Mihuț Mariana

About

Mariana Mihuț, born on November 7, 1942, in Chișinău, is one of Romania's most remarkable theater actresses, with an impressive career marked by memorable roles and collaborations with master directors. A graduate of the "I.L. Caragiale" Institute of Theatre and Film Arts in Bucharest in 1964, under the tutelage of professors Pop Marțian and Octavian Cotescu, alongside emblematic colleagues such as Ion Caramitru and Valeria Seciu, she debuted at the Giulești Theatre (now Odeon), then collaborated with theaters like Nottara and Naționalul. Since 1972, she has been a dedicated actress at the Bulandra Theatre, where she played iconic roles such as the Mayor's Daughter in Gogol's "The Government Inspector" (directed by Lucian Pintilie), Eliza Doolittle in G.B. Shaw's "Pygmalion," or Masha in Chekhov's "The Seagull" (directed by Liviu Ciulei), and since 2017, she has also been active at the I.L. Caragiale National Theatre. Her achievements are crowned by multiple UNITER awards, including for female performance in "Merlin" (1991), "The Bear" (1992), "The Buried Child" (1996), "Sorry" (2004), and "The King Dies" (2018), as well as the Excellence Award (1997) and the Lifetime Achievement Award (2017). She collaborated with brilliant directors such as Liviu Ciulei, Lucian Pintilie, Cătălina Buzoianu, Silviu Purcărete, Yuri Kordonskiy, and Andrei and Andreea Grosu, interpreting complex characters by Shakespeare, Chekhov, Brecht, and Ionesco. Her presence extended to film ("The Hangman's Forest", 1965), TV theatre ("A Lost Letter", "Ciuta"), and radio, consolidating a record decorated with the Order "Faithful Service" in the rank of Officer (2000) and the Order of Honour of the Republic of Moldova (2024). Mariana Mihuț's personal life is closely linked to the great actor Victor Rebengiuc, whom she married in 1965 after meeting on the set of the film "The Hanging Forest," forming an iconic couple of Romanian theater and having a son, Tudor Rebenciuc. Her childhood, marked by refuge from Bessarabia due to the war and the absence of her father, a prisoner in Siberia for nine years, cultivated a shyness overcome by her first stage appearances in Pitești, where she dreamed of becoming an actress despite her family's opposition. With an unblemished stage vitality, she remains a symbol of Romanian theater, admired for the depth of her interpretations and her lifelong dedication to art.