Eszter balint biography

Eszter Balint

Hungarian-American singer, songwriter, violinist, and actress (born )

Eszter Balint (born 7 July ) is a Hungarian-American singer, songwriter, violinist, and actress.[1] She made her film debut in Jim Jarmusch's Stranger Than Paradise ().

She went on to received a Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead nomination for Bail Jumper ().

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She also acted in American Stories: Food, Family and Philosophy (), Shadows and Fog (), Trees Lounge (), Downtown 81 (), and The Dead Don't Die (). She has a recurring role as Amia in the fourth season of Louis C.K.'s FX series Louie in

Early life

Eszter Balint was born in Budapest, Hungary, to Marianne Kollar and Stephan Balint.[2] She was living with the avant-gardeSquat Theatre troupe in New York City, founded by her father, when she first met Jean-Michel Basquiat.

They became involved while he was filming Downtown 81.[3] In , Balint was brought into the studio by Basquiat to play violin on the influential hip-hop record "Beat Bop" by Rammellzee and K-Rob.[4]

Career

Balint made her cinematic debut in in directorJim Jarmusch's independent film Stranger Than Paradise.[2] In she made her TV debut in Miami Vice as Dorothy Bain in the episode "Buddies".

She appeared in the film Bail Jumper.[5] Roles in The Linguini Incident (), Woody Allen's Shadows and Fog () and Steve Buscemi's Trees Lounge () followed.[1] Balint's albums, Flicker () and Mud (), both produced by J. D. Foster, were praised by The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Billboard.

In his review of Mud, Jon Pareles writes: "Miss Balint has her own film noir sensibility as a songwriter. She puts arty twists into back-alley Americana but the cleverness is not the point. She slips inside her characters to project their restlessness and longing."[6]

Balint has appeared on recordings by Michael Gira's group Angels of Light, Marc Ribot's group Los Cubanos Postizos, John Lurie's album The Legendary Marvin Pontiac: Greatest Hits, Dayna Kurtz, and with the Swans.

Her cover of the Serge Gainsbourg song "Un Poison Violent, C'est Ca L'amour" appears on the record Great Jewish Music: Serge Gainsbourg on John Zorn's Tzadik label released in [7] She was a featured guest member of Marc Ribot's group Ceramic Dog, touring Europe throughout and is featured on their release Your Turn.[citation needed] In , Balint appeared as Amia, a violin-playing Hungarian love interest for Louis C.K.

on the latter's FX series, Louie.[8] In , Balint released her third album Airless Midnight, produced by J. D. Foster.[9] That same year, Paste magazine premiered Balint's first official music video, "Trouble You Don't See". Josh Jackson wrote: "Paste named Eszter Balint an artist to watch back in after she released her second album Mud.

And while she stepped back from music to focus on parenting soon after, she's delivered on that promise with this year's long-awaited follow-up Airless Midnight, which comes on the heels of a recurring role as a Louis C.K.'s love interest in the most recent season of Louie."[10] Balint played Fern in the film The Dead Don't Die.[11]

Balint's most recent album I Hate Memory! came out in and was called a song cycle that is "a fervid tour of her avant-garde youth."[12]Stew co-wrote man songs and sings too, Syd Straw also joins her on the album.

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Balint has also been in the news for criticizing the rampant commercialization of Basquiat's work and image, telling The New York Post, “This kind of flattening and fetishizing takes people further away from the art.” [14]

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

References

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  13. ^"Album Premiere: Eszter Balint". PopMatters.

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  17. ^"Video Premiere: Eszter Balint - "Trouble You Don't See"". . Retrieved
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    Eszter balint biography Sign in. Retrieved May 10, Trailer And while she stepped back from music to focus on parenting soon after, she's delivered on that promise with this year's long-awaited follow-up Airless Midnight, which comes on the heels of a recurring role as a Louis C.

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  19. ^Jay Ruttenberg (January 13, ). "Eszter Balint: I Hate Memory!". The New Yorker.
  20. ^Tyler Nesler (June 30, ). "Eszter Balint Interview About I Hate Memory!".

    Eszter Balint | Bio | Musician | Actress | Film and TV: New York Post. Read Edit View history. Wonderland USA Short. Balint mostly concentrated on her theater work and music career thereafter, and her film appearances have been infrequent.

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  21. ^Michael Kaplan (November 15, ). "Basquiat friends slam his sisters for putting his art on welcome mats, booze". New York Post.
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