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Iván Kamarás
Ivan Kamaras photographed by Steindl Máté in 2019
Born	(1972-12-22) 22 December 1972 (age 51) Pécs, Hungary
Nationality	Hungarian
Occupation	Actor
Notable work	Agent Steel in Hellboy II: The Golden Army Tibor Orban in Silent Witness
Height	6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Website	http://www.ivankamaras.com

Ivan Kamaras (born 22 December 1972) is a Hungarian actor who became first known worldwide for his role as Agent Steel in the 2008 superhero fantasy thriller Hellboy II: The Golden Army, directed by Guillermo del Toro. Kamaras voices the title character in the 2018 Hungarian animated feature Ruben Brandt, Collector.

Personal life

Kamarás was born and raised in Pécs, Hungary. His mother, Teodóra Uhrik, and his stepfather, Pál Lovas, were both ballet dancers, and much of his childhood was spent in theatres. When he was seven, the family acquired a recording of the 1980 BBC production of Hamlet starring Derek Jacobi as Hamlet and Patrick Stewart as Claudius. Kamarás fell in love with the role of Hamlet and within two or three years had learned Hamlet's monologues from the play by heart. He was in elementary school when he became a regular member of an amateur acting company and by the time he was in high school he played his first serious role in a performance of the Pecs Chamber Theater. From 1991 to 1995, he studied at the Academy of Theatre and Film in Budapest.

HAfter gaining experience with major theatrical companies and alternative theater groups, he emerged as one of Hungary's prominent actors. Despite continuing stage performances at various theaters until 2009, a growing passion for film led him to shift his focus. Seeking international exposure, he decided to relocate to the United States. Initially delving into directing, he later enrolled in filmmaking and acting courses, honing his skills for several years. Drawing from his combined Hungarian and American education and practical experience, he now imparts his knowledge by teaching acting classes at the inaugural accredited Hungarian school dedicated to training movie actors, which opened its doors to students in the fall of 2012.

His hobbies include sports and fitness training. He likes to promote charitable causes. Since 2014 he has been an Ambassador for the "Keznyom" campaign of SOS Children's Villages in Hungary.

Career

Theatre

From 1995 until 1997 he was a member of the Budapest Chamber Theatre, between 1997 and 2008 a member of the Comedy Theatre of Budapest. He won widespread admiration for his first role playing Othello at the age of 23 in 1995. For the Budapest Chamber Theatre he has also starred as Horst in Martin Sherman’s Bent (1996), Treplyov in Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull (1997), Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire in 1999 (a role he had previously played for the National Theatre of Győr in 1997), Romeo in Romeo and Juliet (1998), and James Tyrone Jr in A Moon for the Misbegotten by Eugene O’Neill (2003).

For the Comedy Theatre of Budapest he has played Wayne in Ben Elton’s Popcorn (1998), Alyosha in an adaptation of Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov (1999), Edmund in King Lear (2001), Su Fu in Brecht’s The Good Person of Szechwan (2001), Raskolnikov in an adaptation of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment (2001), Eugenio in The Coffee House by Carlo Goldoni (2005), Benedict in Much Ado About Nothing (2007), and Trofimov and Pjotr Sergeyevich in The Cherry Orchard (2007).

He has also played Julien Sorel in an adaptation of The Red and the Black by Stendhal for Gyor National Theatre (1995), Brick in Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2000) for the Pest Theatre, Antony in Antony and Cleopatra (2002) for the Pest Theatre, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester in Friedrich Schiller’s Mary Stuart (2006) for the Pest Theatre, Christian in Festen for the Pest Theatre (2006), Jamie in Jason Robert Brown’s one-act musical two-hander The Last Five Years for the Palace of the Arts (2007), a role he debuted in Hungary, and Ruy Blas in the Szeged National Theatre production of Victor Hugo's Ruy Blas (2009).

Film

Aside from his role as Agent Steel in Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Kamarás has had an extensive career in Hungarian cinema. Notable roles have included the hit bedroom farce Out of Order (1997), in which he played a jealous boxer in pursuit of his errant girlfriend and her politician lover, the thriller Európa expressz (1999), in which he played Jimmy, a man who becomes caught up in events when the train he is in is hijacked by a Russian mafia boss, and more recently the cult comedy GlassTiger 3 (2010), in which he played Ferenc Csopkai, a rich lawyer who pursues the bumbling heroes after they steal his car and with it a huge sum in cash. In 2013 Kamarás starred in the film Outpost: Rise of the Spetsnaz.

Television

In addition to Silent Witness – in which his character, detective Tibor Orban, helped to uncover a baby-farming racket in Budapest while trying to track down series regular, forensic pathologist Dr Harry Cunningham – Kamarás has played Pipin, the son of Charlemagne, in the miniseries Charlemagne (1993); Louis II, King of Hungary, in the costume drama Mohacs (1995); Ivan, a man who becomes obsessed on his wedding day with his newly met twin sister in Alice and the Seven Wolves (2009); and the machiavellian nightclub owner and antihero Evil in the 10-part drama First Generation (2001). He was also the creative force behind Mobile Poem, a series of poetry readings done by notable Hungarian actors and filmed on mobile phone, which screened on the Hungarian TV channel MTV1 in 2009. In January 2011, he played a Hungarian detective, Tibor Orban, in Bloodlines, the fourth episode in the 14th series of the BBC crime drama Silent Witness. In 2014 he played the role of Rasputin in the two-part History Channel miniseries Houdini.

Music

He has released two solo pop albums – Bombajó (2000), and Revelation (2005) – and been a contributor to two others, So We Sing (2003) and Actor Songs (2009).

Directing

Kamarás has shot an experimental film on his mobile phone, Sigh, which was inspired by the Yukio Mishima drama Aoi no Ue and which screened at the Hungarian Film Festival in 2005 and the Moziünnep film festival in 2006. He undertook a course in directing at UCLA in 2009 and in the same year directed a production of Tchaikovsky’s opera Eugene Onegin at Keszthely Castle, Hungary.

Awards

• Szinikritikusok critics’ award (1996) for Othello,
• Andor Ajtay memorial award (2000), given annually to the best actor and actress in the Comedy Theatre of Budapest,
• Hegedűs Gyula award (2000) for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,
• Súgó Csiga díj (2003) a prize for most popular actor voted for by audiences,
• Mari Jászai Award (2006) a state award given in recognition for acting excellence, is the premier award of national dramatic artists,
• VII. National Theatre Festival of Pécs (2007) for best male actor of the year award for Festen,
• Gold Medallion Award (2012) actor of the year audience award

Theatrical roles

Number of his registered theatrical presentations in the Hungarian Theatre Database : 56.

Theatre Directing

• 9 marc 2009, Keszthely, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin (opera) (directed by: Ivan Kamaras)

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996	Stationary		Short
1996	Ezüstnitrát		--
1996	Bolse vita	Árva
1996	A bűvész		Short
1997	A miniszter félrelép	Marosi Róbert
1998	Európa expressz	Jimmy
1999	A Morel fiú	Géza	Short
2000	Fehér alsó
2001	A csodálatos mandarin	Tramp	Short
2001	Vademberek	István
2002	Szerelem utolsó vérig	Dandy
2002	Szent Iván napja	Székely Iván
2002	Somlói galuska		short
2003	Libiomfi	színész a válogatáson
2005	Sóhajok		iPhonefilm 50 min Actor, Director, Cinematographer, Producer
2005	Le a fejjel!	Kozár, a bérgyilkos
2006	Semleges hely	Man	short
2008	Para	Viktor
2008	Hellboy II: The Golden Army	Agent Steel
2009	Team Building	Sanyi
2010	Igazából apa	Bálint
2010	Sudden Death!	Thug
2010	Üvegtigris 3.	Dr. Csopkai Ferenc
2010	A tüke fenomén	Himself	documentary
2011	A Love Affair of Sorts	Boris
2012	Blood and High Heels	Ivan Milkov	short
2012	Aglaja	Milo
2012	Rabbi vagy miazisten	Tibi	Short
2012	The Mark	Phillyp Turk
2013	The Mark: Redemption	Phillyp Turk
2013	A Good Day to Die Hard	G-Wagon Driver
2013	100 Degrees Below Zero	Dr. Goldschein
2013	The Developer	the Jumpsuit Guy	Short
2013	World War Z	Gambling Soldier
2014	Üzenet	Nyurga	Short
2013	Outpost: Rise of the Spetsnaz	Fyodor
2014	Dumapárbaj	Kész átverés show műsorvezető
2014	Megdönteni Hajnal Tímeát	Róbert
2014	Apám megmutatja	Miklós	Short
2014	A győztes	Kovács István (in 1980)	short
2015	Spy	Club Emcee
2015	Lámpagyújtogatók	Himself
2016	Cop Mortem	John Holdon
2017	High & Outside - a baseball noir	Hans
2017	Dead End	The Hungarian
2018	The Big Shot (A Nagy Dobás)	Misi	short

Television

Video games

Sync

Selection from the Hungarian Online Sync Database

References

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2. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0411477 www.imdb.com entry for Hellboy II: The Golden Army. Accessed 21 February 2011.
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9. www.origo.hu Interview with Kamaras on 17 June 2005. Accessed 24 February 2011.
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19. www.terasz.hu "Magnified shadow", by Andrea Stuber, interview with Kamaras in which he discusses playing Stanley, Brick, Antony in Antony and Cleopatra and Othello. Accessed 24 February 2011.
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66. "Kamarás Iván on Instagram: "Az a megtszteltetés ért, hogy a világ egyik legnagyobb videó játékában, a Call of Duty legújabb részében, a Modern Warfare 2-ban, én képviselhetem Magyarországot. Takács Fender szerepében az én hangomon szólal meg, pár autentikus, szép magyar káromkodás...😂💪#lehullalepel @callofduty #callofduty @microsoft @microsofthu #fender 📸 @chikan_erika_photography 👏"". Instagram. Retrieved 11 December 2022.
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External links

• Official website
• Ivan Kamaras at IMDb
• Blood and High Heels - HD version on YouTube
• Kamaras reciting the poem maradni, maradni by Adám Nádasdy on YouTube
• BBC showreel for Silent Witness on YouTube
• Video giving extracts from Kamaras's work in Hungarian cinema on YouTube
• Performance of Much Ado About Nothing starring Kamaras as Benedict (in Hungarian) on YouTube
• Performance of Othello starring Kamaras as Othello staged in 1995 (in Hungarian) on YouTube
• Further images annakirschner.com

• 1972 births
• Living people
• Hungarian male stage actors
• Hungarian male film actors
• Hungarian male television actors