Anamaria Marinca bio

Anamaria Marinca, born in Romania, is an actress. Her screen debut came with the Channel 4 film Sex Traffic for which she won the British Academy Television Award for Best actress. She can fluently speak French, German English, and Romanian. Her father is a director of the theater at one of Romania's finest drama schools. She was awarded the Best Female Actor Award for the Year in 2000 at the Gala for Young Actors in Mangalia. In 2008 the European Film Promotion Board recognized her as the first European Shooting Star. She taught at the University of Fine Arts Music and Drama George Enescu for 4 years. bAnamaria Marina is an Romanian actress born from Iasi Romania on 1 April 1978. Anamaria Marinca, an actress with Romanian descent was the first actress to screen in the British-Canadian television film Sex Traffic. She won the British Academy Television Award Best Actress for this role. Her debut film Sex Traffic was awarded an award from the British Academy of Television, in the category of Best Actress. She also won numerous honors for her work in the film 4 Months 3 Weeks 2 Days a Romanian Art Film. She was the lead in Cristian Mugiu's Romanian film "4 luni 3 saptamani e 2 days" (4 months, three weeks and Two Days) which won her the Palme d'Or award at Cannes Film Festival 2007. The film also earned two other awards, The Cinema Prize of French National Education System (FIPRESCI Prize) and the Cinema Prize. In addition, she appeared on the Francis Ford Coppola film Youth Without Youth. In 2008, she played Yasim in the BBC's five-episode The Last Enemy. Marinca has appeared in Oliver Hirschbiegel's Five Minutes of Heaven and the Romanian drama Boogie. In the film Fury (2014) the actress appeared as Irma who was a German woman who played Emma's aunt.