Zoltan Latinovits was born on 9 September, 1931 as he explained it, in his grandfather, Károly Gundel's restaurant , "just above the table of uncle Gyula Krúdy." His father, Oszkár Latinovits was a landowner, his mother was Katalin Gundel, scion of the legendary entertainer family. Zoltan Latinovits was a Jászai Mari and Kossuth Prize-winning Hungarian actor. One of the most popular actors of the nation , many of them call him such: a the King of Actors.

He graduated from high school in 1949 in Budapest, where he played in the drama György Dózsa by György Sarkozi. He only played a small part. The said his words wit his back to the audience, nervous, stuttering. After the show, Gizi Bajor who was a guest went to find him and said the following words to inspire Latinovits: You must become an actor! It had not occurred to Latinovits or anyone else before. Until 1952 due to " certain trend of the era" he was an apprentice carpenter and bridge builder worker, then, in 1956, he obtained a degree in architecture. He constantly recited poems during his college years, was getting to know actor's craft, and as later admitted it, was rather difficult for him. In 1956, he signed a contract with the Debrecen Theatre as an assistant actor. There he learned the craft of actors with excellent actors.

Ruttkai Eve signed a contract with the National Theatre in 1948 where he could show her talent among the wonderful actors Gizi Bajor, Arthur Somlay, Márton Rátkai, Margit Ladomerszky. She and the fashionable actor Gábor Miklós fell in love and married in 1953, they had a daughter. At the end of the fifties, Miklós Gábor and Éva Ruttkai embodied the dream couple in Hungary.

Their marriage came to an end due to her legendary love affair with Zoltán Latinovits, which began in 1960 during the première of Pavel Kohout's play A Great Love Like That< / em > in Miskolc.