Fekete Zoltán

**Fekete Zoltán** (born 8 December 1967 in Debrecen) is a Hungarian actor and voice actor.

## Career

From his childhood he was attracted to acting, theater. As a primary school student, he joined the Alföld Children's Stage, led by Attila Várhidi, and then the Phoenix Student Stage, where he played for 5 years. Here he learned the basics of acting. With this team, performances were held regularly not only in his hometown, Debrecen, but throughout the country. In the first musical version of the boys on Pál Street, he played Nemecsek, then Kolnay, and Röfi at the Hungarian premiere of The Lord of the Flies, made from Golding's novel. The compilation of Ervin Lázár's fairy tales was also recorded by the Hungarian Television. In addition to school and performances, he spent almost every evening at the Csokonai National Theater in Debrecen, and was soon able to perform on stage. Director László Gali has contributed to several directings.

He graduated from the István Bocskai Grammar School in Hajdúböszörmény and then was admitted to the Acting Training Studio of the Arany János Theater in Budapest. Intensive three years followed, as in addition to performing in theater productions, he also received education in movement, speech, singing, dancing, and acting. His teachers included György Korcsmáros, József Gyabronka, Zsuzsa Szabados, Tivadar Puskás, Zoltán Csankó, Ildikó Móger, Anikó Juhász, Anikó Hajas Kiss. After three years, he passed the Performing Arts Examination at the National Philharmonic and obtained the practical acting (Actor 3) qualification.

He attended the audition of the country's most famous company playing musicals and rock operas at the time, the Rock Theater in Budapest. Here, in addition to the performances, the theater provided continuous training for the artists, its singing teacher was György Szarka, led by masters Anikó Pattantyús and Gábor Bakó, who also became acquainted with classical and jazz ballet. Éva Vályi helped with the sound training, she took private lessons from her. After 3 years of membership in the company, in 1992 he received a temporary actor's qualification (Actor 2) from the Hungarian Chamber of Actors. During a performance, Béla Rehorovszky, a renowned dubbing director, noticed him, and after the initial few-sentence dubbing roles, he soon became one of the busiest Hungarian voices.

He has also proved to be a playwright in the dub, a Hungarian textbook of many series and feature films. At the same time, he also contributed to the preparation of the Hungarian version of storybooks and computer games.

He received the final actor (Actor 1) qualification in 1995 from the Hungarian Actors' Chamber in the musical Chess for shaping the role of Walter de Coursey. Mária Bartha, Erzsi Galambos, Zsuzsa Pálos, Dorottya Géczy and Athina Papadimitriu were present in the committee. Following the closure of the Rock Theater, he toured Western Europe (Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands) with the musical Dorian Gray. As a freelancer, he has starred in several productions, but has spent and continues to spend most of his time in sync.

## Involvement in *Duluth*

In the Hungarian dub of *Duluth*, he voices H. Lee White (twenty-second season only).