Jolán Simon (31 May 1885,
Újpest
Újpest (; , ) is the 4th District in Budapest, Hungary. It is located on the left bank of the Danube River. The name Újpest means "New Pest" because the city was formed on the border of the city of Pest, Hungary in 1838. Újpest was a village ...
– 24 September 1938,
Budapest
Budapest is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns of Hungary, most populous city of Hungary. It is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, tenth-largest city in the European Union by popul ...
) was a
Hungarian actor active in the Hungarian
avant-garde
In the arts and literature, the term ''avant-garde'' ( meaning or ) identifies an experimental genre or work of art, and the artist who created it, which usually is aesthetically innovative, whilst initially being ideologically unacceptable ...
during the early 20th century.
Her father died when she was still a child, so she was obliged to start work at an early age.
She was largely self-taught but she did attend
Kálmán Rózsahegyi
Kálmán Rózsahegyi (6 October 1873, in Pest – 27 August 1961) was a Jewish Hungarian actor and teacher.
He descended from a family of theatre actors; his father, Ödön Rózsahegyi performed in the countryside. Kálmán Rózsahegyi also be ...
's drama school.
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Simon, Jolán
1885 births
1938 deaths
1938 suicides
20th-century Hungarian actresses
People from Újpest
Suicides in Hungary