Olimpia Melinte: ”For me, imagination is the most precious tool for an actor”
Olimpia Melinte is a popular name among a broad audience due to her role in PRO TV hit series Vlad, but besides playing Eliza and becoming a TV star, she is a talented film actress, who discovered success during her university years, when she was nominated for two GOPO Awards (Young hope & Best Actress in a leading role) for Mircea Danieluc's film - Floating Things. She has studied Acting at the University of Arts George Enescu, in Iasi and soon after, she settled in Bucharest, where she has worked with various directors - from acclaimed ones, such as Cristina Iacob, Dan Chisu or Anca Damian, to young directors, mostly debutants. She's one of the few Romanian actresses internationally acclaimed, having received a GOYA Nomination and an Award from The Spanish Actors' Union for her role in Canibal (D: Manuel Martin Cuenca).
Film producer and founder of ADFR, she dreamed since she was little of having a magazine one day. Alongside her job as editor-in-chief, she writes the interview of the month. She loves animals, jazz music and films festivals.
