György Barkó

Barkó was born in Purcăreni, Brașov County on 18 July 1931.^[1] In 1950 he graduated from the Saint George Székely Mikó Reformed College, the same year he successfully auditioned for the Cluj István Szentgyörgyi Theatre Institute. From 1954, he was a member of the Cluj-Napoca State Hungarian Theatre until 1989, when he settled in Hungary.

His wife was Julia Bereczky, actress and director (1928–2007).^[2] Barkó died in Pécs on 30 January 2024, at the age of 92.^[3]

• The 2014 Hilda Gobbi Lifetime Achievement Award from the Hungarian Ministry of National Cultural Heritage^[4]