Maria von Tasnady was a Hungarian singer, stage and film actress.
Background
She was born as Mária Tasnádi Fekete and used a variety of other professional names including Maria De Tasnady during her career. Von Tasnady was born to ethnically Hungarian parents in Transylvania when it was still part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Career
Following its transfer to Romania after the First World War, she emigrated to Hungary. Moving to Weimar Germany, she made her film debut in 1932. von Tasnady appeared in twenty five films during her career. As well as Germany, she also worked in her native Hungary and Italy where she appeared in the patriotic war film Bengasi in 1942.
Following the Second World War, she was employed by Radio Free Europe.
Politics
Men Without a Fatherland (1937).