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Eszter Balint

Highest Rated: 100% Stranger Than Paradise (1984)

Lowest Rated: 50% The Linguini Incident (1992)

Birthday: Jul 7, 1966

Birthplace: Budapest, Hungary

This dark-haired, pixie-faced actress originally from Budapest is best-known for her breakthrough role as the culturally dislocated waif in Jim Jarmusch's off-beat "Stranger Than Paradise" (1984) and for her avant-garde theater work. The daughter of stage director Stefan Balint, she spent much of her youth as a member of The Squat Theater first formed in Budapest in 1969. Squat's members--including Balint and her father--fled Hungary and spent two year in Paris and Rotterdam before heading to America and set up shop in New York. The company became well-known in bohemian circles for such productions as "Pig, Child, Fire!" (1977), "Andy Warhol's Last Love" (1978) and "Mr. Dead and Mrs. Free" (1981), both of which were filmed, and their last show, "Full Moon Killer" (1991).

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Highest rated movies

100% 88% Stranger Than Paradise
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97% 72% Carmine Street Guitars Watchlist 86% 56% A Woman, a Part Watchlist
81% 79% Trees Lounge
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54% 38% The Dead Don't Die Watchlist
52% 55% Shadows and Fog
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50% 76% The Linguini Incident
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Bail Jumper
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Histoires d'Amérique: Food, Family and Philosophy
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
54% 38% The Dead Don't Die Fern (Character) $6.5M 2019
97% 72% Carmine Street Guitars Unknown (Character) $44.0K 2018
86% 56% A Woman, a Part Heidi (Character) $23.6K 2016
81% 79% Trees Lounge Marie (Character),
Original Music
$673.3K 1996
52% 55% Shadows and Fog Woman with Baby (Character) $2.4M 1992
50% 76% The Linguini Incident Vivian (Character) - 1992
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bail Jumper Elaine (Character) - 1990
No Score Yet No Score Yet Histoires d'Amérique: Food, Family and Philosophy Unknown (Character) - 1989
100% 88% Stranger Than Paradise Eva (Character) - 1984

TV

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93% 95% Louie Amia (Guest Star) 2014
71% 89% Miami Vice Dorothy Bain (Guest Star) 1985