Andrea Osvárt

Andrea Osvárt is a Hungarian actress who came to performing by way of modeling. She was born in Budapest in 1979 and grew up in the Hungarian countryside until 1996, when a second-place finish in the national Look of the Year competition prompted her move to the capital. After a bilingual Italian and Hungarian high school, she spent five years at Eötvös Lóránd University, where she studied Italian literature, culture and language and earned a double degree as an Italian major in 2005. She worked as a model for several years and shot at least 30 television commercials before a small part opposite Robert Redford and Brad Pitt in Spy Game (2001) convinced her to pursue acting. She spent a year at Budapest's Földessy Margit Acting School, then won a place at the two-year International Acting School in Rome, and has lived in Rome since 2003.