Anamaria Marinca

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Anamaria Marinca, 2007

Anamaria Marinca (born April 1, 1978 in Iași ) is a Romanian actress .

Life

Anamaria Marinca was born in 1978 in Iași, in northeastern Romania, into a family of artists. From the age of six, she emulated her mother, a violinist , who later left Romania and fled to the West. Marinca studied violin until she was eighteen before following in the footsteps of her father, an actor. She studied acting at the George Enescu Art School, where she was tutored by her father. She continued her education at the Teatrul Tineretului, the youth theater of Piatra Neamț . There she later succeeded in switching to the Actiune Teatrala 05 theater group, where she worked with the French theater director Christian Benedetti from the Parisian Studio-Théâtre.

Under his direction, she appeared in Edward Bond's play Children in January 2004 . This was followed by appearances in plays by Alexandre Dumas and August Strindberg as well as more modern material by Heiner Müller , the Romanian premieres of Sarah Kane's works ( Bombed , Greed , 4.48 Psychosis ) or Romanian plays. This enabled Marinca, who also received engagements for several theater festivals in Eastern Europe, to quickly establish herself as a serious stage actress in her home country and later switched to the Bulandra theater company in Bucharest .

While working at the theater, Anamaria Marinca made her debut as an actress on foreign television in 2004 after she was discovered in Bucharest during a casting for Peter Yates ' two-part television play Sex Traffic . In the four-hour drama, which was filmed in Romania and London , she slipped into the role of a Moldovan teenager, like her compatriot Maria Popistașu , who was promised a better professional future in London. In fact, the girls run into human traffickers who kidnap the two sisters across Romania, Serbia , Albania and Italy to Great Britain and force them to pursue prostitution . The Canadian - UK co-production (produced by CBC and Channel 4 ) was successful with critics who rated Yates' study as a depressing and believable look at the dirty reality of the sexual slavery and corruption business. Another focus of the critics was the acting performance of Anamaria Marinca, which was described as "hypnotic". The part of Elena, the older of the two kidnapped sisters, earned her in February 2005, among other things, the British television award BAFTA for best actress. At the award ceremony, she prevailed against such well-known actresses as Brenda Blethyn ( family member ).

After the success of Sex Traffic , Anamaria Marinca moved to London, where she made her London stage debut in the Spring of 2006 at the Lyttelton Theater in the National Theater production of William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure . In the same year she appeared in an episode of the BBC's British television series Hotel Babylon . In 2007, Marinca starred as Yasim in Iain B. MacDonald's dramatic television multipart, The Last Enemy , in which she starred alongside Benedict Cumberbatch , Robert Carlyle , Max Beesley and Geraldine James .

For her cinema debut she returned to her native Romania, where she worked with Cristian Mungiu on 4 luni, 3 săptămâni și 2 zile (German: 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days ). Against the background of the Ceaușescu regime in 1987, the film shows the story of two Romanian students who are confronted with the problem of an unwanted pregnancy.

4 luni, 3 săptămâni și 2 zile was premiered in 2007 at the 60th Cannes Film Festival, where the film was represented in the competition for the Golden Palm . Marinca was able to build on the previous success with the drama, which was rated by German film critics as "stomach-upsetting", "oppressive", "strong" and "great cast". The portrait of Otilia, who helps her fellow student Gabita (played by Laura Vasiliu ) with the illegal abortion of her child, brought her, together with the Russian Galina Vishnevskaya ( Alexandra ) and the South Korean Jeon Do-yeon ( Secret Sunshine ), a favorite status for the Best actress award at the film festival. Although Do-yeon ultimately won this actor's award, Mungius Film was awarded the Golden Palm and made Anamaria Marinca known to a worldwide cinema audience. Months later she received a nomination for the European Film Award and the Shooting Star Award of the Berlinale 2008 for 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days .

Also in 2007 was Francis Ford Coppola's literary adaptation Jugend ohne Jugend , in which Marinca can be seen in a supporting role alongside Tim Roth , Alexandra Maria Lara and Bruno Ganz . In 2008 she appeared in the Romanian film Boogie by Radu Muntean and in Oliver Hirschbiegel's crime drama Five Minutes of Heaven (alongside Liam Neeson and James Nesbitt ). In 2009 she gave preference to Julie Delpy's international cinema production The Countess , a period film about the life of the Hungarian noblewoman and serial killer Erzsébet Báthory (1560–1614). Marinca received renewed praise from critics for her role in Hans-Christian Schmid's award-winning multilingual political drama Sturm (2009), for which she had learned German. At the side of Kerry Fox , she, a rape victim, can be seen as a Bosniakin living in Berlin who, after many scruples, testifies before the International Criminal Court in The Hague against an alleged Serbian war criminal and reveals more than the court would like to hear. The film received an invitation to compete at the 59th Berlin Film Festival .

Anamaria Marinca describes himself as not a carefree person who sees life through pink glasses . According to her own statement, she only embodied cheerful roles in her early theater years. From July to August 2009 she appeared in Christian Benedetti's production of Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis at the Young Vic Theater in London , which was followed by roles in the British television film Sleep with Me (2009) and the Dutch cinema production De viegenierster van Kazbek (2010).

Filmography (selection)

Awards

BAFTA Award

  • 2005: Best Actress for Sex Traffic

European film award

  • 2007 : Nominated for best actress for 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days

Chlotrudis Awards

  • 2009: Nominated for best leading actress for 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days

Gemini Award

  • 2005: Nominated for Best Actress in a Dramatic TV Movie or Series for Sex Traffic

London Critics Circle Film Awards

  • 2008: Nominated as best actress for 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days

Los Angeles Film Critics Association

  • 2007: 2nd place in the category Best Actress for 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days

Festival de Télévision de Monte-Carlo

  • 2005: Golden Nymph for Best Actress in a TV series for Sex Traffic

Royal Television Society

  • 2005: Best Actress for Sex Traffic

Shooting Star

  • 2008: Shooting Star Award

Stockholm Film Festival

  • 2007: Best actress for 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b cf. Emmanuèle Frois: Anamaria Marinca, au-delà des limites de l'espace et du temps . In: Le Figaro, August 28, 2007, Culture ( Memento of September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ cf. Garth Pearce: Compelled to act . In: Sunday Times (London), October 10, 2004, Features, Culture, p. 16
  3. ↑ cf. Romanian news agency review of the Romanian press for 17 Mar 05 . Rompres web site, Bucharest, March 17, 2005
  4. ↑ cf. Alex Strachan: Film about European sex trade grim but worthwhile viewing . In: Edmonton Journal (Alberta), Oct. 8, 2004, What's On, p. E13
  5. ↑ Martin Skegg, Will Hodgkinson, Andrew Mueller: The Guide: Television: Tuesday 19th September: Watch This . In: The Guardian , September 16, 2006, The Guide, p. 77
  6. ↑ Liz Hoggard: Review: Details: Scandal on room service: Fun and shenanigans in BBC's new hotel drama . In: The Observer (England), January 29, 2006, Observer Review Features Pages, p. 3
  7. ↑ Film review of Measure for Measure at thestage.co.uk ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ^ Film review for 4 luni, 3 săptămâni şi 2 zile at faz.net
  9. ↑ cf. Film review for 4 luni, 3 săptămâni şi 2 zile at welt.de
  10. ↑ A qui la Palme d'or? La Croisette devient le boulevard du suspense (PAPER GENERAL) . Agence France Presse , Cannes, May 27, 2007
  11. ^ Festival de Cannes. Chacun cherche sa palm . Le Télégramme, May 27, 2007
  12. ↑ cf. Höbel, Wolfgang: Festival for masochists at Spiegel Online , February 7, 2009 (accessed February 8, 2009)
  13. ↑ cf. Hanns-Georg Rodek : The three-film wonder . In: Die Welt, September 11, 2009, ed. 212, p. 23
personal data
SURNAME Marinca, Anamaria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian actress
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Iași , Romania