Actress
Mădălina Constantin, actress: “In Paris I learned to wash away all preconceptions.”
We met Mădălina Constantin in the foyer of the La Colline Theater in Paris, one of the 5 national theaters in France. She was greeting the people working in the theater and she led us through the back rooms of the theater as if it was her home.
Anamaria Vartolomei, actress: “I could have chosen a French name, Annemarie, but I am Anamaria, I don’t need to change.”
On a spring day, on April 9th, Anamaria was born, the first child of a Romanian couple. Like more than 2 million other Romanians, the young parents, driven by the desire to give their daughter a better life, went to work abroad when Anamaria was merely 2 years old.
Anamaria Vartolomei, Romanian born actress, was named one of the year’s revelations by the César Academy.
Anamaria Vartolomei is one of the tens of thousands of romanian children whose parents wished a better life for them and left to work abroad. Ana was born in a village in Bacau and has started over in a foreign country when she was only 6 years old. This turned out to be the opportunity of her life.