# Anamaria Marinca

Anamaria Marinca (born 1 April 1978) is a Romanian actress. She made her screen debut with the Channel 4 film Sex Traffic, for which she won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress. Marinca is also known for her performance in 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, earning several awards for her performance, and was nominated for the European Film Award for Best Actress, London Film Critics Circle Award for Actress of the Year, Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress and National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress. In 2008, at the 58th Berlin International Film Festival, she was presented the Shooting Stars Award by the European Film Promotion.

## Life and career

Marinca was born in Iași, Romania. She grew up with a strong foundation in the arts. Her mother was a classically trained violinist while her father was a theatre professor at the university level. She studied the violin all throughout her childhood when, at around the age of seven, she had announced she wanted to become an actress.
Marinca graduated from the University of Fine Arts, Music and Drama "George Enescu" in Iași.
In 2005, she won three Best Actress Awards (the BAFTA Television Awards, the Royal Television Society Award and the 'Golden Nymph' at 45th Festival de Télévision de Monte Carlo) for her role in Sex Traffic, a CBC/Channel 4 drama about human trafficking. As well as appearing on stage in Romanian theatre productions, she also acted in Measure for Measure at the National Theatre in London.
In 2007, she starred in the Romanian film 4 luni, 3 săptămâni și 2 zile (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days) by Cristian Mungiu, which won the Palme d'Or at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, and two other awards (the Cinema Prize of the French National Education System and the FIPRESCI Prize). She also appeared in the Francis Ford Coppola film Youth Without Youth. In 2008, she appeared as Yasim Anwar in the BBC 5-episode miniseries The Last Enemy. Marinca appeared in the Romanian drama Boogie and Oliver Hirschbiegel's acclaimed Five Minutes of Heaven. She later had a prominent role in the 2014 film Fury, in which she played a German woman named Irma who meets up with an American tank crew during World War II. She is a regular in the Welsh TV detective series Hinterland.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2007 | 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days | Otilia Mihărtescu | Romanian: 4 luni, 3 săptămâni și 2 zile |
| 2007 | Youth Without Youth | Hotel Receptionist | |
| 2008 | Boogie | Smaranda Ciocăzanu | Also released as Summer Holiday |
| 2009 | Five Minutes of Heaven | Vika | |
| 2009 | Storm | Mira Arendt | |
| 2009 | The Countess | Anna Darvulia | |
| 2010 | The Aviatrix of Kazbek | The Aviatrix of Kazbek | Dutch: De vliegenierster van Kazbek |
| 2010 | The Pizza Miracle | The Madonna of the Eels | Short film |
| 2010 | Look, Stranger | Anna | |
| 2011 | Perfect Sense | Street performer | |
| 2011 | Ouroboros | Eva | Short film |
| 2012 | A Cloud in a Glass of Water | Anna | French: Un Nuage Dans Un Verre D'Eau |
| 2013 | Europa Report | Rosa Dasque | |
| 2014 | Fury | Irma | |
| 2015 | Floride | Ivona | Also released under English title Florida |
| 2016 | The Girl with All the Gifts | Dr. Jean Selkirk | |
| 2017 | Ghost in the Shell | Dr Dahlin | |
| 2017 | Nico, 1988 | Sylvia | |
| 2020 | The Old Guard | Dr. Meta Kozak | |
| 2020 | The Bike Thief | Elena | |
| 2022 | You Won't Be Alone | Maria | |
| 2023 | Housekeeping For Beginners | Dita | Macedonian: Домаќинство за почетници |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2004 | Sex Traffic | Elena Visinescu | Miniseries; 2 of 2 episodes, Main Role |
| 2006 | Hotel Babylon | Natasha | TV Series; 1 episode: (S01 Ep03) |
| 2008 | The Last Enemy | Yasim Anwar | Miniseries; 5 of 5 episodes |
| 2009 | Sleep with Me | Sylvie | Television film |
| 2010 | Holby City | Mother | TV series; 2 episodes: My No. 1 Fan (S13 Ep05) & The Lying Kind (S13 Ep09) |
| 2011 | Holby City | Nadiya Tereschenko | TV series; 1 episode: Wise Men (S14 Ep11) |
| 2012 | Wallander | Inese | TV series; 1 episode: The Dogs of Riga (S03 Ep01) |
| 2012 | Doctor Who | Darla von Karlsen | TV series; 1 episode: Asylum of the Daleks (S07 Ep01) |
| 2013 | The Politician's Husband | Dita | Miniseries; 3 of 5 episodes (Parts 1, 2, & 3) |
| 2013–2015 | Hinterland | Meg Mathias | TV series; 4 episodes: In the Dead of Night - Part 1 (S02 Ep01), In the Dead of Night - Part 2 (S02 Ep02), Ceredigion - Part 1 (S02 Ep03), & Ceredigion - Part 2 (S02 Ep04) |
| 2014 | The Missing | Rini Dalca | TV series; 3 episodes: Gone Fishing (S01 Ep04), Molly (S01 Ep05), & Till Death (S01 Ep08) |
| 2015 | River | Ema | Miniseries; 1 of 6 episodes (Part 5) |
| 2016-2018 | Mars | Marta Kamen | TV series; 12 episodes, regular |
| 2017 | Inspector George Gently | Eve Liddell | TV series; 1 Episode: Gently Liberated (S08 Ep01) |
| 2018 | Midsomer Murders | Petra Antonescu | TV Series; 1 episode: Death by Persuasion (S19 Ep05) |
| 2019 | Tin Star | Sarah Nickel | TV series; 8 episodes, Season 2 regular |
| 2019-2021 | Temple | Suzanna | TV series; 9 episode, recurring role |
| 2022 | The Chelsea Detective | Astrid Fischer | TV series; 4 episodes: The Wages of Sin (S01 Ep01), Mrs Romano (S01 Ep02), The Gentle Giant (S01 Ep03), & A Chelsea Education (S01 Ep04) |

## Stage credits

| Title | Year | Role | Production | Notes |
| Measure for Measure | 2006 | Mariana | National Theatre, London | |
| 4:48 Psychosis | 2009 | | Young Vic Theatre, London. | Sarah Kane's final play, directed by Christian Benedetti |
| Routes | 2013 | Anka | Royal Court Theatre | |

## Radio credits

| Title | Year | Role | Production | Notes |
| Burying the Typewriter | 2012 | narrator | Sweet Talk Productions | BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week |
| Angielski | 2015 | narrator | Sweet Talk Productions | BBC Radio 4 series |
| Barbeque 67: The Original Summer of Love | 2022 | Tereza | International Arts Partnership | BBC Radio 4 play |

## Awards and nominations

| Year | Award | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 2005 | BAFTA Award | Best Actress | Sex Traffic | Won |
| 2005 | Golden Nymph Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Miniseries | Sex Traffic | Won |
| 2005 | Gemini Award | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Program or Miniseries | Sex Traffic | Nominated |
| 2005 | Royal Television Society Award | Best Actor – Female | Sex Traffic | Won |
| 2008 | European Film Award | Best Actress | 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days | Nominated |
| 2008 | Gopo Awards | Best Actress in a Leading Role | 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days | Won |
| 2008 | International Cinephile Society Award | Best Actress | 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days | Won |
| 2008 | London Film Critics Circle Award | Actress of the Year | 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days | Nominated |
| 2008 | Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award | Best Actress | 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days | Runner-up |
| 2008 | National Society of Film Critics Award | Best Actress | 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days | Nominated |
| 2008 | Palm Springs International Film Festival Award | Best Actress (shared with Laura Vasiliu) | 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days | Won |
| 2008 | Stockholm Film Festival Award | Best Actress | 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days | Won |
| 2008 | Village Voice Film Poll | Best Actress | 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days | Won |
| 2008 | Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award | Best Actress | 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days | Nominated |
| 2009 | Gopo Awards | Best Actress in a Leading Role | Boogie | Won |
| 2009 | Romanian Filmmakers Union Award | Best Actress | Boogie | Won |