Luca Márkus receives the Éva Ruttkai memorial ring

2022. 12. 28.

In 2022, Luca Márkus won the Éva Ruttkai Memorial Ring for her performances in Incognito and With a Stitch in Time, based on a secret ballot of the Vígszínház company. The prize can be awarded to any artist of the theatre, even more than once, for outstanding artistic performance during the calendar year.

The Éva Ruttkai Memorial Ring was founded in 1986 by the actress's daughter, Júlia Gábor, in memory of her mother, the Kossuth Prize-winning actress and legendary artist of the Vígszínház. The award is presented to the actor who has given the most outstanding artistic performance at the Vígszínház in the given year. This award has a special status because it is not given by a jury, but is voted for by each member of the company, in secret, for the colleague they consider to be the best. This year, the cast of the Vígszínház has awarded the ring to Luca Márkus for her performances in Incognito and Seggel szeggel. The award was presented by Júlia Gábor and her husband, theatre historian Gábor Szigethy, on 27 December after the performance of The Visit of the Old Lady at the Vígszínház.

Luca Márkus was born in Debrecen and studied at the University of Theatre and Film Arts between 2015-2020 in the class of László Marton, Géza D. Hegedűs and Péter Forgács. She spent her theatre internship at the Vígszínház, where she has been a company member since 2020.

As an outstanding talent of her age group, she has become a leading actress at the Vígszínház in just a few years thanks to her excellent acting skills and diligence. Her great talent for character portrayal is evident in the role of Susan in The Emperor of the West and in The Father she portrays an elderly male nurse with a flickering delicacy. Her superb singing voice, powerful stage presence and sensitive acting in The Great Gatsby, and her charm and humour as the Sinner of the Attic, enchant audiences. In The Seagull, she is Nyina, and she portrays a determined, self-conscious, unpredictable, sassy, free, yet infinitely fragile girl. In one of Pesti Theatre's most recent productions, Incognito, she is a virtuoso in playing multiple characters, and in Nail the Nail she is poignant as the vulnerable yet determined Isabella, vulnerable to power and male domination.

In the chamber production of The Ordinary Girls Cry Silently, which premieres at the House Stage in 2021, she plays a teenage girl forced to grow up in a cruel world. In 2021, she was awarded the Irén Varsányi Memorial Ring for her mature performance, which reveals a deep understanding of human nature.

In recent years, she has appeared in several series and films, including such successful and popular productions as Only Theatre and Nothing Else, Love at the Age of Limits, János Tóth, The Adventure of a Blossom, The Teacher, Blockade and The Informer.

In 1987, Géza Tordy was the first person to receive the Éva Ruttkai memorial ring, signed by the actress. Other honorees are Enikő Eszenyi, Iván Darvas, Vera Pap, László Gálffi, Attila Kaszás, Sándor Lukács, Nóra Tábori, Márta Jánoskúti, Erzsébet Kútvölgyi, Éva Igó, Enikő Börcsök, Róbert Alföldi, István Hajdu, Gábor Csőre, Gábor Harkányi, Róbert Alföldi, István Hajdu, Gábor Csőre, Endre Harkányi, Ádám Rajhona, Lídia Danis, Attila Epres, Gábor Reviczky, Barbara Hegyi, Vera Venczel, Éva Bata, Béla Fesztbaum, Kata Péter, József Wunderlich, József Wunderlich, József Jnr. Attila Vidnyánszky, Csenge Szilágyi, András Kern and Zoltán Gyöngyösi.