Mircea
Diaconu was born on December 24, 1949 in Vlădeşti, Arges, Romania. Mircea
graduated from Campulung in 1967 and IATC IL Caragiale in Bucharest in 1971. He
debuted in 1970 in the play “Bulandra with Grass Harp” by Truman Capote. His film
debut occurred in 1971 with the film “Nunta de piatra” directed by Dan Pita. In
1972, he was hired by Liviu Ciulei as a member of the theatrical troupe at
Bulandra, where he remained until 1982. He then became an actor at the Nottara
Theatre. He was the first player from Romania who has resigned, becoming a
freelancer in 1990 and then returned to the theater as an employee in 2001. As
manager of the Theatre Nottara he was involved in a scandal of nepotism, as he employed
his wife Diana Lupescu, as the artistic director post degree, and paid and paid
her from theatre funds on contracts involving royalties.
He began his
political career in 2008, when he was elected to the Senate for Argeș County as
a member of the National Liberal Party (PNL). While there, he served on the
culture committee; his term expired after the following election. In May 2012,
he was named Culture Minister in the new Victor Ponta cabinet, but was forced
out of office the following month when the High Court of Cassation and Justice
ruled there was a conflict of interest between his ministerial position and his
managerial role at the theater. He ran again for Parliament in 2014 and was
elected as an independent.
Diaconu
appeared as the character Romulus Brad in three Euro-westerns: “The Prophet,
the Gold and the Transylvanians” (1977), “The Actress, the Dollars and the
Transylvanians” (1978) and “The Oil, the Baby and the Transylvanians” (1979).
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