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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1986-11-07

Place of Birth

Iași, Romania

Olimpia Melinte

Biography

Born on November 7, 1986, in Iasi, Romania, Olimpia Melinte has always wanted to be an actress. Supported by her parents, who understood and encouraged all her dreams, she studied acting in high school and college. She has a master degree in Dramatic Arts from the Arts University "George Enescu" (Iasi). Olimpia has appeared on the stage of the National Theatre in Iasi in many theatre productions and wishes to come back some day in a great Romanian production guided by a young Romanian director. Her first contact with the big screen was the main part she played in the feature film "Cele ce plutesc", directed by Mircea Danieliuc. Her debut film role landed her two nominations at The Gopo Awards 2010 (for the Best Actress category & Young Hope category). She attracted more attention with her next role in Massimiliano & Gianluca de Serio's movie "Sette opere di misericordia", proving she could hold her own across from screen experienced foreign actors. The film also earned high praise from critics, being awarded in film festivals like Locarno, Annecy, Vilerupt and Marrakech, and brought her an acting award at the Bobbio Film Festival in Italy. She worked with the young and talented Romanian director Luiza Parvu for her short movies Draft &, My Baby and, recently, A New World, with Florin Piersic Jr. for his feature "Killing Time" and also appeared in Dan Chisu's comedy "Bucuresti NonStop" Olimpia starred alongside Antonio de la Torre in the movie "Canibal", directed by Manuel Martín Cuenca, well received by audience and critics at the 2013 editions of the films festivals in Toronto, San Sebastian, Torino etc.

Known for

Cannibal

Cannibal

Carlos is a respectable man, the most prestigious tailor in Granada, Spain. His life is reduced to work and his main hobby is eating; but not just anything.

Vlad

Vlad

Adrian, a young man who was unjustly jailed after his friends betrayed him during a heist, gets the chance at a new life, guided by Caesar, his mentor.

Harley and the Davidsons

Harley and the Davidsons

Based on a true story, "Harley and the Davidsons" charts the birth of this iconic bike during a time of great social and technological change beginning at the turn of the 20th century.

Miss Sueño

Miss Sueño

Roxana is about to leave Romania and settle down in Madrid, Spain. Helped by Dan and his wife, Alina, she will soon find a job there and start a new life.

The (Silent) War

The (Silent) War

Northern Spain, October 1944. Several groups of guerrilla fighters, former Republican soldiers exiled in France after the end of the Spanish Civil War, infiltrate the country in order to provoke a popular uprising against General Franco's dictatorship.

#Selfie 69

#Selfie 69

Your best friends are also the friends who'll make you do the stupidest things. After parting hardcore, Roxi, Yasmine and Ana meet in a bet that will change their lives: Who gets married first in three days?

Etiology of a Crime

Etiology of a Crime

Two couples, very close friends, wonderful doctors and architects, people who make decisions for others in decisive problems on a daily basis, live a life of prosperity, and everything seems to feel like a paradise to them. The normal coexists with the pathological. Someone wants more. Passion ravages. Sometimes the road to crime is very simple, just a step. Almost inexplicable to many. A clear view of a world, an above average class, with a seemingly successful and happy existence.

Overexposure

Overexposure

The stability of Corina and Stefan's relationship is put to the test when he feels ready to become a father and she undergoes a major career change.

It Takes Two to Fence

It Takes Two to Fence

Alex, a fencing champion turned coach, falls in love with his first student, Anda. Mircea, Anda's lover, who is also a fencer at the same club, witnesses the bond between them growing

Seven Acts of Mercy

Seven Acts of Mercy

Luminita, a young illegal immigrant living on the edge of a shanty town, has hatched a plan to get herself out of her predicament. To carry it through she bumps into Antonio, a sick and mysterious old man. The clash between the two of them is unavoidable and harsh, and leads to unforeseeable consequences…

Floating Things

Floating Things

While working in Europe, Avram comes to realize that Italians are paying good money for trained dogs that can protect them from the waves of immigrants. That's Avram's big-time idea: he returns to Romania to start breeding watch dogs which he can later export to Italy. As it happens, he settles next to a camp of immigrants recently sent back from Rome. Thus, the Italian tension is willy-nilly reenacted on the banks of the Danube. Avram's life gets complicated. He starts having an affair with his own daughter in law, lands in conflict with his ex-immigrant neighbors and his life is literally under threat. The film ends with an unpredictable situation.

Selfie

Selfie

Yasmine , Roxi and Ana run away to the seaside two days before their finals to have the time of their lives.

Yet to Rule

Yet to Rule

A surrealist drama about a 40-year-old criminal court judge with a dying father, an unhappy marriage and petty cases to solve - shown as struggle between ANDI, the animal within, and K, his rational side.

The Chosen One

The Chosen One

A former political police agent that has left communist Romania decades ago in search of freedom has to go back to find it.

Wise Guys

Wise Guys

With their jobs on the line, three bumbling cops desperately try to take down a ruthless drug lord — and their longtime nemesis — by any means necessary.