Sándor Csikos was elected on Thursday to replace Miklós Benedek, who died on January 9, by the Actors of the Nation. The title of Artist of the Nation can be awarded to the artist chosen by the holders of the title for outstanding activities in the field of Hungarian theater, the development and popularization of national theater, the interpretation of national literature and the preservation of the Hungarian language. A maximum of twelve people can hold the title at the same time, and if one of them dies, the other holders of the title decide who can take the vacant place.
“Sándor Csikos, Kossuth and Jászai Mari prize-winning actor, director, theater director, worthy and excellent artist, awarded with the title of Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary, Kazinczy Prize-winning Hungarian actor, was born in Karcag.
After the Academy of Theater and Film Arts, he was an artist at the National Theater in Miskolc from 1965 to 1969, a member of the Literary Theater from 1962 to 1972, the Csokonai Theater in Debrecen from 1972, the Kisfaludy Theater in Győr from 1974 to 1975, and then an artist from 1975 to 1984 he continued his career again at the Csokonai Theatre.
After that, he joined the company of the Móricz Zsigmond Theater in Nyíregyház, where he was the director between 1990 and 1993. Since 1993, he has been a member of the Csokonai Theater company again. During his more than five-decade career, he played more than two hundred roles, and is one of the Hungarian actors who appeared on stage the most times as Lucifer in the tragedy of man.” – reads the National Theatre in its entry.
