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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1973-01-19

Place of Birth

Kaushany, Moldavian SSR, USSR [now Causeni, Moldova]

Tania Popa

Biography

Tania Popa (born January 19, 1973, in Căușeni, Moldova) is a Romanian film and theatre actress who graduated from the I.L. Caragiale National University of Theatre and Film Arts in Bucharest in 1994, studying under professor Grigore Gonţa. She has been a permanent ensemble member of the National Theatre "I.L. Caragiale" in Bucharest since her 1994 debut as Ondine in Jean Giraudoux's Ondine, and has since performed in a wide range of productions including A Letter (Caragiale, 2003), Heart of a Dog (after Bulgakov, 2005), Orchestra Titanic (2018), and the one-woman show The Girl from the Rainbow (2012, for which she won Best Actress at both the International Studio Theatre Festival in Pitești and the National Comedy Festival in Galați). She also directed Figuranta by Andreas Petrescu at the National Theatre in 2019. She won the UCIN Award for Best Actress in 1996 and received the Order of Cultural Merit (2nd class) in 2004. Her most notable film credits include the Night Receptionist in 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007, directed by Cristian Mungiu, Palme d'Or winner), Mihaela in Occident (2002, also directed by Mungiu), Camelia in Tales from the Golden Age (2009), a Female Parishioner in Beyond the Hills (2012, also directed by Mungiu), Luminița Angheliu in Child's Pose (2013, directed by Calin Peter Netzer), Aurelia in I Am An Old Communist Hag (2013), Mama Ana in Ana, My Love (2017, also directed by Netzer), Doina in America, Here We Come (2014), Nela in Matei, Child Miner (2013), and Valentina Benkova in The Marksman (2005, with Wesley Snipes). On television she appeared as Elena Calinescu in Tanti Florica (2012) and Carmen in Atletico Textila (2024–2025, 14 episodes), and competed on Your Face Sounds Familiar (Season 8, 2015).

Known for

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

Two college roommates have 24 hours to make the ultimate choice as they finalize arrangements for a black market abortion.

Tales from the Golden Age

Tales from the Golden Age

Composed of six unconventional vignettes, each one dealing with the late communist period in Romania, a narrative is told through its urban myths from the perspective of ordinary people. The title refers to the alluded "Golden Age" of the last 15 years of Ceaușescu's regime.

Ana, My Love

Ana, My Love

Toma and Ana meet as students in the literature faculty, and quickly fall in love. But, because of Ana's mental illness, their relationship slowly collapses.

The Detonator

The Detonator

Sonni Griffith, a top US Secret Agent must protect a witness as he crosses Europe.

I'm a Celebrity: Get Me Out of Here!

I'm a Celebrity: Get Me Out of Here!

21 days, 13 celebrities and two hosts prepared to face the jungle or to yell "Get me out of here!"

Buzz House: The Movie

Buzz House: The Movie

The next season of Buzz House is the most ambitious yet. Selly has prepared many surprises for the participants: secret competitors, an isolated villa in the forest that can only be reached by boat and a costumed employee, set to scare them, to have a thrilling exit. Everything is planned in detail. What's not in the plan, though, is for a real psychopath to show up, kill the "scary" employee, take his costume and terrorize our competitors for real. Do rivalries still matter when you're being run over with an axe? Do friendships still matter when you have to risk your life for them? Who will manage to escape and how?

Love Bus: Five Love Stories from Bucharest

Love Bus: Five Love Stories from Bucharest

Love Bus is an omnibus film composed of five different episodes, each of them taking place in a different district of Bucharest, Romania.

Child's Pose

Child's Pose

Child's Pose is a contemporary drama focusing on the relationship between a mother and her 32-year-old son. After the accidental killing of a boy in a car crash, the mother tries to prevent her son being charged for the death, and she refuses to accept that her son is a grown-up man.

Beyond the Hills

Beyond the Hills

Alina returns to Romania from Germany, hoping to bring Voichita—the only person in the world she loves and was loved by—back with her. But Voichita has found God, and God is the hardest lover of all to best.

What a Happy World

What a Happy World

The relationship between a younger painter and an older woman.

Terente: The King of Swamps

Terente: The King of Swamps

The story takes place early in the 20th century in Eastern Romania, where a famous outlaw lived kind of a Clyde with many Bonnies legend in the landscape of the Danube Delta.

Bed of Procust

Bed of Procust

The poet and journalist Ladima commits suicide and his friend, Fred Vasilescu, tries to find out the reasons of those actions. In his search he discovers a mysterious Miss T.

Matei Child Miner

Matei Child Miner

Matei lives with his grandfather in Romania. His parents have gone to work in Italy. After arguing with his grandfather, he leaves. A poignant, beautifully shot film on the illusions and disillusionments of childhood.

Everyday God Kisses Us on the Mouth

Everyday God Kisses Us on the Mouth

Dumitru is a two-faceted killer: he kills animals and called a hunter, and kills people, and branded as an assassin. Dumitru is just out of prison, for the first time since the fall of communism. Even on the train taking him home, he is planning to return to his past practices as he is involved in a blood thirsty card game with some gypsies. The game turns out badly, and one of those making up the table is killed. He starts on a flight again, this time, bound for his home town, where he finds his wife pregnant by his own brother. Blind with a thirst for vengeance, Dumitru commits one more murder that unleashes a sequence of new crimes and makes him into a wanted serial killer. Life becomes a burden that is too heavy for Dumitru who decides to abbreviate his existence. However, he soon discovers he does not hold all power over himself. God has other plans for him and condemns to him to stay alive. Written by Gonz30

I'm an Old Communist Hag

I'm an Old Communist Hag

The film tells the story of a generation that cannot adapt to the reality post-revolution. Nostalgic Emilia tries to keep alive the golden age.