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My friends call me Katrin. My parents call me Marika, Hungarian, for 'little Marie'. I'm a daughter of a Hungarian pediatrician father and a Hungarian phlebotomist /now painter mother. I was born in former Czechoslovakia, and raised in Boston, Massachusetts

In third grade I joined my friend's drama class, where her teacher cast me as a sunflower swaying in the wind. The acting bug bit me badly! I loved performing. Fall admission to ballet school kept me 'en pointe' well into my college years. In 1982 my family came to New York, reuniting with my maternal relatives, who left Hungary during the 1956 uprising.

My uncle owned a well known Hungarian restaurant on the Upper East side. We lived with the Klopfers for a few months, then we moved to Boston, where my father obtained work. I began grade school at an all girl private school. To quote Rory Gilmore of the Gilmore Girls: "Wearing a boring uniform, because everyone's there just to learn."

In my senior year of High School I transferred to public school. I was hoping to meet boys, so that I could attend prom. Instead, I found the drama nerds! Cast in the role of Dr. Armstrong in Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians I got to perform - for the first time, in my sixth language - English. Several stage plays and a few local modeling gigs later, I began working in voiceovers. At first, short 'on hold' msgs and podcasts, later I translations and dubbing. I have a BA in Shakespearean drama with two years of film school (old style 8mm and 16mm) under the guidance of Emerson's awesome professor John Gianvito.

With my strong interest in International Relations I continued to study languages. I took some time off college to improve my French abroad. After I earned my BA, I took graduate law courses at Harvard, where I worked in I.T. services. I left for an internship opportunity at an embassy in Washington D.C. where I assisted the First Secretary of Cultural Affairs in Public Relations and the First Secretary to the Ambassador. As a translator, I spent many years working with US Immigration and US Customs Border Patrol under Francisco Baez and Scott Lahey. This was my 'road not taken' - to attend the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in order to become Bond, Jane Bond. I suppose it was never meant to be

At the Embassy Madam secretary offered the opportunity to translate a Czech musical. This reignited my love for the stage and I soon moved to New York where I trained at the Lee Strasberg Institute, while working as a multilingual voiceover artist with agent Jenny Brown of the Abram Artist Agency. When the pandemic hit, I returned home to be with family. I lost two cousins to covid.

Hustling as a freelance voiceover artist and an Adobe certified visual artist I earned some meager floobaroos creating filmmaker pitch decks, story boards, illustrations and voicing various characters in independent productions

I have always loved costume design and filmmaking. I created costumes for myriad stage and film productions, such as Boston's Wilbur theater, Arlington Friends of the Drama, Actor's Workshop, just to name a few. Post pandemic I was blessed with a gig as Executive Producer with Playworld pictures, while working on a my first screenplay. Unfortunately, a car accident derailed life plans. Interestingly, self recovery prompted me to learn holistic medicine, first with my father, then many prominent teachers from all corners of he world. This culminated in a book of healing foods

Twenty plus years of various martial arts training and eleven years in ballet shoes, with weekend horseback riding taught me self discipline. I get up in the morning and do what I needs to be done. I am determined and I have a strong work ethic.

I am vegan. Animals are my passion and compassion is my religion.

"People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."

- Steve Jobs