow, and Graz as well as performing widely across Europe. Since her primary interest has always been film, she developed her theatre and film career in parallel from the start. She has worked with the multiple Cannes award winner Kornél Mundruczó, starred in György Pálfi's Free Fall (Szabadesés, 2014), which received several awards at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, and appeared in the Hungarian ori