---
name: "Maria Popistașu"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/maria-popistasu"
fi1m_id: "maria-popistasu"
imdb_id: "nm1574827"
tmdb_id: 94249
wikidata_id: "Q433359"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "21 January 1980"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T14:03:22.611441+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."
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# Maria Popistașu

## Identity

Maria Popistașu

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/maria-popistasu
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** maria-popistasu
- **IMDb ID:** nm1574827
- **TMDB ID:** 94249
- **Wikidata ID:** Q433359
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Popista%C8%99u, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q433359, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1574827/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/94249

Actor. Born 21 January 1980 in Bukarest, Romania.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 21 January 1980, Bukarest, Romania
- **Also known as:** Alina-Maria Popistașu
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Popista%C8%99u, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q433359, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1574827/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/94249

## Biography

Maria Popistașu is a Romanian actress. Born Alina-Maria Popistașu on 21 January 1980 in Bucharest, she graduated from the Nicolae Tonitza Art High School in 1998 and from the acting department of the National University of Theatre and Film (UNATC) in Bucharest in 2002. While a student she collaborated with the National Theatre Bucharest for three years.

Her screen career began in 2004 with the role of Lady Marie in the television film *Gunpowder, Treason & Plot*, followed by the part of Vara Visinescu in the miniseries *Sex Traffic*. She received a Gemini Award for best supporting actress for the latter. Subsequent roles include Kiki in *Love Sick* (2006) and Raluca in *Tuesday, After Christmas* (2010). In 2007 she was awarded the EFP Shooting Star at the Berlin International Film Festival. She has also directed and written for film and theatre.

*Sources: ro.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, aarc.ro, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Sex Traffic* (2004), Fi1m 84, as Vara Visinescu — [page](https://film.one/tv/sex-traffic.md)

## Complete filmography (21)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Y* (2026), as Olga · Writer, Director
- *Ink Wash* (2025), as Simona
- *Taxi Drivers* (2023), as Ilinca
- *Întregalde* (2021), as Maria
- *Mia Misses Her Revenge* (2020), as Mother
- *Majority* (2020), as Sonia Diaconescu
- *Heidi* (2019), as Roxi
- *Alice T.* (2019), as Mihaela
- *The Seagull* (2018), as Raluca · Director, Writer
- *Old, Luxurious Flat Located in an Ultra-Central, Desirable Neighborhood* (2016), Actor
- *One Floor Below* (2015), as Laura
- *Family reunion* (2012), as The sister in law
- *Promising the Moon* (2011), as Dace Kalnins
- *Tuesday, After Christmas* (2010), as Raluca
- *Midnight Man* (2008), series, as Kirsta
- *My Mother, My Bride And I* (2008), as Irina
- *A Perfect Match* (2007), as Alina
- *Love Sick* (2006), as Kiki
- *Crash Test Dummies* (2005), as Ana
- *Sex Traffic* (2004), series, as Vara Visinescu — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/sex-traffic.md)
- *Gunpowder, Treason & Plot* (2004), series, as Lady Marie

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