She started her secondary education in 1948 at the ""Domnița Ileana" High School" (now known as the Mihai Eminescu National College), and upon graduating went on to study Law at the University of Bucharest. However, in 1956, she was expelled and arrested on a political basis, accused of supporting the anti-communist revolt in Budapest. She would only be readmitted in 1962, following a year of unqualified work in a factory. In 1963, she married actor Cosma Brașoveanu and resumed her Law studies, this time in Iași, which she finally finished in 1967, at the University of Bucharest. From 1968, she began working as a lawyer.