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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1969-07-26

Place of Birth

Sighişoara, Mureș, Romania

Ioana Abur

Biography

Ioana Abur (born July 26, 1969, in Sighișoara, Mureș, Romania) is a Romanian film and theatre actress who graduated from the University of Theatrical Arts and Cinematography in Bucharest in 1994. She made her first film role at age 18 in Licenii (1987, The Graduates), and has been a permanent ensemble member of the Teatrul Metropolis in Bucharest. She is the mother of director Teona Glugotić. Her most notable film credits include Katia in Hellraiser: Deader (2005), a Front Desk Sister in Mirrors (2008), a Woman with Doll in Adam Resurrected (2008, with Nick Nolte and Matthew Goode), Mauzi Anies in Dolina (2007), Injured Dog Owner in Pu-239 (2006), Gabi in The Japanese Dog (2013, 80% on Rotten Tomatoes), Dora in Zavera (2019), Simion's Wife in Watcher (2022), Mihaela in Ana, My Love (2017, directed by Călin Peter Netzer), and Nicole's Mother in The Crucifixion (2017). On television she is best known as Ana Maria Dincă in Adela (2021–2022, 52 episodes) and Elena Maxim in Lia – Sotia sotului meu (2023, 46 episodes), with earlier credits in Sherlock: Case of Evil (2002, as Victoria) and Subspecies 4: Bloodstorm (1998, as Ana Lazar).

Known for

Mirrors

Mirrors

An ex-cop and his family are the target of an evil force that is using mirrors as a gateway into their home.

Hellraiser: Deader

Hellraiser: Deader

When a tough-as-nails reporter is lead to a mysterious cult and the evil Pinhead, any moment could be her last.

Watcher

Watcher

As a serial killer stalks the city, Julia — a young actress who just moved to town with her husband — notices a mysterious stranger watching her from across the street.

Lavender-scented destinies

Lavender-scented destinies

Romanian drama that continues Iubire cu parfum de lavanda, following the characters as love, secrets, and difficult choices reshape their destinies.

Adela

Adela

Adela a new fiction series produced by Ruxandra Ion and Dream Film Production, it is an adaptation of the series O hayat Benim / This is my life, produced by Fox Turcia.

Adela

Adela

Adela a new fiction series produced by Ruxandra Ion and Dream Film Production, it is an adaptation of the series O hayat Benim / This is my life, produced by Fox Turcia.

Lia - My Husband's Wife

Lia - My Husband's Wife

When life throws her a curveball, an aspiring ballerina takes a job at a family estate, where she falls for a man with a secret, complex romantic past.

Magnum Opus

Magnum Opus

The Japanese Dog

The Japanese Dog

After a devastating flood destroys their home, Costache and Maria struggle to rebuild their lives. As family tensions resurface with the return of their son with his Japanese wife and child, Costache faces the challenge of reconnecting across generations.

Catane

Catane

In the remote Romanian village of Catane, a community of villagers, long surviving on disability benefits obtained through ambiguous means, faces exposure when a local inquiry descends. What unfolds is not a story of deception, but of unexpected ingenuity as the villagers craft a disarmingly poetic and humorous response to the absurdities of a broken system. In reinventing their way of life, they reveal not only a means of survival—but a radical model of communal resilience in a fractured world.

Fairy Fever

Fairy Fever

Ileana gives up trying to heal her sleepwalking condition and decides to embrace the sleepwalker inside. With her lover, Lia, as a guide, she stumbles upon a fairytale ending.

Art

Art

A 14-year-old girl auditions for a film role as an abused sex worker, and the director tries to convince her mother of the artistic rationale behind the provocative part.

Sherlock: Case of Evil

Sherlock: Case of Evil

Early in his crime-solving career, Sherlock Holmes attempts to prevent Moriarty from cornering the heroin market.

Adam Resurrected

Adam Resurrected

After again attempting to commit murder, a Jewish man with a mysterious past and extraordinary intelligence, charisma, and body control returns to an insane asylum, where he makes a startling discovery.

Pu-239

Pu-239

A worker at a Russian nuclear facility gets exposed to a lethal dose of radiation. In order to provide for his family, he steals some plutonium and sets out to sell it on Moscow's black market with the help of an incompetent criminal.