Géza Röhrig (, ; born 11 May 1967) is a Hungarian actor and poet. He is best known for his role in the 2015 film Son of Saul, which won the Grand Prix at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Life and career
Géza Röhrig was born in Budapest, Hungary. His mother left the family after he was born, and his father died when he was four, and Röhrig spent his childhood in foster care. From the age of 12 he was raised by a Jewish family. In the 1980s, he was the frontman of an underground music band called Huckleberry (also known as HuckRebelly), whose concerts were often interrupted by the communist authorities. At university he studied Hungarian and Polish, and after a visit to Auschwitz during a study tour in Poland, he decided to become an Orthodox Jew in Brooklyn, United States. He portrayed poet Attila József in a film by József Madaras. He studied filmmaking under István Szabó.
He published two collections of poems on the theme of the Shoah, ("Book of Incineration", 1995) and ("Captivity", 1997). He graduated from the Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest with a degree in filmmaking. Since 2000, he has lived in The Bronx borough of New York City,Antony Lane, "Deep and Dark," The New Yorker, December 21, 2015: 227 where he received a degree from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and has been a kindergarten teacher at Hannah Senesh Community Day School in Brooklyn. He is married, and has four children. He has published many collections of poetry.
Work Prose
Poetry
Filmography Film Year Title Role Notes 2015 Son of Saul Saul 2018 To Dust Shmuel The ChaperoneJoseph 2019 Muse Luca Bad Art Gene 2020 Resistance Georges Loinger Undergods Z 2023 Five and a Half Love Stories in a Vilnius Apartment Philip 2025 Desert Warrior Al Hamerz Marty Supreme Bela Kletzki TBA The Way of the Wind Jesus Christ Post-production YetiChris Pine Faces the Alps’ Most Terrifying Predator in Yeti Filming
Television 1989: Közjáték, episode Mrożek: Levélkék (director) 1989: Eszmélet by József Madaras, episodes 1 and 2: Attila József 1990: Armelle by Jacek Lenczowski: Piotr
Awards and nominations Award Year Category Nominated work Result Actor Awards 2026 Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Marty Supreme
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