Eszter Balint

Eszter Balint sits exactly in the sort of artist I gravitate toward, someone who refuses to be one thing. Born in Budapest in 1966, Hungarian-American, she's a singer, songwriter, violinist and actress all at once. I love that her film debut came in Jim Jarmusch's Stranger Than Paradise, a touchstone of American independent cinema, and that she later earned an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Bail Jumper. That tells me she was taken seriously as an actor, not just a musician moonlighting. The fact that she still keeps an official site suggests an artist who has stayed in control of her own work, which I admire.

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Name (English)

Eszter Balint

Name (Japanese)

エスター・バリント

Reading

えすたー・ばりんと

Born

July 7, 1966 (age 60)

Origin

Budapest, Hungary

Occupation

singer / film actor / actor / violinist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Horse

• Official sitehttps://www.eszterbalint.com
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eszter%20Balint
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%90%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q457439

Tags

• singer
• film actor
• actor

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.