Ingrid Bisu

Ingrid Bisu is a Romanian and American actress, producer, and screenwriter who grew up in Bucharest's German community and began her career as a teenager with a magazine photoshoot and a mobile phone commercial. She made her acting debut in the Romanian television series Marriage of Probation, played the lead in the 2006 drama A World of Pain, and was cast by Cristian Mungiu in a segment of Tales from the Golden Age, which screened at Cannes in 2009. After studying at Bucharest's Hyperion Academy of Dramatic Arts, she appeared in Outbound (2011) and I'm an Old Communist Hag (2013), as well as Dracula: The Dark Prince (2013) and The Zero Theorem (2013). She is best known for playing Anca in Toni Erdmann (2016), and she later co-starred in The Nun (2018) and co-wrote, executive produced, and appeared in Malignant (2021).