Anamaria Marinca bio

Anamaria Marinca is a Romanian actress. She received the British Academy Television Award Best Actress Award for her role in the Channel 4 film Sex Traffic. Fluent in French, German and English. Her mother was a violinist while her father was a an instructor at one of Romania's most prestigious drama schools. In 2000, the Youth Actor Gala Mangalia awarded her the Best Female Actor Award of 2000. She was honored when the European Film Promotion Board named her a European Shooting Star in 2008. She taught of the University of Fine Arts Music and Drama George Enescu, Iasi for 4 years. bAnamaria Marinca is an Romanian actress who was born on the 01st of April 1978. She was born in Iasi Romania. She is an actress from Romanian heritage, Anamaria Marinca made her debut on the big screen in the British-Canadian TV film Sex Traffic for which she was awarded the British Academy Television Award for the Best Actress. Alongside her impressive performance in her debut film her character will remain in the memory of her performance in the Romanian art film 4 months 3 weeks, 2 days that earned her numerous prizes, including her the European Film Award of Best Actress from the London Film Critics. In 2007, her performance as a character in Cristian Mungiu's Romanian art film, 4 luni 3 weeks si 2 days (4 months 3 weeks and two days), won both the Palme d'Or Award at the Cannes Film Festival 2007 and two more awards. The Cinema Prize for the French National Education System as well as the FIPRESCI Prize. Additionally, she was a part in the film by Francis Ford Coppola Youth Without Youth. In 2008, she played Yasim anwar in BBC mini-series The Last Enemy. Marinca performed as Yasim in Oliver Hirschbiegel's Five Minutes of Heaven, and also on the Romanian Drama Boogie. In the movie Fury (2014) in which she was Irma, a German woman, who played Emma's aunt.