Romanian actress (born 1978)
Anamaria Marinca
Marinca in 2024
Born (1978-04-01 ) 1 April 1978 (age 46) Occupation Actress Years active 2004–present
Anamaria Marinca (born 1 April 1978) is a Romanian actress. She made her screen debut with the Channel 4 film Sex Traffic , for which she won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress . Marinca is also known for her performance in 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days , earning several awards for her performance, and was nominated for the European Film Award for Best Actress , London Film Critics Circle Award for Actress of the Year , Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress and National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress . In 2008, at the 58th Berlin International Film Festival , she was presented the Shooting Stars Award by the European Film Promotion .
Life and career
Marinca was born in Iași , Romania . She grew up with a strong foundation in the arts. Her mother was a classically trained violinist while her father was a theatre professor at the university level. She studied the violin all throughout her childhood when, at around the age of seven, she had announced she wanted to become an actress.
Marinca graduated from the University of Fine Arts, Music and Drama "George Enescu" in Iași.
In 2005, she won three Best Actress Awards (the BAFTA Television Awards , the Royal Television Society Award and the 'Golden Nymph' at 45th Festival de Télévision de Monte Carlo ) for her role in Sex Traffic , a CBC /Channel 4 drama about human trafficking . As well as appearing on stage in Romanian theatre productions, she also acted in Measure for Measure at the National Theatre in London.[citation needed ]
In 2007, she starred in the Romanian film 4 luni, 3 săptămâni și 2 zile (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days ) by Cristian Mungiu , which won the Palme d'Or at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival ,[1] and two other awards (the Cinema Prize of the French National Education System and the FIPRESCI Prize ).[2] [3] She also appeared in the Francis Ford Coppola film Youth Without Youth . In 2008, she appeared as Yasim Anwar in the BBC 5-episode miniseries The Last Enemy . Marinca appeared in the Romanian drama Boogie and Oliver Hirschbiegel 's acclaimed Five Minutes of Heaven . She later had a prominent role in the 2014 film Fury , in which she played a German woman named Irma who meets up with an American tank crew during World War II . She is a regular in the Welsh TV detective series Hinterland .
Filmography
Film
Television
Year
Title
Role
Notes
2004
Sex Traffic
Elena Visinescu
Miniseries; 2 of 2 episodes, Main Role
2006
Hotel Babylon
Natasha
TV Series; 1 episode: (S01 Ep03)
2008
The Last Enemy
Yasim Anwar
Miniseries; 5 of 5 episodes
2009
Sleep with Me
Sylvie
Television film[4]
2010
Holby City
Mother
TV series; 2 episodes: My No. 1 Fan (S13 Ep05) & The Lying Kind (S13 Ep09)
2011
Holby City
Nadiya Tereschenko
TV series; 1 episode: Wise Men (S14 Ep11)
2012
Wallander
Inese
TV series; 1 episode: The Dogs of Riga (S03 Ep01)
2012
Doctor Who
Darla
TV series; 1 episode: Asylum of the Daleks (S07 Ep01)
2013
The Politician's Husband
Dita
Miniseries; 3 of 5 episodes (Parts 1, 2, & 3)
2013–2015
Hinterland
Meg Mathias
TV series; 4 episodes: In the Dead of Night - Part 1 (S02 Ep01), In the Dead of Night - Part 2 (S02 Ep02), Ceredigion - Part 1 (S02 Ep03), & Ceredigion - Part 2 (S02 Ep04)
2014
The Missing
Rini Dalca
TV series; 3 episodes: Gone Fishing (S01 Ep04), Molly (S01 Ep05), & Till Death (S01 Ep08)
2015
River
Ema
Miniseries; 1 of 6 episodes (Part 5)
2016-2018
Mars
Marta Kamen
TV series; 12 episodes, regular
2017
Inspector George Gently
Eve Liddell
TV series; 1 Episode: Gently Liberated (S08 Ep01)
2018
Midsomer Murders
Petra Antonescu
TV Series; 1 episode: Death by Persuasion (S19 Ep05)
2019
Tin Star
Sarah Nickel
TV series; 8 episodes, Season 2 regular
2019-2021
Temple
Suzanna
TV series; 9 episode, recurring role
2022
The Chelsea Detective
Astrid Fischer
TV series; 4 episodes: The Wages of Sin (S01 Ep01), Mrs Romano (S01 Ep02), The Gentle Giant (S01 Ep03), & A Chelsea Education (S01 Ep04)
Stage credits
Radio credits
Title
Year
Role
Production
Notes
Burying the Typewriter
2012
narrator
Sweet Talk Productions
BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week
Angielski
2015
narrator
Sweet Talk Productions
BBC Radio 4 series
Awards and nominations
See also
References
External links
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