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carmen tănase

carmen tanase -lrb- born january 18 , 1961 -rrb- is a romanian actress .
after graduating the drama and film institute from bucharest , in 1984 , she joined the company of `` vasile alecsandri '' national theatre in iaşi -lrb- between 1984-1990 -rrb- and then moved back to the capital city of romania .
since 1990 , she is a member of the odeon theatre company from bucharest .
as a student , she played in dostoevsky 's `` the possessed '' -lrb- a dramatization of the great russian novel -rrb- , in john steinbeck 's `` sweet thursday '' , in `` butterflies , butterflies '' by the italian playwright aldo nicolaj -lrb- at the very small theatre in bucharest , having the legendary romanian actress olga tudorache and radu duda , the would-be prince of hohenzollern-veringen , as partners -rrb- etc. .
following the fall of the romanian communist regime , in 1989 -lrb- the end of nicolae ceauşescu 's dictatorship -rrb- , she also involved herself in the independent artistic movements that flourished after these events .
she toured the world with radu duda , the two of them playing in `` a report to an academy '' , the adaptation of a short story by franz kafka , directed by cristina iovita -lrb- the play was produced by the first romanian independent theatrical group formed after the 1989 revolution -rrb- .
