--- name: "Anamaria Marinca" canonical: "https://film.one/person/anamaria-marinca" fi1m_id: "anamaria-marinca" imdb_id: "nm1671512" tmdb_id: 20699 wikidata_id: "Q269258" roles: ["Actor"] born: "1 April 1978" reviewed_on_fi1m: 6 average_fi1m_score: 76 average_as: "actor" average_over: 6 updated: "2026-10-07T15:16:46.522947+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Anamaria Marinca ## Identity Anamaria Marinca - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/anamaria-marinca - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** anamaria-marinca - **IMDb ID:** nm1671512 - **TMDB ID:** 20699 - **Wikidata ID:** Q269258 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anamaria_Marinca, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q269258, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1671512/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20699 Actor. Born 1 April 1978 in Iasi, Romania. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 1 April 1978, Iasi, Romania - **Active:** 2004–present - **Also known as:** 아나마리아 마린차 - **Average Fi1m score:** 76, as actor, over 6 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 82 (3), 2010s 71 (2), 2020s 70 (1) - **Fi1m against the critics:** 76 to 74 across 4 titles - **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 4 at 60–79, 0 under 60 - **Lead roles:** 1 of 6 acting credits billed first or second - **Genres:** Drama 4, Action 2, Crime 2, Horror 1, Mystery 1, Science Fiction 1 - **Screen time:** 7 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $216m across 4 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anamaria_Marinca, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q269258, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1671512/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20699 ## Streaming the US now - **Amazon Prime Video:** [*4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days*](https://film.one/film/4-months-3-weeks-and-2-days.md) (91), [*The Girl with All the Gifts*](https://film.one/film/the-girl-with-all-the-gifts.md) (75) - **Apple TV:** [*The Chelsea Detective*](https://film.one/tv/the-chelsea-detective.md) (70) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Anamaria Marinca > Anamaria Marinca makes resourcefulness look like hard work, with each reply requiring thought and effort. Her performance in Cristian Mungiu’s *4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days* gives us good reason to seek her out. Watch Anamaria Marinca keep a conversation going in *4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days* (2007). As Otilia, she has to ask for help, and Marinca makes us see how carefully the request must be made. Nothing about her resourcefulness suggests that she expects things to turn out well. We were frightened by the effort in those exchanges, because she makes even an ordinary reply feel like something she cannot afford to get wrong. She holds our attention through the thinking as much as through whatever she decides to say. That performance was her feature-film debut, following her television breakthrough in *Sex Traffic* (2004). Her subsequent work has taken her through Romanian and European independent cinema, international features and television. The science fiction of *Europa Report* (2013) sits alongside the war film *Fury* (2014) and the horror-drama *You Won’t Be Alone* (2022). Across such changes of setting, she is repeatedly cast as resourceful women facing a crisis. What makes that casting interesting is how little she needs to announce their intelligence. Her particular skill with long takes and sparse dialogue suits this sort of drama. Even when Otilia has little freedom to act, Marinca gives us something to watch in the effort of deciding how to proceed. She must make the character capable without making her difficulties look manageable, and she does it by refusing an easy show of confidence. Helping a friend takes concentration, and Marinca lets us see how much. It is enough to keep us watching for the next practical task, however small. Our reservation about *4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days* is how insistently Mungiu keeps the pressure on. His prolonged attention to distress sometimes feels excessive, and the film gives us few chances to relax. Yet Marinca keeps Otilia’s immediate needs clear enough that the severity does not become the only thing we notice. We would welcome more leading parts that let her show such close attention to other people without quite so much suffering. Start with this performance; just do not expect a restful evening. ## Biography Anamaria Marinca is a Romanian actress. She was born on 1 April 1978 in Iași and graduated from the University of Fine Arts, Music and Drama "George Enescu" in Iași. Marinca made her screen debut in the 2004 television film *Sex Traffic*, for which she won the BAFTA Television Award for Best Actress. She is also known for her role as Otilia in *4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days* (2007). Her other film credits include *Europa Report* (2013), *Fury* (2014), *Ghost in the Shell* (2017) and *The Old Guard* (2020). She has appeared in television series including *Doctor Who* and *Invasion*. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (6) - *The Chelsea Detective* (2022), Fi1m 70, as Astrid Fischer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-chelsea-detective.md) - *The Girl with All the Gifts* (2016), Fi1m 75, as Dr. Selkirk — [page](https://film.one/film/the-girl-with-all-the-gifts.md) - *Fury* (2014), Fi1m 67, as Irma — [page](https://film.one/film/fury-2014.md) - *Five Minutes of Heaven* (2009), Fi1m 72, as Vika — [page](https://film.one/film/five-minutes-of-heaven.md) - *4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days* (2007), Fi1m 91, as Otilia — [page](https://film.one/film/4-months-3-weeks-and-2-days.md) - *Sex Traffic* (2004), Fi1m 84, as Elena Visinescu — [page](https://film.one/tv/sex-traffic.md) ## Complete filmography (39) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Housekeeping for Beginners* (2024), as Dita - *Deadline* (2022), series, as Mrs. Molnar - *You Won't Be Alone* (2022), as Maria - *The Chelsea Detective* (2022), series, as Astrid Fischer — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-chelsea-detective.md) - *Invasion* (2021), series, as Dr. Chapman - *The Bike Thief* (2020), as Elena - *The Old Guard* (2020), as Dr. Meta Kozak - *Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey* (2018), as Penelope - *Nico, 1988* (2017), as Sylvia - *Ghost in the Shell* (2017), as Dr. Dahlin - *Maigret's Dead Man* (2016), as 玛丽亚 - *Mars* (2016), series, as Marta Kamen - *The Girl with All the Gifts* (2016), as Dr. Selkirk — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/the-girl-with-all-the-gifts.md) - *River* (2015), series, as Ema - *Florida* (2015), as Ivona - *Fury* (2014), as Irma — Fi1m 67, [page](https://film.one/film/fury-2014.md) - *Keeping Up with the Joneses* (2013), as Elena - *Europa Report* (2013), as Rosa Dasque - *The Politician's Husband* (2013), series, as Dita Kowalski - *Un nuage dans un verre d'eau* (2012), as Anna - *Sensorium Tests* (2012), as Test Subject - *I Missed My Mother's Funeral* (2012), as Woman - *Perfect Sense* (2011), as Street Performer - *Look, Stranger* (2010), Actor - *The Sleeping Beauty* (2010), as Fiancee - *The Pizza Miracle* (2010), as The Madonna of the Eels - *The Aviatrix of Kazbek* (2010), as the Aviatrix of Kazbek - *Sleep with Me* (2009), as Sylvie - *Storm* (2009), as Mira Arendt - *The Countess* (2009), as Darvulia - *Five Minutes of Heaven* (2009), as Vika — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/five-minutes-of-heaven.md) - *Boogie* (2008), as Smaranda Ciocazanu - *The Last Enemy* (2008), series, as Yasim Anwar - *Youth Without Youth* (2007), as Hotel Receptionist, Reception Desk Woman - *4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days* (2007), as Otilia — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/film/4-months-3-weeks-and-2-days.md) - *Doctor Who* (2005), series, as Darla — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/doctor-who-2005.md) - *Sex Traffic* (2004), series, as Elena Visinescu — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/sex-traffic.md) - *Philanthropy* (2002), as Reporter - *Midsomer Murders* (1997), series, as Petra Antonescu — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/tv/midsomer-murders.md) ## Gallery - ![Romanian actress Anamaria Marinca at the Crossing Europe film festival in Linz 2024](https://film.one/media/person/99665/gallery-b637446c00b8.jpg) Romanian actress Anamaria Marinca at the Crossing Europe film festival in Linz 2024 — Bernhard Holub, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Crossing_Europe_2024_Opening_Anamaria_Marinca_BHO-3501.jpg/1280px-Crossing_Europe_2024_Opening_Anamaria_Marinca_BHO-3501.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Romanian actress Anamaria Marinca at the Crossing Europe film festival in Linz 2024](https://film.one/media/person/99665/gallery-6b1f804fc17a.jpg) Romanian actress Anamaria Marinca at the Crossing Europe film festival in Linz 2024 — Bernhard Holub, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Crossing_Europe_2024_Opening_Anamaria_Marinca_BHO-3501_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Crossing_Europe_2024_Opening_Anamaria_Marinca_BHO-3501_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Anamaria Marinca at the Crossing Europe film festival in Linz 2025](https://film.one/media/person/99665/gallery-f2d0639a65e2.jpg) Anamaria Marinca at the Crossing Europe film festival in Linz 2025 — Bernhard Holub, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Crossing_Europe_2025_Anamaria_Marinca_BHO-0769.jpg/1280px-Crossing_Europe_2025_Anamaria_Marinca_BHO-0769.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Anamaria Marinca](https://film.one/media/person/99665/gallery-b398a8099ffd.jpg) Anamaria Marinca — Bernhard Holub, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Crossing_Europe_2025_Anamaria_Marinca_BHO-0783.jpg/1280px-Crossing_Europe_2025_Anamaria_Marinca_BHO-0783.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Anamaria Marinca](https://film.one/media/person/99665/gallery-0a1be425a3c9.jpg) Anamaria Marinca — Image via TMDB - ![Anamaria Marinca](https://film.one/media/person/99665/gallery-b4cd6945dde8.jpg) Anamaria Marinca — Image via TMDB - ![Anamaria Marinca, Bogdan Mureșanu, Klaudiusz Chrostowski and Guoda Vaitiekutė at the Crossing Europe film festival in Linz 2025](https://film.one/media/person/99665/gallery-f216092ea80f.jpg) Anamaria Marinca, Bogdan Mureșanu, Klaudiusz Chrostowski and Guoda Vaitiekutė at the Crossing Europe film festival in Linz 2025 — Bernhard Holub, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Crossing_Europe_2025_Bogdan_Mure%C8%99anu_with_jury_BHO-0766.jpg/1280px-Crossing_Europe_2025_Bogdan_Mure%C8%99anu_with_jury_BHO-0766.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) ## Awards ### Other awards — 0 won, 1 nominated - European Film Award for Best Actress 2007: European Film Award for Best Actress (nominated), for *4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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