Luminița Iacobescu

She gradueted the Romanian "Theatre and Film Institute 'I. L. Caragiale'"(UNATC) Bucharest in 1966, being thereafter for a short time an actress with the National Theatre ”Marin Sorescu” in Craiova. She started filming already in the very first years of her studies, acting as Tincuta in "Tudor" (1963). She was asked to present the "The Golden Hind Festival" ("'Cerbul de Aur' Festival") in Brasov, where she met the pianist of French singer Barbara, to which she got married, leaving the country for Paris. In France she kept up filming, changing her name into Loumi Jacobesco. Her best known film is may be "Lucien Lacombe" (1974), in which she played the part of Betty Beaulieu, which was nominalized for the Film Festival Cannes. She went on filming in French and German productions, also in some TV serials till 1980, but then her career faded away.