Olimpia Melinte

Olimpia Melinte is a Romanian actress who studied acting in high school and college and earned a master's degree in Dramatic Arts from the Arts University George Enescu in Iasi. She performed at the National Theatre in Iasi. Her first screen role, the lead in Mircea Danieliuc's Cele ce plutesc, brought her two nominations at the 2010 Gopo Awards, for Best Actress and Young Hope. She gained wider notice with Massimiliano and Gianluca de Serio's Sette opere di misericordia, which critics praised and which was honored at Locarno, Annecy, Vilerupt and Marrakech; her performance earned a prize at Italy's Bobbio Film Festival. She also appeared in Luiza Parvu's short films Draft &, My Baby and A New World, and in Florin Piersic Jr.'s Killing Time. She acted in Dan Chisu's comedy Bucharest Non Stop (2015) and starred with Antonio de la Torre in Manuel Martín Cuenca's Cannibal (2013), well received at the Toronto, San Sebastian and Torino film festivals.