Mircea Diaconu

Biography

Born in Vlădești, Argeș County, he graduated high school in Câmpulung 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 Pița's Nunta de piatră (1972); he would later appear in the same director's Filip cel Bun (1975). Other directors with whom he has worked include Alexandru Tatos (Mere roșii, 1975; Secvențe, 1982; and Secretul armei secrete, 1988), Virgil Calotescu (Buletin de București, 1982; and Căsătorie cu repetiție, 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 ce trag clopotele, Mitică?) and in theater: Gogol's The Government Inspector at Bulandra, and Shakespeare's As You Like It at the Nottara Theater. Liviu Ciulei hired him at Bulandra in 1972, and he remained there for a decade, before moving on to Nottara. At Bulandra, he appeared in Twelfth Night and The Tempest, both under Ciulei's direction; and in Marin Sorescu's Răceala, directed by Dan Micu. At Nottara, he appeared in Alexander Ostrovsky's The Forest; Ultimul bal, after Liviu Rebreanu's Forest of the Hanged; and Mihai Ispirescu's Într-o dimineață. He became the director of Nottara Theater in 2004, working as such until his resignation in 2011.

Most Known For

Philanthropy

as Ovidiu Gorea

Poker

as Calabrezu

One-Day Adventures

Love Sick

as Mr. Dragnea

Kino Caravan

as Tanasie

Ticăloșii

as Mircea Prejbeanu

The Prophet, the Gold, and the Transylvanians

as Romulus Brad

Happy End

The Secret of the Secret Weapon

as Zmeul Zmeilor

Videograms of a Revolution

as himself (archive footage)

Dănilă Prepeleac

as Dănilă Prepeleac

Horea

as Candrea Alexa Kendy

Sequences...

as motel keeper

Asphalt Tango

as Andrei

The Way I Spent the End of the World

as Grigore Matei

A Smile Of The Sun

as Împăratul

The Telephone

as Radu

Reach for the Sky

as Mircea

Operation 'The Bus'

The Oil, the Baby and the Transylvanians

as Romulus Brad