Kata Wéber
Hungarian playwright and actress
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Kata Wéber is a Hungarian screenwriter, playwright and former actress who often works with her husband, Hungarian filmmaker Kornél Mundruczó.
Kata Wéber | |
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Wéber in 2026 | |
| Born | 26 July 1980 Budapest, Hungary |
| Occupations | Screenwriter and actress |
Wéber is most known for wrote White God (2014), Jupiter's Moon (2017) and Pieces of a Woman (2020).[1][2] Her screenplay for Evolution (2021) is loosely based on her family experiences as Holocaust survivors.
Career
Kata Wéber attended the University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest.[3] She began her career as an actress, before moving into playwriting. Already knowing director Kornél Mundruczó, Wéber collaborated with him in theatre.[2] When Mundruczó began working in film, Wéber joined him, writing for White God and Jupiter's Moon.[3][4] However, the pair say that when they collaborate they "leave each other to work. [They] don't disturb each other. [They] have to agree on a topic and on the approach how to do it but then [they] have [their] own territories."[4]
She was invited to write a play for the TR Warszawa in 2017,[5] which became Pieces of a Woman after Mundruczó read her notes about child loss and encouraged her to write about it,[6][7] which she says became like therapy[2] though she had initially resisted turning the "too personal" experience into a play. To write it, she moved to Berlin, deliberately far away from Mundruczó and their daughter.[4] In December 2018 they premiered the play in Warsaw.[2] Mundruczó said Wéber's notes "were the most personal and the most beautiful writing by Kata [he] ever read".[4]
Personal life
Wéber is married to Mundruczó, whom she met when she was an actress at university around the year 2000.[2][5] They have experienced a miscarriage, which inspired the play and film Pieces of a Woman.[6] They did not talk about the loss until making the play. They have a daughter.[4][5] The couple also advocate for the arts in Hungary; after their alma mater was taken over by the government, they wore protest T-shirts at the 77th Venice International Film Festival, where Pieces of a Woman premiered.[8]
She is Jewish and the child of Holocaust survivors.[8][9]
Filmography
Feature film
| Year | Film | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | White God | Kornél Mundruczó | Co-written with Kornél Mundruczó and Viktória Petrányi |
| 2017 | Jupiter's Moon | Co-written with Kornél Mundruczó | |
| 2020 | Pieces of a Woman | ||
| 2021 | Evolution | ||
| 2026 | At the Sea | ||
| TBA | Place to Be | Post-production | |
| The Revolution According to Kamo | Filming |