Elvira Deatcu

Elvira Deatcu studied acting with Mircea Albulescu, Florin Zamfirescu, Adrian Pintea, and Olga Tudorache at the Institute of Theatrical and Cinematic Arts, Bucharest.

Since 1995, she has been an actress in the company of the Odeon Theatre, Bucharest. Her most memorable rôles have been in The Cherry Orchard, The Alchemist, and The Magpies, in which her professionalism and talent shone.

She made her film début in the part of Amalia in Tears of Love, in which she appeared alongside Dan Bordeianu, an actor she met while still at university. She went on to be cast in numerous soap operas produced by Acasă TV. A face familiar to the general public, she has been cast in productions including Wager with Life (2011), Vlad (2019), and Spy/Master (2023).

In 2004, the President of Romania bestowed on actress Elvira Deatcu the Order of Cultural Merit to the rank of Chevalier ‘in token of esteem for her career as a whole and for the dedication and acting talent she has placed in service of the theatrical and performing arts.’

In 2021, she was nominated for the Union of Romanian Filmmakers Award for Female Supporting Rôle and received the Gopo Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Rôle for the film 5 Minutes, directed by Dan Chișu.