Oana Pellea

Romanian-born actress Oana Pellea has won numerous accolades for her theatre and film work. Born in Bucharest in 1962, Oana studied at the Romanian Theatre and Film Academy before going on to star in numerous stage and screen productions. Most recently, Oana won the Theatres' Union of Romania's (UNITER) Best Actress award and was awarded the Romanian Cultural Foundation's Prize for Outstanding International Career. Her film work has included Bogdan Dreyer's "Where the Sun is Cold", as well as films directed by Alexandru Tatos, Dan Pita and Stere Gulea. Oana received numerous international awards for her leading role in Gulea's "State of Fact", including the Best Actress awards at the Geneva Film Festival, the San Marino Political Film Festival and the Golden Eagle International Film Festival in Batumi, Georgia.

Oana's theatre work has also drawn much attention. Notable performances have included the roles of Masha in Chekov's "Three Sisters", Lucius in Shakespeare's "Julius Ceasar" and Maria in Georg Bûchner's "Woyzeck", all of which contributed to her winning the 1996 International Theatre Critics' Award for Best Actress. Other important stage roles have included Julietta in Klaus Mann's "Mephisto", Catarina in Mihai Maniutiu's production of Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew", and Drussila in Camus' "Caligula".

Able to speak Romanian, French, English and Italian, Oana has participated in numerous multilingual productions including the French

• Italian language production of "Jeanne D'Arc - Joan of Arc - Extracts

of a File" and Marc Doré's French-language production "Je m'en vais" in Canada.

Oana has had the honour of representing Romania in several international theatre festivals including the annual Festival of the European Theatres' Union, the KlangBogen Festival in Vienna, the International Francophone Festival in France and the Festival of Americas in Canada.