Award-winning Hungarian actress Irén Psota, who starred in nearly 50 films and appeared in more than 100 stage plays in the post-war period, now has a street named after her in Buda. Psota was born 93 years ago, on 28 March 1929. She died in 2016.
Describing her as their ‘woman next door’, the voters in District II who chose the actress over many other candidates remembered Psota walking her dog Zsuzsi along Csalogány utca near the location of the newly renamed street.
“Irén Psota needs little introduction. In prose, music, comedy and drama, she gave perfect performances across all genres. Grotesque, sometimes standoffish, temperamental, gentle, wild, hard, soft, neat, vibrant – she was the unpredictable and eternal woman. There was a subtle humour hidden in the tragedies, and we could feel the hidden tragedy in her comedy roles…”
