Mircea Diaconu

Born in Vlădeşti, Argeş County, he graduated high school in the City in 1967 and Bucharest's Caragiale Academy of Theatrical Arts and Cinematography in 1971. He made his theatrical debut a year before graduating, at the Bulandra Theater in Truman Capote's The Grass Harp. His screen debut came in Dan Piţa's the stone Wedding (1972); he would later appear in the same director's Filip the kind (1975). Other directors with whom he has worked include Alexandru Tatos (red Apple, 1975; the Sequence, in 1982; and the Secret of the secret weapon, 1988), Virgil, Calotescu, (Bulletin of Bucharest, 1982; - and Marriage-again, 1985), Nae Caranfil (Asfalt Tango, 1996; and Filantropica, 2002) and Cătălin Mitulescu (The Way I Spent the End of the World, 2006). In all, he has appeared in more than sixty films. Diaconu worked with Lucian Pintilie both in film (the 1981 De why are the bells ringing, Mitică?) and in the theater: Gogol's The Government Inspector at the Bulandra theatre, and Shakespeare's As You Like It at the Nottara Theater. Liviu Ciulei's hired him, at the Bulandra theatre in 1972, and he remained there for a decade, before moving on to the Nottara. At the Bulandra theatre, he appeared in Twelfth Night and The Tempest, both under Ciulei's direction; and in Marin Sorescu's the Cold, directed by Dan Micu. At the Nottara, he appeared in Alexander Ostrovsky's The Forest, the Last dance, after Liviu Rebreanu's Forest of the Hanged; and Michael S's In the morning. He became the manager of the Nottara Theatre in 2004, working as such until his resignation in 2011.