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Valeria Seciu


  • Actress
  • Born: 01.08.1939 in Bucharest
  • Died: 06.09.2022 in București

Graduate of the Institute of Theatre and Film "I.L.Caragiale" (year 1964, class Octavian Cotescu). She makes her debut on the National Theater’s stage in Bucharest in the part of Veronica Micle from the play “Eminescu” directed by Sica Alexandrescu. Starting 1978 she will be part of the Little Theatre’s team. In 1990 she puts the basis of the Levant Theatre. Theatre offers her the most important parts in her career hence the greatest satisfactions. Blonahova in “The Barbarians”, Margareta in “The Master and Margareta”, Margueritte Gautier in “Camille”,  are only  a few of her unforgettable parts. Even if she is often chosen for film parts, film has much less to offer her than theatre and no part played by her in film measures her sensitivity and internal vibration.
“Her creations belong both to earth and abyss, her heroines scan some of the most delicate and sinuous psychological zones, she speaks a lot through her silences and knows how to express a lot without words being needed, while she would have so much to say. The woman who knows how to accept life’s full blows - this is the feminine prototype  that becomes her talent , that of an actress that combines delicacy with tragism, tenderness with drama” (Cornel Cristian, Magazin Estival Cinema, 1984)
“She belongs to the actors cathegory that are mastered by the need of perfection.She is not a person of half measures whether we speak of feelings, tone etc.She wants the most of what she can offer.And she offers a lot, much more than film ever proposed her. Her soul overflow rarely finds matchging parts. But, nonetheless, she gives herself  entirely as  only great actors do” (Nicu Stan, Cinema, February, 1986).

 
 
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Known for:

2013

2013

2006

1979

Festivals / Awards

  • 1978
ACIN On the Eve of Silence Best Actress
  • 1981
Costineşti Good Evening, Irina Best Actress
  • 2013
UCIN Roxanne Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Filmography

Actress

Livada de vişini

Ranevskaia, Liubov Andreevna

2016

Das Spektrum Europas

Mrs Popescu

2013

The Walk

The Lady

2013

Roxanne

Tavi's Mother

2013

I’m an Old Communist Hag

Mrs. Stroescu

2012

Of Snails and Men

Tatiana

2012

Aurora

Viorel's Mother

2010

Storm in the Pacific

Ana

1985

Adela

Raluca Mureşan

1984

I Want to Know what I Have Wings for

Laura Ionescu

1983

Love and Revolution

Terenţia Rudeanu

1983

Love above All

Emila's Mother

1982

The Escapade

Lidia

1982

Fox Hunting

Gena

1980

Good Evening, Irina

Irina

1980

Lumini și umbre (tv series)

1979

Ion - The Curse of Love

Savista

1979

The Hope

Maria

1979

On the Eve of Silence

Ana

1978

The Moment

Woman from the village

1978

River which Climbs the Mountains

Mother

1977

The Instance Adjourns the Sentence

Anca Moga

1976

The Midnight House

Ina

1975

The Paratroopers

Nora

1972

The Siege

The unknown woman

1971

The Unfinished House

Lia

1964